Just a couple of supplementary slides I did for a conference on open data to support open cities. Was used alongside http://www.slideshare.net/greebo/australian-open-data-presentation-v20

1. ● Demographic – pop growth, characteristics
● Households – energy, water usage, AC, internet
● Facilities – schools, transport, sports, utilities
● Health – water quality, diseases, services
● Spending – grants, contracts, budgets
● Environment – weather, water flows, LandSat,
flora, fauna
● Construction – development applications,
● Law – crime, legislation, crime
● Democracy – parliament, Hansard
● Transport – roads, public transport, traffic flows
● Land – property ownership, GIS, underground
● Sensor data – agriculture, cities
● Councils, States/Territories, Federal

2. Challenges
● Some pushback from jurisdictions
– eg. Cancer statistics
● Inconsistency in data
● Open standards you need to buy
● Siloed nature of gov, academic, industry
But.... cities and governments need to either
adapt or render themselves less relevant and less
responsive to changing times.

3. Opportunities
● Global collaboration across myriad disciplines
● More capacity for data driven decision making
● Ability to be more resilient and responsive
● Greater access to gov than ever before
● Powerful society
● Modern tools and methods
Open: data; cities; boundaries; standards; collaboration
Open Societies