API Days Mediterranea City Government API Discoverability 7 May 2015
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City Government API Discoverability
Are API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
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City Government API DiscoverabilityAre API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
Learning from API business success
Current API strategies of cities
Components of a good City API Strategy
A discoverability model
Solving urban challenges
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City Government API DiscoverabilityAre API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
Learning from API business success
Current API strategies of cities
Components of a good City API Strategy
A discoverability model
Solving urban challenges
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How APIs are seen as enabling business
Source: http://www.fabernovel.com/work/why-should-c-level-care-about-apis/
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Growth Strategy: Starting Blocks
• Self-service registration
• Developer portal
• Code snippets
• Interactive documentation
• Sandbox
• Status Page
• Separate Engineering Blog/Twitter handle
• SDKs and Ruby Gems
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City Government API DiscoverabilityAre API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
Learning from API business success
Current API strategies of cities
Components of a good City API Strategy
A discoverability model
Applying the model to solve city challenges
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How APIs are seen as enabling cities
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/ashabook/smartworl-dabr
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Barcelona
Source: http://opendata.amb.cat/help.html
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Barcelona
Source: http://codeforeurope.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/CfE_ProjectPoster_FixBCN.pdf
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Melbourne
Source: data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
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Melbourne
Source: data.melbourne.vic.gov.au
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New York City
Source: https://developer.cityofnewyork.us/
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New York City
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City Government API DiscoverabilityAre API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
Learning from API business success
Current API strategies of cities
Components of a good City API Strategy
A discoverability model
Applying the model to solve city challenges
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Metadata
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Standardization
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Directory Listing
ProgrammableWeb.com
•Cities category
•Government category
Mashape
http://dataportals.org/
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Developer Portal
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Open Data Platforms
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Social Media
• LinkedIn Group?
• Google Groups
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Hackathons, Accelerators, Dev Summits
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Story Telling / Case Studies
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Business Focused Portals
Source: https://api.business.govt.nz/
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IFTTT, Zapier, Blockspring etc Integrations
Source: https://api.blockspring.com/browse
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Web Tools, Widgets
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Equity Lens
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User Dashboard
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An Enabling Policy Environment
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for data supply
Digital workers
Procurement policies
Incubators
Facilitate civic hackers and startups to meet and work with community groups
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City Government API DiscoverabilityAre API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
Learning from API business success
Current API strategies of cities
Components of a good City API Strategy
A discoverability model
Solving urban challenges
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A City Government API Discoverability Model
URL
Text mining API
NLP API
Keywords
Plain language
Business properties
APIs to build with
APIs to transact
with
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City Government API DiscoverabilityAre API-enabled smart cities really a thing?
Learning from API business success
Current API strategies of cities
Components of a good City API Strategy
A discoverability model
Applying the model to solve city challenges
@mgboydcom
1Open data: Building blocks
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Open data: Building blocks
API-enabled,
open platform
Procurement Policies
Digital workers
Incubators
Facilitate civic
hackers &
community groups
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Open data: Building blocks
API-enabled,
open platform
Procurement Policies
Digital workers
Incubators
Facilitate civic
hackers &
community groups
Multimodal
transport
Food systems
Night -time
economic
vitality
Urban heat island
effect
Micro-enterprise
& innovation
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Open data: Building blocks
API-enabled,
open platform
Procurement Policies
Digital workers
Incubators
Facilitate civic
hackers &
community groups
Multimodal
transport
Food systems
Night -time
economic
vitality
Urban heat island
effect
Micro-enterprise
& innovation
@mgboydcom
Open data: Building blocks
API-enabled,
open platform
Procurement Policies
Digital workers
Incubators
Facilitate civic
hackers &
community groups
Multimodal
transport
Food systems
Night -time
economic
vitality
Urban heat island
effect
Micro-enterprise
& innovation
@mgboydcom
Open data: Building blocks
API-enabled,
open platform
Procurement Policies
Digital workers
Incubators
Facilitate civic
hackers &
community groups
Multimodal
transport
Food systems
Night -time
economic
vitality
Urban heat island
effect
Micro-enterprise
& innovation
@mgboydcom
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Thank You
• Ryan Branciforte• Jereme Monteau• Holger Reinhardt• Steve Willmott• Kin Lane• Mark Headd• Emer Coleman• Dharmishta Rood• Kat Borlongan• Mehdi Medjaoui• Jonathan Raper• Kevin Toms• Noam Schwartz• Jack O’Hurley
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