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

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•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

• Twitter

• 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

@mgboydcom

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

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Urban heat island

effect

Micro-enterprise

& innovation

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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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