3. What has Cloud ever done for us?
Apart from Scale, Speed, Agility, Low Cost,
Enterprise Adoption, Enterprise Mapping, Open
Data, Standards, Google, API’s, etc
Open Street Maps, Map Servers,
GIS - More than just Location, Spatial Analysis and wider adoption now possible
3
6. Retailers..
• Assign each shopper a unique code - keeps tabs
on everything they buy.
– If you use a credit card or a coupon,
– or fill out a survey,
– or mail in a refund,
– or call the customer help line,
– or open an e-mail we’ve sent you
– or visit our Web site,
– we’ll record it and link it to your ID,”
• “We want to know everything we can.”
• “Cool is one click away from Creepy” (Fjord)
7. Your Demographic They Have or can get
• You
o your age,
o whether you are married, or got divorced
o and have kids, Your ethnicity,
• Where you live , the year you bought (or lost) your house, whether you’ve
moved recently,
• The number of cars you own.
• Distance to nearest Outlet,
• Worth
• Your estimated salary, if you’ve ever declared bankruptcy, Charity Giving
• What credit cards you carry in your wallet
• Education, where you went to college,
• Career - job history,
• Online -what Web sites you visit., the magazines you read, reading habits,
• The topics you talk about online,
• Likes- certain brands of coffee, cereal etc, political leanings,
8. Big Data goes with…
More Devices
More Access
More Apps
More Data…
16. So far ICT has not fundamentally
changed government
• 1990s: lCT expected
to make government
more
transparent, efficient
and user oriented
• 2005+: disillusion as
bureaucracy still in
existence
• Can Mobile / Data
/Cloud Help?
Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet
34. BIG DATA?
Massive network of services: water, sewage, drains …
Need to know asset location for planning and maintenance
Many databases, varying accuracy and provenance
Context
Ongoing street openings p.a.
Safety!
39. Our Lives are Different…
• We communicate on — Facebook, Chat, Twitter,
MMS
• We Research Information — Blogs, eNews, Wiki,
YouTube
• We Buy — eBay, Amazon, Dell, Deal Done, etc…
• We Travel - Tripadvisor, Flickr, RyanAir, Hotels,
• We Meet / Retate - Linkedln, FaceBook, Friends
• We Play – xBox, Playstation, Online games, ¡TV
• We expect the Government to fit into these
paradigms too…
40.
41.
42. What is Big Data?
• Size beyond the ability of
commonly used software
tools
• Data growing challenges
• volume increasing
• velocity (speed of i/o)
• variety (data type/source)
• Examples:
computer tracking of
shipments, sales, suppliers, cust
omers, email, web traffic, social
network
From McKinsey Report
43. Why Now?. What is the Catalyst?
• People
– Web sites with 300+ million unique visitors/month
• Facebook
• Google
• YouTube
• Access
– 1.2 Billion active mobile broadband subscriptions
• Commodity (community) Hardware
– possibility for cost effective processing
44. Facts!
• “Data is a vital raw material of the information
economy, much as coal and iron ore were in the
Industrial Revolution.”
• “Mining and analyzing these big new data sets can
open the door to a new wave of
innovation, accelerating productivity and economic
growth.”
• We can exploit Internet-scale data sets to uncover
new businesses and predict consumer behavior and
location data
market shifts. sales business data social network data
45. Think…
• NY Traffic
– They have mountains of data
– More Daily
– Don’t Understand it, can’t use it
– What is the True Cost of Data Mining
– Systems, Software, Computers, Analysts, STORAGE
– Are we collecting, collating, etc the Right Data
– People being removed daily, replaced by machines
– Need to Stand Back….
46. How to deal with Lots of data
• 7TB a Day for Twitter…
• 10,000 CD’s
• 5m Floppy
• 225GB during this talk…
• How do you Store that…
• HD Write Speed- 80mb/s…
• 24.3 Hrs to write 7TB….
• Government Thinking is not in this space.. Yet..
47.
48. Irish Government
• Decision – “All Government Invoices Published”
– Election Manifesto
– Election Promises
– Programme for Government
• Action
– None…
– Fear, Bad Reactions, Data Quality,
55. Which Apps?
• Government – Do not try to second guess what
are useful applications!
• No one can predict what data to make open
based on potential Apps.
• There are a huge number of apps available for
smartphones. Impossible to guess a few years
back.
• Put Data out there. Data as a platform for others
to build on, as infrastructure.
• Apps you will like and hate, but it’s not up to you.
57. Where is Open Data delivering?
• Participation / empowerment
• Transparency, democratic control
• New and better Government products and
services
• Impact measurement
• Efficient and Effective Government
• Data Journalism (Guardian Services)
• New knowledge / real innovation
58. The Internet of Things
Cars, Planes, Cameras,
Roads, Pipes, Public Cameras, Traffic Lights, Car
Parks, Pharma and Farms – over 1 Trillion
60. Mass increase in new net devices
• Move to digital controls Wireless
integration
• Network standards
– TCP/IP
communications
– Wireless
communications
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62. Water Meters
• Read the Meter
• View or Pay the Bill
• Compare the Usage to the
Local or National
Averages
• Look for areas of Savings
63. Roadworks
• Link to System – Online
Road Works Control
(OLRWC)
• License for Road
Opening
• Cost of Reinstatement
(Local Authority Usage)
• License for any Street
usage.
64. Planning Applications
• View Applications
• Get notified of Changes
• Make Comments
• Make a Submission
• Notify Local Authority
of Issues?
65. Sports
• What is available now
• How do I get there
• What if I have to Cancel
• Pay for it now
69. But all of these are static…..
But… would you
cross the road
based on 5 min
old information
70. Why Open Data
• Because the Data already belongs to everyone!
• Because there is Law, Inspire Directive - PSI
• It helps change the incentives, from Fail Big, Fail Slow to
Fail Small, Fail Fast, and Fail Forward (Innovation – More
eyes)
• Open Data will allow issues/problems to be seen, making
them less likely to be repeated (learning from other people’s
failures)
• Open Data use can allow Incremental Innovation: - stand on
the shoulders of giants. Don’t reinvent the wheel — use or
improve someone else’s
• Open Data quality can be increased over time — use and
reuse by other people and combining with other data
identifies (and helps solve) quality issues far more quickly
and cheaply than internal checking
71. How do we measure Success?
• Usage and Apps
• Critical Mass of Companies
• Search Results (Bing and Google Interested)
• Business Committed to OD
• Laws (Prison for breaking them)
• If Open Data doesn’t cause difficulty for the
Publisher to seek excellence then it isn’t
working
72. Where next - Augmented Reality
Bring together Big Data, Visualisation, GIS, GPS -
Bringing Cloud, Social, Data and Mobile
together…
79. Understand what are the Driving
Forces…
• Government Focus
– Understanding, Efficiency, Accountability
• Technology Innovation Focus
– Data as a Platform, Semantic Web
• Reward Focus
– Profit, Recognition
• Digitising Government Focus
– Computerisation / Technology Drive
• Problem Solving Focus
– New Skills needed to work on new Challenge
• Social / Public Sector / Enterprise
– More Focussed Services
80. Conclusions
• Change is constant
• Cloud is the Future
• Social is a Reality
• Mobile is already taking over
• Data has to keep up…
81. References
• We live in “Flat Land”
– There is danger in
making
representations more
seductive than the
truth
• Envisioning
Information - Tufte