LOTI: Weeknote 18
LOTI Data Projects
On Monday we attended a Socrata Data Analytics Use Cases masterclass led by Oliver Wise, which was kindly hosted by Sudip Trivedi and Fozlu Miah at Camden. The masterclass was attended by staff in data and service roles in LOTI member boroughs and other Offices of Data Analytics (ODAs) and was designed to help them identify concrete, impactful use cases for data analytics.
Oliver spoke about the need for data experts to express a level of realism when sharing the capabilities of data with colleagues. Data analytics is not a silver bullet that untangles every service complication.
Rather, with the right tools and frameworks, data experts could help service leads to source opportunities and identify promising use cases. Participants were talked through six problem types Oliver developed while Director of the Office of Performance of Accountability in New Orleans, and invited to consider opportunities to use data to find needles in haystacks, develop early warning tools, and optimise their resource allocation, among others. Participants were excited to explore ideas from how data on Non-Accidental Injuries can help inform early interventions in child social care to how it can help identify businesses in need of early advice on increasing their exports and productivity.
Oliver ended the workshop by getting participants to use Socrata’s Data Analytics Project Canvas. This is a useful tool that can help identify potential data projects and define: 1) who the user is, 2) who the stakeholders are, 3) what resources are needed, and 4) what are the key deliverables.
For more information on the workshop and Socrata’s tools, please feel free to contact Oliver Wise directly.
Mayor of London’s Civic Innovation Challenge
In the evening, we attended the launch of the Mayor’s Civic Innovation Challenge 2019 at Microsoft’s flagship store on Oxford Street.
This year’s Challenge offers the technology community an opportunity to collaborate with the public sector to tackle three of London’s most pressing problems: 1) counter-terrorism and violent extremism online, 2) democratise planning and tackle the housing crisis, 3) improve the efficiency of freight in London.
Three winners will be awarded £40,000 each to develop their solutions and will also benefit from workshops and training sessions with a group of public and private sector partners.
Assistive Technology
On Wednesday morning, we supported Priya Javeri to host our Assistive Technology workshop in Newham. The objective of the workshop was to work together with social care experts to develop an evaluation framework that could consistently measure the impact and effectiveness of AT pilots deployed in LOTI member boroughs. A summary of the workshop can be found here.
City Tools
That evening, we launched City Tools in partnership with Bloomberg Associates at Big Data London.
City Tools is a report and interactive dashboard that maps London boroughs’ technologies, contracts and IT capabilities to activate cost-savings and upskilling across London’s boroughs.
We will be publishing a blog tomorrow outlining the key findings and our next steps.
Coming up this week
This week we will be:
- Engaging with social care leads in LOTI member boroughs to test our prototype AT evaluation framework and Information Governance (IG) leads to finalise our 7-step approach to IG.
- Finalising arrangements and discussion points for our next All-Member workshop and the first meeting of LOTI’s Advisory Panel, both on 26 November.
- Speaking at the Smart City World Congress Barcelona 2019 and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy’s Festival of Ideas 2019.
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