Presented by Jury Konga, PrincipaleGovFutures Group
Open Government & Intelligent Community
in the Digital Economy
Kingbridge Conference CentreYork Region May 23, 2012.
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Conference Organizer: @N6BizSeries
Hashtags: #Opengov #OpenData #Innovation#DigitalEconomy #ConferenceTag?
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Overview
• Open Government – context & components
• Open Data & Digital Economy
• Intelligent Communities perspective
• Moving the York community forward
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Open Government - A View of Principles
Aggregated view from several sources
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Open Government Continuum- from local to global
Open Government Partnership
Open Canada
Open Ontario
Open YorkVision 2051Component
ON “in development” - Operational in BC
National - Early Stages
Global - Early Stages
Current State
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Municipal Open Government Framework – Beta Version
Original version 2010, updated model 2011.
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/JuryKonga/municipal-open-government-framework-beta-version
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Open Data - Context and Scope
• Open Data is a foundational component for Open Government and focuses on freely making public data available in a usable format for all to re-use and add value for the benefit of citizens and businesses.
Global view of Open Data initiatives
Bottom line -> it’s pervasive & growing
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Open Data - What’s Happening in Ontario
Others in planning stages
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Open Data and the Digital Economy
• Federal government 2010 Digital Economy consultation – 2 of top 3 needs focused on access to data/information
• Value proposition is the use and re-use of the data with a variety of potential business opportunities
• Application development – lots of activity here!
• Data VARs (Value Added Resellers)
• Product and Service providers – e.g. Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS); development tools; professional services
• “The market for mobile apps … its growth will accelerate in the future to reach $ US 35 billion in 2015. It is to be one of the fastest growing segments in the information technology market. “ European Commission Pricing Of Public Sector Information Study, October 2011
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Open Data - the Apps Conte$t$
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Open Data Applications- Inventories & Where Is?
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Tree inventory - coverage of urban forests (City produced via 3rd party)
Heat wave - where’s nearest pool/splash pad (Community group developed)
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Open Data Applications- When is …. ?
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When is …Garbage and recycle?
When is …the next bus?
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Open Data Applications- Community Wellbeing
Dynamic visualization based on neighbourhoods
User control over well-being indicators & weighting
Source: Harvey Low, Project Manager Social Policy, Analysis and Researchhttp://www.toronto.ca/wellbeing/
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Open Data, the Digital Economyand Intelligent Communities
Source: “Intelligent Communities – Platforms for Innovationwww.intelligentcommunity.org/clientuploads/PDFs/WP-Platforms-for-Innovation.pdf
Government Data
Commu-nityData
Science Data
Corporate Data
OPENDATA
Needs &Feeds
&ADVOCACY
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Digital Economy Continuum
Smart Planet
Innovation Nation
Ontario Centres of Excellence
York RegioniCommunity
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Intelligent Communitiesi-Community Open Architecture Model
i-COA®, the Five Layer Intelligent Community Open Architecture® model. Registered by
Hutchison Management International.
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Digital York- an Intelligent Community Hub
Digital York
Local Government
Citizens & Community
Groups
MUSH Organizations
Venture Lab
Other Industry
Organizations
Chambers of Commerce
… some early thinkingon a new non-profit
Provincial Gov’t
Sustained Support?
Federal Gov’t Digital
Economy Action?
COLLABORATION
INNOVATION
AGIL
ITY
INFRASTRU
CTURE
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Collaborate Now
“All of us are smarter than one of us”
“There are more knowledgeable people outside your organization than inside”
Digital York- Collaboration is essential
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Digital York -physical and virtual collaboration
Example shown is a LinkedIn network
Leverage our network of networks
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Digital York- Innovation by Default
• The entire community …government, private sector, NGOs, academia, community groups and citizens need to …
look at existing and new initiatives through an innovation lens
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For the last time, no, I do not know what the ROI is on it!
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Digital York- Agility … need to move Quickly
Federal Digital Economy Strategy Report - Fall of 2012?
=Feds #Fail AgilityOthers on 2nd generation of digital strategies
2010
2011 Agility through
local cooperation and collaboration-> Digital York
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Digital York- need the digital “Big Pipe”
• Government can facilitate …
Private sector needs to step up & invest for the future
• “we don’t have the kind of ultra-bandwidth infrastructure that they do” – “they” being global cities
Bill Hutchison, Chairi-Canada
Image by Jafar Sadik
Image by STN
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Digital York- Why are we doing this …
• i-COA top of the pyramid: Live, Learn, Work, Play
Source: Canadian Wellness IndexSource: Federation of Canadian MunicipalitiesQuality of Life Reporting System
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Digital York- Why are we doing this …
Ultimately, this is why …. a healthy & just society
Images via MS Office
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Digital York- concluding thoughts
• Embrace Open Government & Open Data - it can support Digital York & economic development
• Collaborate Now - community needs to optimize our collective resources to bring Digital York “online” ASAP
• Make Innovation the default – all sectors of the community can contribute
• Agility is an imperative – the local and global knowledge economy has shown that it waits for no one
• Get the Digital “Big Pipe” – high bandwidth is a fundamental piece of the infrastructure for Digital York
• Seize the moment – Digital York, just do it!