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City of Helsinki City Executive Office Crowdsourcing smart city data in Helsinki Riku Oja Code Fellow@City of Helsinki dev.hel.fi Mindtrek, Tampere 10/18/2016

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City of HelsinkiCity Executive Office

Crowdsourcing smart city data in Helsinki

Riku OjaCode Fellow@City of Helsinkidev.hel.fi

Mindtrek, Tampere 10/18/2016

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Open source development at the City of Helsinki• A small team with agile software development practices using

• open data• open source code• open APIs

• Number of software developers• 2013 – 1• 2014 – 2• 2015 – 5• 2016 – 6 coders, 1 devops, 1 designer, plus contractors

• We assist city departments in opening up data and build APIs on top of them

• In collaboration with Helsinki Region Infoshare (www.hri.fi), we organize the bi-weekly Helsinki Loves Developers event

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Why is Helsinki a fan of open source and open data?• Less dependence on monolithic systems and external

providers• Constantly improving quality of code and data

• Crowdsourcing• Transparency, eyes on the code

• In-house software and procurement expertise prevents the most glaring errors usually done when outsourcing

• Fast and agile development, lower costs, direct access to city data

• Allows employing the most recent technologies and external agile developers whenever needed

• Allows collaborating and harmonizing APIs across cities• Increases transparency and accountability in public sector

decisions and budgeting• Lowers boundary of participation between citizens and

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Open decisions API

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Helsinki Service Map and API

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Linked Events API

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Resource reservation API

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Kerro kantasi platform and API

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Where do we need more amenities?

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Where do we need more amenities?

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Where do we need city bike stations?

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Where do we need city bike stations?

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Next: snow on the bike lanes?

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Thank [email protected]

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