Digital technology is changing the way we live our lives in areas such as banking, entertainment, education and tourism. This technology also has the capacity to transform civic society – including democratic participation, citizen journalism and supporting local communities. National and Local Governments around the world are opening up the data that they hold for reuse by others. The reuse of Open Government Data facilitates transparency, participation, collaboration and economic development. The aim of Code for Ireland is to bring together people from local communities, software developers and people working in government in order to develop apps and services that solve community problems and also to enable open government. The first Code for Ireland chapter has been established in Dublin and in the coming years additional chapters will be established in other Irish cities and towns.

1. Code for Ireland
Frontline Conversations@SAUL
School of Architecture, University of Limerick
25th February, 2014
Dominic Byrne
@dominic _ _ byrne

2. Vision
To develop apps and services that
solve community problems and to
enable government to become
more open.

3. digital transformation

4. banking
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37430158@N05/8240150011/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitez/9481669689

5. travel

6. entertainment

7. social
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jasonahowie/858394921

8. technologies

9. communications infrastructure

10. ubiquitous computing
https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/statuses/426343067935719424

11. location

12. user generated content
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greencolander/2503742560/

13. data
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14. government & society

16. motor tax
http://motortax.ie/

17. transport
http://transportforireland.ie/

18. egovernment
http://egovstrategy.gov.ie/

19. digital strategy
http://digitaldublin.ie

20. smart city – smart planet
http://www.digitalbirmingham.co.uk/

21. open government partnership
http://www.ogpireland.ie/

23. participatory budgeting

24. participatory policy making

25. deliberation

26. community mapping
http://healthmap.ie/

27. service rating

28. service design
http://openplans.org/work/shareabouts/

29. open data

30. what?
. public data
. open formats
. machine readable
. accessible
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

31. why?
. transparency
. participation
. collaboration
. economic development

32. U.S. government
http://data.gov

33. U.K. government
http://data.gov.uk

34. worldwide

35. Fingal Open Data Video
http://www.slideshare.net/FingalOpenData/fingal-open-data-video

36. fingal open data
http://data.fingal.ie

37. dublinked
http://dublinked.ie

38. local government
clare
sligo
limerick
http://www.clarecoco.ie/your-council/opendata/
http://opendata.limerick.ie/
roscommon
http://www.roscommoncoco.ie/en/Services/Maps/Google_Earth_Files/
http://www.sligococo.ie/Opendata/
galway
http://www.galway.ie/en/Services/MapZone/GoogleEarth/

39. census
http://data.cso.ie

40. marine
http://data.marine.ie

41. government policy
. G8 open data charter
. open data board
. implementation group
. open data portal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronanone/802918511/

42. volunteering

43. meitheal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/museumwales/2550232039

44. tidy towns
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walhalla/519940314

45. wikipedia
http://wikipedia.org

46. openstreetmap
http://openstreetmap.org

47. http://ushahidi.com

48. syria tracker
https://syriatracker.crowdmap.com/

49. http://mysociety.org/

50. http://open311.org/

51. cognitive surplus
“the world has
over a trillion
hours a year of
free time to
commit to shared
projects”
- Clay Shirky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ClayShirkyJI1.jpg

52. Raw Data Now
A year of open data
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/tim_berners_lee_the_year_open_data_went_worldwide.html

53. ireland

54. http://kildarestreet.com/

55. http://fixyourstreet.ie/

56. http://fixmystreet.ie/

57. http://whoismytd.com/

58. fingal day tripper
http://fingaldaytripper.33eels.com/

59. urban rural
http://urbanrural.herokuapp.com/

60. http://ceall.com/mobile.html

61. code for america

62. apps
http://codeforamerica.org/apps/free.html

69. code for ireland

70. developers
contribute skills to
create apps that make
a positive difference
in local communities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/heylen/4310529876/

71. government workers
contribute subject-matter
knowledge to identification
of challenges & solutions,
and identify potential data
sources for apps

72. communities
contribute knowledge of
issues affecting people in
their everyday lives –
living, working and leisure
– and how these might be
addressed
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aerosolhalos/5134485529/

73. queuing app

74. defibrillator app

75. business locator app

76. ideas for apps
1
Location of NAMA Buildings - potential business locations
3D Development Plan/Community Spaces
Business Proposition App (Demographics) + Where Can I Locate My Business
2
Queuing App for Government Services
3
Lifesaver/Defibrillator App
24/7 Pharmacy/Doctor Finder
4
Match Up Community Volunteers with FixYourStreet problems
FixyourStreet (Suggested Improvements) App
Graffiti Voting App
5
Rolling Area Plan/Service Provision App (inc Feedback)
6
Dublinography (Neighbourhood/Place Mapping - see bostonography.com)
7
App Catalogue for City
8
Grants/Funding/Best practice App/Pack
9
Family Friendly What's Happening App
10
Safety in the City (Safe Places/Routes/Crime)
11
Historical Locations App (Tour)
Crowdsourcing Heritage/Tourism
12
Free WiFi HotSpots
13
Dublin Bikes App
http://www.flickr.com/photos/guilhermy/217598248

77. 2014 targets
. 10 meetups
. 5 apps
. 3 cities/towns

78. Code for Ireland
Frontline Conversations@SAUL
School of Architecture, University of Limerick
25th February, 2014
Dominic Byrne
@dominic _ _ byrne

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