Talk given on March 19th 2014 at the European Data Forum, Athens. CitySDK is a European Consortium consisting of 23 partners in nine countries, lead by Forum Virium Helsinki, Finland. It runs from January 2012 till June 2014. CitySDK encompasses eight cities and city regions, six private companies, three development and expert organizations, one network organisation and five research institutes. Helping cities to open their data and giving developers the tools they need, the CitySDK aims for a step change in how to deliver services in urban environments. With governments around the world looking at open data as a kick start for their economies, CitySDK provides better and easier ways for the cities throughout the Europe to release their data in a format that is easy for the developers to re-use. Taking the best practices around the world the project will foresee the development of a toolkit – CitySDK v1.0 – that can be used by any city looking to create a sustainable infrastructure of “city apps”. The toolkit comprises of open and interoperable digital service interfaces as well as processes, guidelines and usability standards. CitySDK enables a more efficient utilisation of the expertise and know-how of developer communities to be applied in city service development. Apps and tools for CitySDK are developed in cooperation with the Code for Europe fellows (see http://www.codeforeurope.net) The Project focuses on three Pilot domains: Smart Participation, Smart Mobility and Smart Tourism. Within each of the three domains, a large-scale Lead Pilot is carried out in one city. The experiences of the Lead Pilot will be applied in the Replication Pilots in other partner cities. The project wants to engage with the Developer community in each of the participating cities and across Europe. This takes place through hackathons, apps challenges, and developer meet ups in the partner cities, as well as through dissemination via existing events such as PICNIC, FutureEverything and OKFest. In addition the CitySDK will be made available, along with links to the open data from the various partner cities, and developers will be encouraged to work with this to create new ideas and applications for the partner cities and others.

1. CitySDK
Uniform Development Toolkit
for City Services
Frank Kresin
Waag Society
@kresin / frank@waag.org
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2. What is SDK?
SDK = Service Development Kit
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3. Problem: Lack of Interoperability
Formats and APIs vary between cities
• ‘Open’ interfaces to existing systems are not uniform
even within cities
• Documentation is lacking as well
Scaling an app from one
city to another
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4. Solution: CityAPIs
CityAPIs
Open uniform interfaces
Scaling an app from one
city to another =

5. CitySDK Ecosystem
CitySDK Ecosystem
Cities’ prior platforms, services, interfaces, open data
Unified Open City Interfaces through Pilots
as CitySDK components
Engaged SME Developers’ new Services
exploiting the City SDK ecosystem, or open source pilot apps
App Stores
Public delivery
Infrastructures
Project Pilots
Demonstrators, open source
CitySDK components

6. CitySDK coverage
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2012 Preparation stage 01/2013 Lead Pilots 06/2013 Replication Pilots

7. 1. Smart Participation

8. Applications using
Participation API
KorjaaKaupunki(Fix the City):
http://korjaakaupunki.fi/
Pitäisköfiksata(Should this be fixed):
metro.fi/fiksaus

9. 2. Tourism
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10. Applications using Tourism API
10Spot in Lisbon: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.spotinlis&hl=en
Spot in Helsinki: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.spotinhki&hl=en
Lamia Tour Guide:
https://play.google.com/s
tore/apps/details?id=com
.smarts.tourguide
POIs and Events in Amsterdam:
http://citysdk.dmci.hva.nl/map/

11. 3. Smart Mobility

12. Smart Mobility
 services on real-time traffic
data from multiple sources
 Results: open source travel
assistant application,
several harmonized cities’
backend systems,
cluster of SME developers
working on value-added services
for Smart Mobility
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18. LD Architecture

19. 5 ★ LOD - 60+ data sets - 60+ mln. data points
Amsterdam
Netherland
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Helsinki Istanbul Lamia
Mancheste
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Rome
Open
Street
Map
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PT ● ● ● ● ● ● (●)
RTtrafic ● ● (●)
Statistics ● ●
Kadaster ● ● (●)
Parking ● ●
Electricity ● ●
POI ● ● ● ● (●) ● ●

20. http://citysdk.waag.org/apihttp://citysdk.waag.org/

21. http://citysdk.waag.org/map

22. http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/

23. http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/visualisation/

25. http://www.parkshark.nl/

27. CitySDK Factsheet
Co-funding: CIP ICT-PSP
Total budget: 6,8 MEUR
EU-contribution: 3,4 MEUR
Partners: 23 from 9 countries
Duration: 01/2012-06/2014
Smart Participation:
Hanna Niemi-Hugaerts, Forum Virium
hanna.niemi-hugaerts@forumvirium.fi
Jaakko Rajaniemi, City of Helsinki
jaakko.rajaniemi@hel.fi
Smart Mobility:
Job Spierings, Waag Society
job@waag.org
Smart Tourism:
Nuno Xavier, Lisbon Municipality
nuno.xavier@cm-lisboa.pt
Coordinator: Forum Virium Helsinki
Marja Mattila
+358 40 7440067
marja.mattila@forumvirium.fi
Comms: Manchester City Council
Adrian Slatcher
A.Slatcher@manchesterdda.com

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More information:
Frank Kresin
Research Director
Waag Society
@kresin
frank@waag.org
http://www.waag.org/en