Montevideo's Data Strategy
Montevideo's Data Strategy aims to generate a greater impact on management both within the organization, as well as on the citizenry itself.
OBJECTIVES
Montevideo's Data Strategy aims to generate a greater impact on management both within the organization, as well as on citizens, by improving the decisions generated from a data culture based on management transparency and the continuous search for innovative solutions.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIONS CARRIED OUT
Data is the raw material for evidence-based decision making. The key is to collect data from all possible sources and to have mechanisms for its storage, which in turn can be shared among all agencies and with citizens. This includes having a City Data Inventory, as well as the creation of the Montevideo Observatory and the Open Data and Services Portal.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
The permanent support from the authorities, starting with the mayor herself, and the conviction on the part of the officials in the adoption of this policy.
MAIN RESULTS ACHIEVED
Work has been carried out throughout 2022 and until March 2023 in a “What Work Cities” certification process regarding the management of a data-driven city by Bloomberg Philanthropies. As a result of this process, the need to create a Data Committee has been perceived, with people from the different departments of the Municipality. In addition, the first thematic observatories (in environmental and health areas) have been implemented within the framework of the Montevideo Observatory, which includes different types of indicators and visualizations. Likewise, the Open Data Portal has been relaunched and the Open Services Portal (Montevideo API) was created, where the use and publication of different APIs for the creation of applications by third parties using services developed by the Municipality itself is promoted.
Barcelona Provincial Council's Smart Region Platform
IoT-based technological platform at the service of the Barcelona Provincial Council that allows storing and analysing territorial data to improve local governance.
OBJECTIVES
Implement a technological platform based on IoT at the service of the municipalities of the province of Barcelona that allows storing and analysing territorial data to improve local governance in terms of innovation (new knowledge, new applications, etc.), efficiency (real-time data management, control of services and suppliers, etc.) and transparency.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIONS CARRIED OUT
The Barcelona Provincial Council offers this platform as a multi-entity service in the cloud. The municipalities that request this service can connect sensors that they have in their territory and connect them to this platform, thus being able to store, manage and analyse the data sent by the devices. Some of the connected sensors are the following: electricity, gas and water consumption monitoring sensors, electric power generation sensors, irrigation management sensors, mobility, municipal fleet management, garbage container sensors, noise sensors, air quality sensors, temperature, pedestrian flow, etc.
KEY SUCCESS FACTORS
By making use of this platform, urban projects have a greater potential for replicability and transferability to other cities since they adopt the same standard language (the same API "Application Protocol Interface" and data standardization) for all cities in the territory, which facilitates implementation from the public sector, as well as the provision of services from the private sector. Similarly, another key factor is the sharing of information between municipalities so that technical managers can share knowledge.
MAIN RESULTS ACHIEVED
67 municipalities in the province are using the platform with more than 14,000 connected sensors. This has enabled increased cooperation between different levels of government and municipalities. In addition, some data is public, thus improving transparency and collaboration. The data sent to the platform is used by the different teams from different areas of each municipality for the management of different services (Environment, Urbanism and Mobility, Infrastructures, etc.). The Barcelona Provincial Council conducts annual surveys on the service provided by the platform to the municipalities, and the feedback collected is generally positive.