Bristol’s Open Data Journey Kevin O’Malley City Innovation Team Manager kevin.omalley@bristol.gov.uk

Drivers and Opportunities

What about the Council? Reduced expenditure by 25% in the last 3 years and will need to reduce by a further 40% in the next 3 Choice as to whether to manage decline or do something different We choose; To first drive efficiency and then collaborate, generate income, intervene early and become a different kind of organisation A platform that connects the capacity and creativity of the City

The rise of platform organisations “What emerges from the observation of major organisational changes in the last two decades…the crisis of an old, powerful but excessively rigid model associated with the large vertical corporation” “Networks are the fundamental stuff of which new organisations are and will be made. And they are able to form and expand over the main streets and back alleys of the global economy because of their reliance on the information power [data] provided by the new technological paradigm” Manuel Castells – The Rise of the Network Society

Our Open Data Journey

Enable Piloting Socrata City Data Platform - 'try before we buy' to develop our capabilities as intelligent customer Open standards and integration - avoid platforms becoming the new silos Open API for developers to enable use Accept that we will see long term return on investment

Engage Open Data Institute Node and the South West Data Meet-up Group Citizen Sensing Playable City - creating 'the pull'

Encourage Hack days, competitions, challenges with NESTA, ODI, Watershed, Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol Green Capital 2015 Regional partnerships with Bath Hacked, ODI Devon, ODI Hampshire

Four Examples Crocodile - winner of the Green Digital Challenge - app to encourage walking to school Hills are Evil - winner of the REACT open data challenge - prototype accessible route finder Community Energy Manager - winner of NESTA / ODI energy challenge - support neighbourhood retrofit and bulk energy purchase City Radar - winner of Young Rewired State national Festival of Code - smart reporting of problems

Embed Data Dome - real time 360 degree, 3D data visualisation eg city energy use and air quality New Intelligent City Operations Centre The Bristol Brain - city modeling and analytics Bristol Is Open – world’s first Open Programmable City Region

Bristol Is Open Creating a large scale Internet of Things infrastructure - the Open, Programmable City Region

Where next? From the Council as a Platform to the City as a Platform ‘Data Devolution’ - from Government to the City Trust Framework - ‘the Data Commons’ - from the City to Citizens