City of Melbourne Keynote Sydney Customer Appreciation Day
1. City of Melbourne:
Toe in the water, head in the clouds
Colin Fairweather
Chief Information Officer
City of Melbourne
2. Snapshot
• The city by the numbers
• Challenges faced by cities
• City from the CIO’s desk
Case study
Cloud opportunities
3. City of Melbourne – by the numbers
• 100,000 residents
• Median age 28
• 16,000 businesses
• $365 million operating budget
• 800,000 visitors per day
• 1300 EFT
4. City Challenges
Rising community People &
expectations Movement
Digital Disruption Urban Growth
Shrinking public
funding pool &
Sustainability
economic
uncertain Liveability
5. ICT lens
Sensor network • Intersection of mobile, social
(noise, pedestrian, parking, he and ICT
at etc) • Power of the crowd
• Open data
3D Model • NBN
• ICT as a new civil
infrastructure
6. Hosting of premier event
websites with AWS
Background:
The failure of a major event website to cope with
demand during the event had a serious impact
on customers and ultimately on CoM’s
reputation
8. Why the cloud?
• Dynamic scaling of
infrastructure
• Not sharing network bandwidth
with line-of-business
• Faster lead times for
provisioning
• High availability at an
affordable price
• Try before you buy
9. Solution - Proof of concept in the cloud
Resources available
“on tap” Removes
infrastructure
roadblocks
Target market for
demand
peaks
10. • Web
New Role
Development &
Infrastructure
Skills
• Understanding
Key Architecture
implications of
Capability
Learning's design options
Learning • Prototyping and
environment play
11. Next on the drawing board?
• Test and development in the cloud
• DR in the cloud
• Platform for open data initiatives
• 3D model in the cloud
• Emergency Response
• Support for R&D and to trial new business models
• ….and government as a platform?
Notes de l'éditeur
Elected council, City of Melb Act.100,000 residents growing to 180,000 by 2030800,000 daily visitors growing to 1million by 2030# students drive demographic= digitally aware
Complex eco-systemChange on thing and impact anotherMost liveable city 2 yearsEG Liveability impacted by pollution, public amenity, open space, road traffic, services = at same time cities growing, money’s tight, expectations are rising(Deloitte, Digital disruption:Short fuse, big bang report 2012)
Sensor network (noise, pedestrian, parking, heat etc) NBNICT as a new civil infrastructureIntersection of mobile, social and ICTIncreasing data sources – include census of land-use for past 50 yearsThe crowd want to co-createThey can report – Neat Streets3D presentation layer for sharing complex city dataNeed to invest and maintain investment in this new infrastructure
A short description of uglyWebsites are now critical collateral for events – up-to-date information, available for mobile market, cuts down on printing costs, rubbish etc
Always easy to describe the situation after the eventLots of chickens came home to roost at the same time – unfortunately on the day of the eventVictims of our own success –past not a good indicator of the future/designed within an inch of its lifeLack of agility and flexibility Especially in terms of techo’s trying to cut corners to meet deadlinesTight timeframe - 4 major events for the year mean that constantly building the new site – not much time to reflect – NYE will always be delivered on NYE
Dynamic scaling of infrastructureAll the bottlenecks can the solvedCoM sites are big for CoM but tiny compared with Amazon’s capacityNot sharing network bandwidth but line-of-businessFaster lead times for provisioningBuying and commissioning equipment takes timeModern monolithic infrastructure (e.g. SAN) has hit-the-wall scalingWhat takes weeks … now takes minutes …Emergency managementKey communication tool not effected by whatever local disaster has occurred if its hosted elsewhereHigh availability at an affordable price
Developer conversationHome use of internet example
Need for new “Dev-Ops” role with cross-over skills in web development and infrastructureHeavy reliance on ‘architecture’ capability to understand implications of numerous design optionsE.g. high availability … options we’ve never had like fail over to another region/countryPrototyping and play