Birmingham Smart City Commission Nikki Spencer – Digital Projects Manager, Digital Birmingham Celebrating Research and Partnership Working – Thursday 15 October

Overview Role of Digital Birmingham  Lead on digital and smart city strategy and implementation  Increasing digital capabilities  Accelerating access and use of open data  Devising digital inclusion activities  Driving investment in digital infrastructure  Leading smart cities development

Established Smart City Commission: Chaired by Cllr. Lisa Trickett – Cabinet Lead, Sustainable City Collaboration of partners Set vision and approach

Smart city principles Intelligent & integrated approach Use of digital technologies and ICT Collaborative and open approach Optimize use of resources Co-produce with the city and its people

Accelerating city outcomes Economic prosperity Stimulate Enterprise Sustainable Growth Better Quality Of Life Civic Engagement Smart City Commission 2 overarching priorities  Healthy Ageing  Economically active people Mobility Skills Health & Wellbeing

COMMISSION AIMS “The Birmingham Smart City Commission has committed to support a Smart City spatial demonstrator in East Birmingham The aim is to embed Smart City principles (release, use and access to data, integration and use of digital technologies; and strong citizen / business engagement ) to support economic growth and reduce inequalities

CHALLENGE: Low skills; high unemployment; large inequalities – health, social & economic OPPORTUNITIES: High proportion of core employment and untapped potential of place – increase opportunity for people to connect to education, training, jobs and social opportunities to contribute to a better and more sustainable way of life PRIORITIES: Quality of place; health & mobility

Priorities  Working with the Future Cities Catapult  Integrated approach scalable and replicable  Increase potential of people to connect to education, training, jobs and social activities to create better and more sustainable way of life  Smart City Commission overarching priorities – Healthy Ageing & Economic activity embedding smart city principles  Demonstrator priorities centered on quality of place, health & mobility  Focus that would be replicable and scalable to other areas  Create conditions / behaviour change for people to be healthier, happier and more economically active  Create more conditions for social, economic interaction  Create evidence base for most effective investments and interventions

POTENTIAL ROADMAP AMBITION “We will work with local people and businesses to design a small number of projects East Birmingham that change perceptions of the area, the way people move around the area and the health and life chances of people that live there”

A Roadmap framework for East Birmingham Working with civic and tech innovators; act on innovative and entrepreneurial ides; generate commercialisable products and services Universities and Future Cities Catapult - analysing and modelling of the data to enable Council, business and communities to understand area; support and build innovative products and services Benefits – enable collaboration; create evidence base; understand what works; why it works and where else

Making it real - Data journey and mapping “ There is still more data that can be released, mores uses of data that can be demonstrated and more that can be done to improve data quality and literacy.” Open Data Roadmap for the UK - Open Data Institute, 2015  Shape around priorities & thinking for demonstrator  Whole journey approach  Day in the life – scenarios (needs, wants, challenges and pain points)  Data opportunities & insights  What data – as is  What if data- what difference  Who has what & who wants what?  Defining & shaping our data journey with partners – end goal and vision

“East Birmingham Smart City Demonstrator will enable citizens to pull, access and manipulate information that helps shape their lifestyles” SERVICES BCC Services underpinned by Data SERVICES BCC Services underpinned by Data RESEARCH & ANALYSIS Baseline using available Data RESEARCH & ANALYSIS Baseline using available Data ICT STRATEGY ‘ Unlock’ data & Data Quality Tools ICT STRATEGY ‘ Unlock’ data & Data Quality Tools DATA AUDIT ‘What, Where, Who & How’ DATA AUDIT ‘What, Where, Who & How’ East Birmingham Smart City Demonstrator Themes Health & Well-being Transport & Mobility Skills East Birmingham Smart City Demonstrator Themes Health & Well-being Transport & Mobility Skills

BIRMINGHAM’S SMART CITY DATA PROPOSITION

Supporting the FUTURE COUNCIL Enabling collaboration between community, business and public sector and integration of activity Creating the evidence base for the correct and most beneficial investments Understanding what works, why it works and where else in Birmingham it will work

CITIZEN IMPACT “The community has organised to deal with the little things that make the place better to live. It’s so much easier to move around the area now, I can’t believe I used to be stuck in the car all the time. Because more people use the canal, it’s easier to play on it and more people are working in the small businesses that have sprung up along the route. Because we have learnt more about what’s going on in the corridor, it’s much easier to get involved.”

ROADMAP NEXT STEPS Build a baseline – data, projects and programmes Establish a core team – enthusiasm, budget holders, Decision‐makers & do‐ers Integrate programmes and budgets and elevate ambition Understand the quick wins Co‐design mission and communication