Open data, kebabs and town planning: how to build Smart Cities as if people matter

1. Cover with focus picture 1 Cover with focus picture 2 Cover with focus picture 3 Open data, kebabs and town planning How to build Smart Cities as if people mattered Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick
2. Photo by Guy Evans https://www.flickr.com/photos/birminghamculture/
3. http://birminghamnewsroom.com/the-2013-challenge-is-to-bridge-the-public-health-gap/
4. Queens Arms by Ian Edwards http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanuman/2497292061/ Great CharlesStreet by Elliott Brown http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4920885391/ “Smart Hack” Birmingham by Sebastian Lenton https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton ColmoreSquare by Elliott Brown http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/3755421730/ Jennens Road by Elliott Brown http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4521075613/ Road sign by Elliott Brown http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/4711677856/ Bull Ring by Johnny Wilson http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnytakespictures/7814385330/ Digbeth by Elliott Brown http://www.flickr.com/photos/ell-r-brown/5974905435/ Universityof Birmingham by v1ctory_1s_m1ne http://www.flickr.com/photos/v1ctory_1s_m1ne/413854637/
5. Engagement
6. The importance of a good diet
7. © 2012 IBM Corporation Smart Hack Birmingham 2012 Coders taking part in “Smart Hack” at Birmingham Science Park Aston in 2012 by Sebastian Lenton: https://twitter.com/sebastianlenton
8. Birmingham Smart City Alliance http://birminghamsmartcityalliance.wordpress.com/
9. http://harbornefoodschool.co.uk/
10. Smart urbanism Images and concept from Kelvin Campbell’s “Smart Urbanism” movement: http://www.smarturbanism.org.uk/ Massive / Small: what are the characteristics of cities that give rise to “massive” amounts of “small-scale” innovation?
11. Smart digital urbanism • Accessible and adaptable: • Open Data, Open APIs, Open Standards, Open Architectures, Cloud Computing, Open Source • Engaging: • Open Data, Social Media • Top down and bottom up: • Planning frameworks, procurement policies, soft infrastructures • Entrepreneurial and enterprising: • Evading the “Jaws of Doom”
12. Cover with focus picture 1 Cover with focus picture 2 Cover with focus picture 3 Thankyou Dr Rick Robinson FBCS CITP FRSA AoU, IT Director, Smart Data and Technology rick.robinson@amey.co.uk http://theurbantechnologist.com @dr_rick

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Birmingham’s technology incubator, Birmingham Science Park Aston, is separated from the financial district, and from the pubs and studio flats of the Jewellery Quarter, by the inner ringroad – Masshouse Circus may be gone, but its shadow remains. Jennens Road, another wide dual-carriageway, must be negotiated to cross from the Aston Campus to Millennium Point and the Eastside City Park, adjacent to the planned HS2 station and home to Birmingham City University’s new campus.

The creative district of Digbeth, home to the Custard Factory, Fazeley Studios and Maverick Television, makers of Embarrassing Bodies whose “Live from the Clinic” spin-off is already an example of convergence between the digital, creative and medical sectors, is separated from Eastside by a geographical fault, more busy roads and some of the most industrial and intimidating streets in the centre of the city. And the city’s most prestigious University, whilst it is adjacent to the science parks and research institutions at the heart of its life sciences and medical technology capability, is located 3 miles away in Selly Oak.

Between all these is a thriving retail centre, rejuvenated by the Bullring shopping centre in 2003; but it is a centre with very few independent shops, restaurants and cafes; it is not a place where entrepreneurs and creatives from the city’s industries come together.

So whilst the city is unrecognisable from the place it was more than 20 years ago when I moved there, and whilst the Eastside redevelopment strategy is a phenomenal long-term vision, the pace of economic changes driven by the information revolution nevertheless create new challenges; and ones that will be difficult to face in Birmingham as elsewhere given the long-term nature of physical infrastructure developments, the fragmentation of responsibility for city services and the fact that they are subject to long term contracts and policy constraints.

So what is Birmingham – and what are other cities – to do?
This is what happens when you give city data to people with the skills and passion to do something about it. These people spent a weekend together in 2012 asking themselves: in what way should Birmingham be better? And what can we do about it?

They wrote an app that connected spare food prepared in professional kitchens each day with soup kitchens in need of more food.

So what came of this?
The Smart City Alliance came together to promote “massive / small” innovation by creating a network of networks so that great ideas from one place can find great support from another. We convened a set of “unusual suspects” to explore how we could take the ideas generated in the hackathon forward, and create a systematic change to food culture in Birmingham.
Introduced the Open Street Maps movement to city institutions, in particular the Longbridge development. In the Midlands, Open Street Maps now includes full coverage of all buildings in Birmingham and Solihull, with full postal address - the largest regional open address data set in the UK. Open Street Maps has 100% coverage of correct road names for all local authorities in the West Midlands except Coventry, including correction of all errors in Ordnance Survey mapping. The closure of Charles Street Queensway tunnels during the summer schedule was recorded and helped to achieve correct routing for participating navigation systems.
… and Two years later, it led to the Harborne Food School, which opened this month, offering training courses in cookery, sustainable food production and running small food businesses. And it intends in the near future to operate a local food distribution service based on the ideas from the Hackathon.

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