2. City Service Development Kit
Helsinki Region Infoshare
- Opening up public data
Smart
City
Code4Europe
Apps4Finland
Open Cities
3. Helsinki Region Infoshare
• Joint activity of Helsinki metropolitan
area cities (population over 1 million
people) to open data
• Operated by City of Helsinki Urban
Facts and Forum Virium Helsinki
• 2010-2012 pilot phase
• 2013 in adoption phase
• 2014 - business as usual
• Municipalities committing resources
to open data!
4. Helsinki Region Infoshare
www.hri.fi
Open public data from
Helsinki region for everyone
to use without cost
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Currently over 1000 datasets
Open data application showcase
Give feedback & request new
data & discuss
Instructions for public agencies on
how to open data
Useful tips for developers and
other data users
5. Open data themes of HRI
• Statistics and estimates
o Different urban phenomena e.g. living conditions,
economics and well-being, employment and transport
o Environmental and service statistics
• Geospatial data
o Regional division boundaries,
electoral district divisions, buildings, maps
• Other
o Public service points, decision making, budget, public
transportation timetables, snowplowing machine location,
etc.
6. Example of 2013 data themes
• Historical maps and aerial photos
• Geographical data such as addresses and
various administrative boundaries
• Public decision making data (Open Ahjo)
• Issue reporting API to City of Helsinki
(CitySDK project)
• Detailed statistical data about public
services such as schools
• Health and wellbeing related data
Follow: www.facebook.com/helsinkiregioninfoshare and
@HRInfoshare for open data updates
14. ”The noise data set is
a great example of
open data which
could be very
valuable to common
people. For example,
families looking for a
quiet neighborhood in
Helsinki would
probably want to
check local traffic
noise levels before
buying a house.”
-CloudnSci.fi
http://www.hri.fi/fi/sovellukset/tieliikenteen-melutasot-helsingissa/
16. Blindsquare
“Makes you sense what’s around you.
You only need to listen”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VyZGtykNKg
Global data
• Openstreetmap
• Foursquare
Local open data from Helsinki region
• Public transportation data
• Public service points location data
www.blindsquare.com
19. What next?
• Making open data as part of cities’ normal operations
• In Helsinki open data is included in the city strategy
program, IT-strategy and budgeting process
• Let’s show people all the unpublished data there is
• From manually published static data files to application
programming interfaces (API’s) and ”automatic data
publishing”
• Co-operation: across agencies, cities and state locally and
internationally, with technical developers, companies,
schools, research institutions, end users
20. New York City
targets to open
all it’s public
data by 2018
http://www.govtech.com/data/All-NYCData-to-be-Open-by-2018.html (24.9.2013)
21. Inspirational material for
data owners including
practical case examples of
opening and utilizing data.
www.hri.fi/2vuotta
Available in English in November 2013 via
www.hri.fi
23. How to boost open data utilization?
Cities point of view
• Open up more data systematically
• Provide open interfaces (APIs) to the data systems
• Develop interoperability / compatibility of the datasets
• Create user-friendly prototypes to show the usage of the data
• Disseminate best practices
• Better communication, guidance and marketing
24. How to boost open data utilization?
Everyone´s point of view
• Involve different users and communities to work with the data
owners in creating use cases – solutions for real challenges
• Invest in open data ecosystem cultivation
• Organize events, workshops and competitions
• Facilitate access to business funding for data intensive start-ups
and other companies
• Tie to EU and national open government initiatives and projects
25. Winners of the
www.apps4finland.fi
year 2011
apllication• categoryopen data
“Finnish
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championship”
Organized by
Suomen
Verkkodemokratia
seura and Forum
Virium Helsinki
Since 2009
In year 2013 over
100 entries
More than EUR
http://apps4finland.fi/
25.000 worth of
2011/11/22/tamanprice money
vuoden-voittajat-onjulkaistu/
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27. Apps4Finland 2013
Apps4Finland Contest categories
• “Inspire”, “Decipher”, “Impact” and “Enable”
• The competition entries will be evaluated based on their impact potential in improving
the ways open data is used in communication, collaboration and as a source of
inspiration
Problems as possibilities
• “This year’s contest is really about building a mechanism which will allow large-scale
challenges to be broken down into smaller, more easily solvable pieces.”
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More collaboration with Finnish governmental and grass-roots organizations
Extensive network of open data promoters involved in the contest preparations
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30. HEL<3DEV
• Supporting developers who want to utilize APIs and open
data provided by the city.
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Website aimed for developers dev.hel.fi
Workshops
Code4Europe codefellows
Competitions and support programs such as Open
Helsinki - Hack at Home
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38. Open Helsinki
Hack at Home
openhelsinki.hackathome.com
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International concept linking
developers and organizations creating
success stories of open innovation
Mentors give valuable feedback and
support to the developers
Focuses on relevant themes for the
active citizen
Understanding the city, feedback
and tourism
Created applications participate in the
Apps4Finland competition
39. Open Helsinki
Hack at Home
openhelsinki.hackathome.com
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International concept linking
developers and organizations creating
success stories of open innovation
Mentors give valuable feedback and
support to the developers
Focuses on relevant themes for the
active citizen
Created applications participate in the
Apps4Finland competition
40. THANK YOU!
Ville Meloni
ville.meloni@forumvirium.fi
Forum Virium Helsinki
www.hri.fi
http://www.hri.fi/en/about/contact-information/
@HRInfoshare
www.facebook.com/helsinkiregioninfoshare
www.slideshare.net/helsinkiregioninfoshare
44. ”Open
data will bring
the biggest change
in public administration that
I have experienced
during my career”
-Mr. Jussi Pajunen, Mayor of Helsinki
45. Helsinki’s electronic document
management system - Ahjo
• System for preparing
public agendas for
decision making
• City Council, City
Board, City
Departments and their
steering committees
(over 5.000 users)
46. Ahjo is now Open!
• Helsinki’s public agenda and
decision documents as open
data (XML)
• Enables new applications and
services that bring decision
making closer to citizens
See also: City council meetings video API http://open.helsinkikanava.fi/
49. Open Ahjo – Use cases for the data
Make it easier
for citizens, politicians
and civil servants
to have a dialogue
via social media
A:Today we are handling
new bicycle-road case xx-yy-zz
Q: Could you tell me more
about this case?
A: Sure!
Realtime access to local
and relevant decision topics:
”What is being decided
in my neighborhood?”
Encouraging citizen
participation:
”City is building
a new library here in 2016.
I could tell them my ideas on how
to spend the budget”
Helsingin kaupungin aineistopankki/Lauri Mannermaa
51. Ordinary day in the near future
Hmm.. at the moment
they are planning to do some
changes to the land use plan
of this area.. Interesting should I participate?
• Mitä jo on tehty unelman saavuttamiseksi
I see.. This brandnew bicycle
• Mitä seuraavaksi tehtäisiin by the City
corridor was decided x.x.20xx
Council and budget was xx euros..
I´ll send positive feedback!
52. Helsinki Region Infoshare won
100 000 € in the ”Citizens” category
by releasing open data to involve citizens
in decision-making
53. What should we do next?
• Systematically open more data to match with Open Ahjo
• Develop interoperability of the datasets
• Involve various users to work with the City in creating use
cases
• Create user-friendly prototypes that showcase the usage of
the data
• Disseminate our learnings so others can replicate it
