The city as a Laboratory by Esteve Almirall

Esteve Almirall

Esteve Almirall [email protected]

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.-

Open Data

2008 – The problem

Vivek Kundra, former CTO of Washington DC (now Federal CIO), needed to make DC’s Open Data Catalog useful.

The Old Way 1.0

you know the way it’s done now

The New Way Open Data

+ 2.0 -> Citizen talent

+ Fame and fortune

= ?

Fame & Fortune

Year 1 Results 47 web, iPhone & Facebook apps $2,300,000+ Estimated value

$50,000 in cost

+4000% ROI

www.AreYouSafeDC.com

Subsequent Innovation

www.AreYouSafeDC.com

Subsequent Innovation

Open Data - success story 1 -

h-p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URmKRTU-­‐hxQ&feature=youtu.be  

Gov  2.0  Expo  2010:  Joshua  Robin,  "Unlocking  Real-­‐Time  Data"  

Open Data - success story 2 -

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.  

Open Data - success story 3 -

ADOPT-­‐A-­‐WHATEVER…  An  App  Becomes  a  Plaeorm  

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…  

Why ?

- 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

- govs.- Service Providers

Platform orchestrators

esteve almirall [email protected]