Smart Cities, Smart Citizens and the case for the CitySDK

Smart Cities,Smart Citizens and

the case for CitySDK.Frank Kresin

Research Director@kresin / frank@waag.org

Design Rules for Smarter Cities• Your citizens know more than you. • Prototype early and fast, engage the stakeholders, iterate quickly and be

prepared to start all over.• Embrace self-organisation and civic initiative, but help to make the results

sustainable and scalable.• Know what you are talking about in the face of technology. Never rely on

consultants that will sell you more consultancy, not solutions.• Have binding decisions made at the lowest level possible and actively preach

self-governance.• Favour loosely coupled, smaller systems over monoliths and mastodons, and

use peer-defined standards to glue together the parts. Small systems tend to fail sometimes; large systems fail for sure.

• To raise and deserve trust, build systems based on data reciprocity and transparency.

• Reuse existing parts and design your additions for reuse, adding to the public domain and thereby strengthening its capacity to act and learn.

http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

Waag Society

Meaningful Encounters

Principles:

Best producer is the user

(S)he can learn to make anything

Sharing is key to innovation

Making is crucial to understand & act in the world

www.appsordemocracy.org

Knowledge institutes

Developer hubs

Accelerators

Innovation labs

The Amsterdam Case for Open Datahttp://www.flickr.com/photos/ramonduran/84474236

SOLA

Apps for Europe

THIS DOES NOT SCALE

City SDK

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Open, interoperable service interfaces.Processes, guidelines and usability standards. Sharing, re-using and transferring city solutions across cities.Not inventing from the scratch, but mapping, using & developing global best practices

What is SDK?

SDK = Service Development Kit

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Problem: Lack of Interoperability

Formats and APIs vary between cities

•‘Open’ interfaces to existing systems are not uniform even within cities

•Documentation is lacking as well

Scaling an app from one city to another =

Solution: CityAPIs

CityAPIsOpen uniform interfaces

Scaling an app from one city to another =

CitySDK Ecosystem

CitySDK Ecosystem  

 Cities’ prior platforms, services, interfaces, open data

Unified Open City Interfaces through Pilots 

as CitySDK components

Engaged SME Developers’ new Services exploiting the City SDK ecosystem, or open source pilot

apps

App StoresPublic delivery Infrastructure

s

Project PilotsDemonstrators, open source

CitySDK components

CitySDK coverage

The Lead Pilots are

replicated in other

CitySDK Partner cities

312012 Preparation

stage01/2013

Lead Pilots06/2013

Replication Pilots

1. Smart Participation

Applications using Participation API

Korjaa Kaupunki (Fix the City):

http://korjaakaupunki.fi/

Pitäiskö fiksata (Should this be fixed):

metro.fi/fiksaus

2. Tourism

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Applications using Tourism API

35Spot in Lisbon: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.spotinlis&hl=en

Spot in Helsinki: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.spotinhki&hl=en

Lamia Tour Guide: https://play.google.com/store/apps/detail

s?id=com.smarts.tour

guide

POIs and Events in Amsterdam:

http://citysdk.dmci.hva.nl/map/

3. Smart Mobility

Smart Mobility services on real-time

traffic data from multiple sources

Results: open source travel assistant

application, several harmonized

cities’ backend systems, cluster of SME developers

working on value-added services for Smart Mobility

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Multimodal World

Open Trip Planner

CitySDK Linked Data

•Collects

•Annotates

•Links

•Distributes

mobility

Designed for:

•Developers

•(Local) governments

•Companies

•Researchers

• Journalists

•Citizens

ArchitectureApp(lications)

Intelligence

CitySDK LD API

Databases

City Data

Datasources (selection)

5 ★ LOD - 60+ data sets - 60+ mln. data points

Amsterdam

Netherlands Helsinki Istanbul Lamia Manchest

er Rome

Open Street

Map● ● ● ● ● ● ●

PT ● ● ● ● ● ● (●)RT

verkeer ● ● (●)

Statistieken ● ●

Kadaster ● ● (●)Parkeren ● ●Opladen ● ●

POI ● ● ● ● (●) ● ●

http://citysdk.waag.org/apihttp://citysdk.waag.org/

http://citysdk.waag.org/map

Tapping into Creativity

Cases

•RT mobility data•BAG viewer•Parking API•Orphaned Bikes•Tourism in

Amsterdam•Emergency services•City Dashboard

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/visualisation/

http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/

AmsterdamBarcelonaHelsinkiLisboaIstanbulManchesterRomeLamia

Smart Parking Reducing Mobility

http://www.parkshark.nl/

http://bomenapp.nl/

Smart Citizen Kit

Pointers• Design Rules for Smarter Cities

http://waag.org/nl/blog/design-rules-smarter-cities

• Smart Citizens Publicationhttp://futureeverything.org/publications/smart-citizens/

• CitySDK Mobility APIhttp://citysdk.waag.org/api

• Open Design Nowhttp://opendesignnow.org/

• Smart Citizen Kithttp://www.smartcitizen.me/

• Apps for Europe - Turning Data into Businesshttp://www.appsforeurope.eu/

Piet Heinkade 181 a1019 HC Amsterdam

waag.org

Thanks!Frank Kresin - @kresin