1. Bristol’s Open Data Journey
Kevin O’Malley
City Innovation Team Manager

2. Drivers and Opportunities

3. 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

4. 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

6. Our Open Data Journey

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

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

13. 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