Cloud Opportunities for Local Governmen

Cloud Computing to transform

Local Government

Tim Willoughby

LGCSB

Not all Clouds are good!

Drivers

• SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, Web 2.0 / 3.0, Peer to Peer• Addressing and Adapting change and to change

The World has to be on the Cloud

• Instantaneous, Online Response from Inter-continental companies• Digital Supply Chain across Global companies / across the globeThe World is Flat

• Environmental Compliance• Reduce your own and your companies Carbon FootprintThe world is green

• Consumers and Workforce - always on - connected anywhere• Increased demand and expectation for servicesThe World is Mobile

• Energy and Cost Efficient Computing and Data Centres• Flatter Budgets require Efficiencies CAPX and OPEX

The World of Low Cost ICT

Security is changing

• Security has to be appropriate• Security has to be measured • Can have things so secure that they are

unusable.

Cloud / Open is forcing ChangeWith or Without the Owners / Shareholders

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 Cloud Help?

Jane E. Fountain – Gov 1.0 – Just Replicating the Silos on the Internet

Goverment dont always Understand What the people Want?

What governments often Deliver

why is crowd sourcing important?

Crowd Source – Group Collaboration is more powerful than individual achievement

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Typical Individual effort

many hours, one map2

OpenStreetMap, 2011

200,000 contributors, one map3

why is open source important?

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

- Eric S. Raymond, co-founder of the Open Source Initiative

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why is open source important?

free speech

why is open source important?

“Think free as in free speech, not free beer.”

- Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation

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who uses open source?

90% of supercomputers60% of internet servers30% of smart phones

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What is Cloud?

DON’T WORRY, TRUST US, WE HAVE IT ALL UNDER CONTROL

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What has Cloud ever done for us?

Apart from Scale, Speed, Agility, Low Cost, Enterprise Mapping, Open Data, Standards, Google, API’s, Open Street Maps, Map Servers,

GIS - More than just Location, Spatial Analysis and wider adoption now possible

Cloud Policy…

• The only way is not to play?

Mashup

Why this is so compelling: It’s a disruptive technology

• Does it meet enterprise needs

• Easy to control• SLA / Support• Good enough for

startups and SME• “Cheap” compute• Pilot and trial…

Source: upcoming research, Cloud Computing: Not Ready For The Enterprise...Yet.

In how many years…

Cloud Computing Challenges

4) Cost 5) Security

2) Availability

3) Maintenance

End User

1) Scalability

Mind the Gap…

What How Where Who When Why

DataInformationKnowledge

Wisdom

BusinessProcessesAnalysis

Collaboration

Distributed Geography

UsersAgencies

Organisations

EventsTimes

PolicyStrategy

Databases Applications NetworksSecured

UserInterfaces

Event Processing

TraceableModels

Technology Stuff

Our Stuff

G Cloud – UK…• Distributed Cloud• Work like a Network• Everyone

• Can See• Can Play• Can Add Value (Within

Limits)• Shared Data Centres• App Store

• Issues – • Support• Code Base• Open Source Push

• My View – 3 Models• Car Boot Sale• Charity Shop• Department Store

Virtually Unlimited Storage

For storing data

Smart CitiesGartner: “networked sensors in everything we own will form a new Web (the Internet of Things). But it will only be of value if the ‘terabyte torrent’ of data it generates could be collected, analysed and interpreted”

… and .. just because we can….

Smart Local Government?

The Data Underworld

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!

Or Wizards

GIS is now Mainstream

Still need Common Sense

Open Data

• Smart City – Living Lab – Access to “all” the data captured

• Linked Open Data• Open Data Formats• Standards

The Currency of your data• Automating Change

Management• Information where and when it

is required• Flexible digital delivery• Data Accuracy Improvement• Do you trust your Data enough

to share it?

Data Standards

• Cannot Adopt Standards from software Suppliers.

• Have to move away from this position!• Need Open Standards• Standards for Everything, even the Location of

Public Toilets…

Architecture Model for Open Data

Five level saturation model by Tim Berners-Lee ★ Available on the web (whatever format), but with an open

licence ★★ Available as machine-readable structured data (e.g. excel

instead of image scan of a table) ★★★ as (2) plus non-proprietary format (e.g. CSV instead of

excel) ★★★★ All the above plus, Use open standards from W3C (RDF

and SPARQL) to identify things, so that people can point at your stuff

★★★★★ All the above, plus: Link your data to other people’s data to provide context

LOD - Pages with Intelligence

open source / open datathe fix your street model

incorporating mobile apps

Apps, Apps, Apps

from: physical, the (qr code), online source, & augmented reality

Social and Multi MediaResponding through innovation

Local Authorities Housing

What have we done so far…

• Virtualisation savings– Over 750 servers virtualised in sector– Savings of over €7.50m over five-year period– Further savings through licence consolidation may

be possible• Government Networks– Shared data network for public sector– Huge Savings for LG sector

What do Clouds currently not do?

• Anything subject to compliancy– Includes PCI-compliant applications

• Apps that call back to performance sensitive services in your data centre

• Apps that require tight coupling between instances

• Sensitive Data• Large applications that don’t fit inside VMs

Cloud conclusions

• Government cannot ignore cloud• Public Cloud and Big Data• Public Cloud and Open Data• SLA needs to be more Open• Future is Cloudy