City Collaboration on Open Data - Experiences from Finland; Matti Saastamoinen

Nordic Edge Expo 2017
Stavanger, Norway, 27.-28.9.2017

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1. City Collaboration on Open Data - Experiences from Finland Nordic Edge Expo 2017 #nordicedge Matti Saastamoinen, @smoinen Development Manager, Open Data Business Tampere
2. Active city collaboration on open data and APIs since 2014
3. The Six City Strategy 2014-2020 Aims to create new know-how, business and jobs in Finland Spearhead projects 1) provide the basis for innovation activities 2) create the framework for the cooperation of the city community HELSINKI | ESPOO | VANTAA | TAMPERE | TURKU | OULU
4. The Six City Strategy 2014-2020 Aims to create new know-how, business and jobs in Finland Spearhead projects 1) provide the basis for innovation activities 2) create the framework for the cooperation of the city community HELSINKI | ESPOO | VANTAA | TAMPERE | TURKU | OULU By utilizing openness, digitalization and partnerships
5. OPEN DATA AND INTERFACES SPEARHEAD PROJECT 2014-2017 PARTNERS City of Tampere (main executor) City of Helsinki City of Espoo City of Vantaa City of Turku City of Oulu Business Tampere (project coordination) Forum Virium Helsinki (API coordination) Turku Science Park Regional Council of Southwest Finland Budget: 7,5 M€ Duration: 3,5 years (July 2014 – December 2017) Partners: 6 cities, 10 partners, ~30 employees
6. What is our goal? Open data Meaningful re-use of data
7. What is our goal? Open data Meaningful re-use of data Raw material Value
8. Open Data and Interfaces Spearhead Project 2014-2017 Common APIs Together, deciding what APIs to implement and what standards and technologies to use. Collaboration on implementation of APIs. Open source reference APIs. Common data models Together, finding the best data standards and models. Harmonizing datasets. Publishing guides and recommendations. Open data platform Together, building a CKAN based, open source data portal to ease publishing, managing and accessing data. More business Together, encouraging and helping companies to utilize published data and APIs. Sparring and trainings for companies. Visibility gain for companies using open data.
9. The Six Cities TOGETHER
11. ”With the help of the Six Cities’ content, we have built a great event management platform that we now license to our customers. Linked Events API is great! I would love other European cities to be in the same forefront. The cities have well understood that their role is not only to create services, but act as enablers for building business platforms and business models.” Mikko Lintunen, founder, Eventz International
12. Should we focus on data instead of open data?
13. Should we focus on data instead of open data? MyData GDPR Data Strategy Data-driven City IoT Open Data Data Analytics Citizen Data 3rd party (external) Data Algorithms Machine Learning AI City (own) Data Data APIs Functional APIs Data-driven Decision Making Real-time