Lightning Talks fromMegan Smith U.S. Chief Technology Officer
NIST, OSTP, Tech Hire, Maker Movement, CitySDK, Regional Big Data Hubs, Start-up in a Day, Broadband Connectivity Index, ConectED, Community Gigabit Fund
at the Launch of Smart Gigabit Communities event January 26, 2016
4. White House Smart Cities Initiative
wh.gov/webform/smartcities
Transportation ▪ Housing ▪ Utilities ▪ Education ▪ Workforce ▪ Business/Civil Society/Governance ▪ Green Spaces ▪ Civic Institutions ▪ Sustainability
Flickr/LAUNCH HACKATHON 2014
5. Sokwoo Rhee
Associate Director of Cyber-Physical Systems
National Institute of Standards andTechnology
NIST Global CityTeams Challenge
6. Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC)
Establish and demonstrate replicable, scalable and sustainable
models for incubation and deployment of interoperable,
standard-based IoT solutions and demonstrate their measurable
benefits in Smart Communities/Cities
For more information, visit : www.globalcityteams.org
Contact: Sokwoo Rhee (sokwoo.rhee@nist.gov)
8. Dozens of training
providers will be
flexible and able to
respond to employers’
demand signals and
are focused on training
competencies and job
placement
500+ employers have
publicly expressed their
commitment to hire
based on mastery, not
history – re-setting
demand signal for
education/training, app
developers & job
seekers
35 communities are
aggregating
employers, using
different models,
learning from each
other, develop policies
over time to
complement and scale
the market’s efforts
Onramps,
assessments, and tech
tools, discerning and
matching talent with
open jobs are the key
glue in the ecosystem to
ensure that this hiring
channel is viable
Employer Participation Education & Training Matching & ValidationCivic Engagement
Get Involved by…
is a national initiative that builds a superior network to connect
employers with IT hiring needs to individuals who possess the skills and
motivation to be successful employees, in a world where non-traditional
pathways often render them “invisible” to traditional recruiting processes
going to www.techhire.org
The key elements of are:
11. The Census Bureau’s open source development kit is designed to make Census open data
easier to access and interoperate with other data sources.
What is the City SDK?
Provides
real-time
actionable
information
Provides
contextual
data
SENSOR
DATA
OPEN
DATA
POPULATION
ECONOMY
WEATHER
TRANSPORTATION
ENERGY
SAFETY Smart
Cities
Services
GitHub Open Source Platform
How Does it Help?
Platform (ecosystem) enables interaction
among data consumers and Producers
Cities Provide
The Context for
Value Creation
How Does it Work?
The US Census Bureau is the largest federal statistical agency with authoritative data about the
Nation’s people and economy.
13. National Science Foundation
MIDWEST
SOUTH
Alaska & Hawaii are part of the West region. US Territories can participate in any region
106 Personnel
79 Organizations
12 states NORTHEAST
193 Personnel
99 Institutions
9 States
WEST
Berkeley (PI)
UW (PI)
86 Personnel
47 Organizations
13 States
University
Non-profit
Government
Industry
HPC Center
116 Personnel
95 Organizations
15 States + DC
Big Data Regional Innovation
Hubs & Spokes
Map of Hub leadership institutions
Current Spoke solicitation at NSF 16-510
14. Aadil Ginwala
Assistant Director, Education andTelecommunications Innovation
White House Office of Science andTechnology Policy
Startup in a Day
17. Goal: Empower communities with strategies that increase broadband
access, adoption, and use.
17
Connectivity Initiative
Self-Assessment Tool
Report, Recommendations and Index
Planning and Implementation Support
National Community of Practice
Assessment Scope:
• Access
• Adoption
• Policy
• Use
Be a Partner:
• Community Partners provide input on indicators and pilot tools
• Organizational Partners engage their members
• Philanthropic and Business Partners directly support communities
during implementation and planning
The City SDK is an open data Platform-based on the Census API. What makes it a “Platform” is its ability to promote interaction among data consumers and producers. Cities and communities provide context or the opportunity for services, innovation, and social good. The interaction created among data producers and consumers is characteristic of a growing ecosystem involving academia, industry, innovation hubs, and other open government data sources and initiatives. The Federal data supply chain is changing. Prior focus was about releasing high value data sets – ideally through API’s. Federal agencies like the Census Bureau continue to focus on data dissemination and making our open data discoverable and useable. What we are finding out is that the “scaling” of our dissemination and value creation process is enabled by the market through new business models. The emerging integration of data networks with socioeconomic data networks is leading to new value creation in cities and communities.
A little more about the BDHubs. In September, NSF announced four awards totaling more than $5 million to establish regional hubs for data science innovation.
The consortia are coordinated by top data scientists at Columbia University (Northeast Hub), Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of North Carolina (South Hub), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Midwest Hub) and the University of California, San Diego, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Washington (West Hub).
Covering all 50 states, they include commitments from more than 250 organizations--from universities and cities to foundations and Fortune 500 corporations--with the ability to expand further over time. The organizational structure for each BD Hub varies by region. Some are organized into standing sub committees and task forces, others into flexible working groups. You see on this map not only the Hub coordinators, but also the organizations leading the subcommittes and sub divisions of each Hub.
Develop clear indicators for broadband access, adoption and use that allow for comparison and evaluation by communities across the country with different demographics, geographies and income
Spur community mobilization around broadband improvements that increase competition, reduce costs, improve service and expand access and use
Support communities with technical assistance and other resources as they plan and execute broadband projects
Foster a stronger national community of practice among policymakers and officials working on broadband