IODC18

Cities present the greatest potential for open data to result in transparency and social or economic impact as they are hubs for creativity, skilled labour, and investment, making them natural sources of new open data-based solutions. The smart city trend provides even greater opportunities for open data-driven transparency and economic growth while presenting a number of risks to transparency, accountability, and data ownership. This session presents an urban lens to open data, reflecting in particular on discussions from the Open Cities Summit on designing open data programs to solve civic problems, using open procurement data to deliver results, the changing roles of advocates in open smart cities, and global open cities initiatives to strengthen climate change resilience. The audience will be invited to discuss the tensions between open data principles and urgent development needs in cities, and the opportunities to scale city networks in the global open data movement