Cloud Computing to transform Local Government Tim Willoughby LGCSB
Nov 19, 2014
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