Service: Dublinked

Responsible organisation: Smart Dublin (Governmental)

Dublinked illustrates how to foster citizen empowerment and government transparency while nurturing economic and technological development. As releasing open data in cities raises many technical, legal, cultural and organisational challenges, Dublinked provides lessons for other cities willing to open their data and, through that, foster new digital businesses. Dublinked also illustrates how to design a balanced local partnership for these aims, involving 4 local authorities of the region, in partnership with the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) and a transnational IT corporation (IBM). Moreover, from an urban policy perspective, Dublinked is a flagship in a new generation of ‘soft’ local economic development initiatives. Dublinked distinguishes itself from other open data initiatives by i) proactively supporting the formation of new communities of innovators and ii) by promoting the release of complex (yet potentially more valuable) types of datasets based on data streams, live feeds, etc.

Additional information

Source A multi-dimensional framework to evaluate the innovation potential of digital public services: A step towards building an Innovative Public Services Observatory in the EU
Web site https://data.smartdublin.ie/
Start/end date 2011 - 2017
Still active? No

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