Improving Access to Information to Engage Citizens
David O’Connor, County Manager, Fingal County Council
www.fingal.ie @fingalcoco
Fingal Fingal 3rd largest
Youngest
Fast Growing
Rapid Population Growth FINGAL DATA HUB
Malahide Castle, Fingal
Sharing Data http://www.fdb.ie/fingaldatahub Visualising Data
FINGAL OPEN DATA
Corballis, Donabate, Fingal Fingal Open Data http://data.fingal.ie
Objectives • Transparency • Participation • Collaboration • Economic Opportunities 170 datasets in 12 categories DUBLINKED
Dublin Airport, Fingal
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region www.dublinked.ie @dublinked Objectives
• innovating, developing and trialling urban solutions
• engagement with companies and researchers
• portal for sharing public sector data
supporting data-driven innovation in the Dublin region
Data release
245 Datasets Organisation No of Datasets 13 Organisations Dublin City 91 6 dynamic data sets Fingal 54 Dun Laoghaire 49 South Dublin 16 Ordnance Survey 10 Ireland Government 5 Departments National Transport 3 Authority PRSA 1 Others 15 Top downloads
High interest transport, planning, environment, mapping Unexpected fire brigade, school wardens, winter salting routes Innovation network
Events Planned… • Planning • Public transport • Technical workshop • Tourism • Spatial Data • Competition to • Visualisation coincide with • Open Innovation presidency • Public Data
60-120 attending – high % entrepreneurs
New collaborations INSPIRE
http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
RE-USE OF DATA
Skerries, Fingal Outputs
35 applications • planning information • journey planners • mobile parking app • events, facilities
Visualisations • property price map • public transport • journey times
apps 4fingal C O M P E T I T I O N 9th November, 2011 – 9th January, 2012 €11,500 in prizes Community, Enterprise, Tourism, Student & Ideas Categories Planning Applications
http://mypp.ie
Public Transport Bring Banks
https://github.com/robmooney/BringBanks
Street Trees, Fingal FixYourStreet
http://www.fixyourstreet.ie
Bathing Water Quality
http://www.bathingwater.ie Development Plan Submissions
Development Plan Submissions National Development Plan Viewer
Improving Access to Information to Engage Citizens
data.fingal.ie @fingalopendata