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.