Panel #4: Open Knowledge - Data, Citizens and Governance
FIWARE Global Summit
Smart Cities
Participative Cities
Citizen participation
Beyond Open Data Portals
CO-CREATION
Urban Intelligence
Knowledge Graphs
Actionable Knowledge to the service of citizens
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Transiting to Open Knowledge by fostering Collaboration through CO-CREATION
1. Panel #4: Open Knowledge - Data, Citizens and Governance
Transiting to Open Knowledge by fostering
Collaboration through CO-CREATION
Tuesday 8th May, 16:00-17:00, Porto, Portugal
Dr. Diego López-de-Ipiña (University of Deusto – DeustoTech, SPAIN) - @dipina
2. What is a Smart City?
A Smart City is an innovative and sustainable place that …
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• uses information and communication technologies (ICT) and other
means to …
□ improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and
competitiveness, while …
– ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with
respect to economic, social and environmental aspects
3. The need for Participative Cities
Smart Cities should not only be efficient but inclusive and participative:
• Only possible by user-driven and centric innovation:
□ The citizen should be heard, EMPOWERED!
How to achieve more participative cities?
• Ubiquitous urban apps and services to enhance the experience and interactions of the
citizen, by taking advantage of the city infrastructure and their contributions
• The information generated by cities and citizens must be linked and processed, still
preserving the rights of contributors
□ Regulate, protect, legislate to guarantee the rights and opportunities of such data providers
• Citizens must be engaged by being delivered back better services
How do we correlate, link and exploit such humongous data for all
stakeholders’ benefit?
• Demand for Big (Linked) Data for enabling Urban Analytics!!!
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4. Citizen Participation
City knowledge not only fed by
government or networked sensors' provided
data, but also with highly dynamic user-
generated data
Citizens may help on improving,
extending and enriching the data, but…
• Quality of the provided data may vary from
one citizen to another (duplication, miss-
classification)
• Continuously prosume data only if they feel
that services meeting their needs are offered
back as useful services
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5. Beyond Open Data Portals …
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CITIZENS have
NO SKILLS or TOOLS to
utilize COMPLEX DATA
LOW BENEFITS
from OPEN DATA
published by CITIES
6. CO-CREATION as a means to foster public/private collaboration
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CO-BUSINESSCO-MAINTENANCECO-IMPLEMENTATIONCO-IDEATION
WeLive Platform
WeLive Hosting Environments
CO-DESIGN
The core WeLive Platform supports the first phases
of the CO-CREATION lifecycle by giving tools for
innovating and implementing services together
CO-EXPLOITATION
WeLive Hosting Environments support CO-
MAINTENANCE of co-created services. Preliminary CO-
BUSINESS support has been implemented into the CNS
Marketplace
CO-CREATION
CO-CREATION of SUSTAINABLE services requires
support for both CO-DESIGN and CO-
EXPLOITATION
7. Participation and Collaboration need to be sustainable …
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Is it worth of implementing?
Is it worth of maintaining?
Enough business potential?
CO-IDEATION
CO-IMPLEMENTATION
CO-MAINTENANCE
CO-BUSINESS
Needs & Opportunities
PROFIT & SUSTAINABILITY
Profit from CO-BUSINESS
justifies the effort used in
CO-IMPLEMENTATION and
fuels CO-MAINTENANCE
which ensures long-term
SUSTAINABILITY
8. Urban Intelligence
Broad Data aggregates data from heterogeneous sources:
• Open Government Data repositories
• User-supplied data through social networks or apps
• Public private sector data or
• End-user private data
Urban Intelligence = giving sense to the correlation and analysis of
Broad Data in the city context
• Leverage digital traces left by citizens in their daily interactions with the
city to gain insights about why, how and when they do things
• We can progress from Open City Data to Open Data Knowledge
□ Energy saving, improve health monitoring, optimized transport system, filtering and
recommendation of contents and services
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10. From Privative Knowledge Graphs to Government Knowledge
Graphs …
Knowledge Graphs provide structured and detailed information about a given
topic, together with a list of links to other concepts
• Google Knowledge Graph is a good example of a privately-owned semantic network
contains more than 570 million objects and more than 18 million facts about – and
relations among – those different objects which are used to understand the meaning of
the terms used in the search query
Government Knowledge Graphs (GKG) – as suitable data models to capture the
knowledge in different key governmental areas, e.g. public physical asset
management, citizen card or community-managed sensing and analytics
• Fed by ontological background knowledge, Open Data, social data, legacy data, but also
by user-generated data and real-time data coming from city-wide sensor infrastructure
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