DATA DEVOLUTION IN BRISTOL Bristol City Council 21/09/2015

3 PART 1 – THE WHY? DEFINING DATA DEVOLUTION We started by defining what we mean by Data Devolution: Data devolution is having the powers to access and control public data sources at a local authority level in order to create, federate, merge and share purposeful and timely data sets Today, the national government there has been a successful large- scale coordinated push towards ‘Open Data’ 1. However, the approach is binary: the data is either open to all (open-data), or private (contained within the department, agency – including commercial companies such as utilities – or an individual). There is no defined role or right for cities for the information they need to make optimal decisions across their local region 2. 1 With 25,000 data sets related to national departments and agencies (e.g. Met office, DEFRA, OS, and BGS). Local government is doing the same: Bristol has already opened up over 200 data sets related to city services and facilities. 2 The data tends to be siloed. It has different levels of access, timing, granularity, and anonymity. There are very few examples of service innovation driven by integration of data across silos to make better decisions for the city as a whole.

4 PART 1 – THE WHY? POWERS FOR CITIES The establishment of specific powers for cities to access the data would enable the following objectives: Making better decisions - use the availability of more comprehensive data to ensure joined-up decision making across the city to reduce cost and improve services To create the Evidence Base – Providing the data to support the agreed metrics and evidence-base of performance for the devolution deal. To facilitate growth through new business models and new forms of cross-organisational and cross-sectoral collaboration across businesses, social entrepreneurs and individual citizens.

5 PART 2 – THE WHAT? BETTER DECISION MAKING We explored the ability for better decision making within the city across three application areas - (Infrastructure, Social & Health, Environmental and other). Each of these areas involves significant investment and service delivery, although they have different impact and timing on returns.

6 PART 2 – THE WHAT? USE CASES To illustrate the potential of data devolution and understand the requirements, we identified 20 use cases that assume the city has the rights, access, capabilities and controls to integrate city data across National, Local, Commercial data sets to rapidly address local issues in an integrated way to drive better decisions. We then chose 4 use-cases to explore in detail (see detailed Use Cases): 1.Jobs, Skills and Growth Tool 2.Energy and Fuel Poverty 3.Understanding Mobility 4.Troubled Families

7 PART 3 – THE HOW? GOVERNANCE & CAPABILITIES To deliver data devolution there will need to be a specific entity with the following capabilities: Ability to invest in projects and investments Self sustaining to do development, delivery and investment Provide a vehicle for private and public investment Cultural change and citizen engagement Contribute to data policies and planning Report on progress Current contracts with outsourced providers/partners delivering BCC services It will ensure arrangements to build capacity and make use of the Smart City System operating centre including tools to sustainably build on information, assets, data science, and analytical competence in service departments

8 PART 3 – THE HOW? CONTROLS Governance can be done through a trust model based around the citizen’s user experience and ensure proper checks and controls are in place in order for data to be clean, accurate and secure.

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