Presented by Stuart Lester, Project Manager for Digital Birmingham. Given to the LGA in Leeds on 20 May 2015

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Investing
In your future
#smartbrumStuart Lester
Business Change Manager - Digital Birmingham
stuart.lester@birmingham.gov.uk
Uses of Open Data in Birmingham

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About Digital Birmingham
• Established 2006
• Generate benefits from use of digital technologies for the whole city
• Strategy, projects, engagement
• Lead for the Smart City strategy and supporting Smart City Commission
• Promoting Open Data

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Becoming an "information
first council"
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Data underpins Smart
Data
Smart City Strategies
mobility health green infrastructure
Open Data Policy and Strategy

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Data Release

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Identifying and Classifying data
Moving from "who you know, data as
a by-product" to data-centric -
cultural change in Local Government
How easy to release and what are the benefits?

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Working with IT
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) the
most important acronym you may
never heard of
Legacy systems and outsourced IT
– breaking down the barriers

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Our data story is unfolding
2010 2015 2020
INFORMATION
DATAEXCHANGE
Identify
Data sets
Data audits
Evaluate
platforms
Data release
OD portal
Data catalogue
Citi-Sense
Platform v1.0
Birmingham Civic Dashboard - Proof of Concept
- where we were, what we learned, where we are now
Release of data – formalising the process
- use Birmingham Data Factory, raw usable data

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Engagement

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Internal
Developing skills and
preparing staff to embrace
and make use of the Open
Data movement
Create a data “dossier” to
gain confidence

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External connections
SMEs
Share-PSI
Citizens
Open Data
Groups
Private
sector
partners
Public
sector
partners

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Growing
Birmingham
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Accelerating city outcomes
Economic
prosperity
Stimulate
Enterprise
Sustainable
Growth
Better Quality
Of Life
Civic
Engagement
Health &
Wellbeing
Skills Mobility Energy

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Lessons Learned
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People are key to data
Internally
- gain buy in and trust
- create demand not defence
Externally
- understand the pace of change may be slow
- Is the raw data useful?
- What citizen needs are met?