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The city as a laboratory a place for experimentation driven by innovation
Esteve Almirall ESADE Business School
esteve.almirall@esade,edu
Increasing number diversity of services { }
Decreasing budgets
Re-invent cities (Smart Cities) . . .
Problem.-
Opportunity.-
2008 – The problem
Vivek Kundra, former CTO of Washington DC (now Federal CIO), needed to make DC’s Open Data Catalog useful.
Year 1 Results 47 web, iPhone & Facebook apps $2,300,000+ Estimated value
$50,000 in cost
+4000% ROI
h-p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URmKRTU-‐hxQ&feature=youtu.be
Gov 2.0 Expo 2010: Joshua Robin, "Unlocking Real-‐Time Data"
unexpected results when sharing data in Public
transportation
Portland - Oregon Sleep soundly. The iNap app will wake snoozing commuters as their stop approaches. Predict arrival. The city doesn't provide live GPS tracking of its trains and buses, but the app ArrivalTracker uses an algorithm and city API data to predict arrival Wmes fairly well. Portland's Tri-‐County Metropolitan TransportaWon District was one of the first to release acWonable data, way back in 2008.
Fast Company, October 2011
unexpected results when sharing data in Public
transportation
Boston Crowdsource trouble. OpenMBTA searches Twi-er to relay what problems riders are reporWng. Hear it straight. How Fucked Is the T? bluntly sums up the state of each subway line like a naWve Bostonian would. Sample: If the Orange Line's average wait Wme is 5.5 minutes, the line "might be a li-le fucked.” Massachuse-s has more than 200 mobile startups, which have developed dozens of transit apps for navigaWng the finicky Massachuse-s Bay TransportaWon Authority.
Fast Company, October 2011
unexpected results when sharing data in Public
transportation
New York
Fast Company, October 2011
Come and go efficiently. Exit Strategy NYC lets subway riders fulfill the eternal Gotham need: leave and enter staWons at the most convenient staircases. The Metropolitan TransportaWon Authority has released limited data, so app development is slow. But that may change. The MTA's App Quest contest will give a combined $15,000 in prizes to transit app developers. Winners are announced November 1.
1 App. 7 CiHes. Many Uses.
Boston, MA Sea-le, WA Chicago, IL Buenos Aires, ArgenWna
Honolulu, HI Norfolk, VA Bloomington, IN
And more everyday…
- govs. - Service Providers
Platform orchestrators
resources to regulate (zero-sum game)
resources to leverage on (non zero-sum game)
- govs. - Service Providers
Platform orchestrators
developed in-house always fall short
high-cost no sharing local offer
fragmented
co-developed with users, communities
free and not-free empowering entrepreneurship
driven by innovation stimulating growth