Open Data Innovations for Social Good

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CHALLENGE
INITIAL
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Scoping Application Creation Weekend Incubation
FINALISTS
3 teams win
5,000
1 team wins
40,000
TBC
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announced
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Winner
announced today!
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The Challenge:
How can open data:
increase community involvement with
the criminal justice system
create further evidence for what are
effective interventions for
rehabilitation
address the rise in personal crime
CheckThatBike!
www.checkthatbike.co.uk
Whats the big deal with Bike Theft?
Around 500,000 bikes are stolen every year costing the UK over 1 billion.
The problem is so bad that the average new bike owner
can expect to have their bike stolen in under 23 months.
Victims often feel that the police will do nothing to help
them, leading to only 1 in 4 thefts being reported.
Bike theft is one of the biggest reasons for giving up
cycling second only to road safety
Victims often told by police not to expect it back,
and to look at local markets and online classifieds
London Bike Thefts May-July 2013
So how do we plan to solve it?
Like any industry thefts are driven by demand, the suppliers (thieves/fences) aim to
make a profit and in the current used bike market this is easily accomplished.
Check That Bike is a service that aims to change this by providing an answer to the
question is that bike stolen? to potential buyers of used bikes.
Uses frame numbers and unique IDs to query whether a bike is stolen
Information comes from both police forces and commercial sources
Extra advice available to help buyers avoid stolen goods
The Netherlands took a similar approach and halved bike thefts in
3 years.
Impact so far
17,000 visitors since January
6,000 checks
653 stolen bikes identified
Recovering property worth 174,351
Indirectly benefiting the UK by 1.3
million
New public API used by 29 developers
Open data initiative supported by 5,500
cyclists
Deprive a thief of a
safe and ready
market for his
goods, and he is
undone
Patrick Colquhoun,
A Treatise on the Police of the
Metropolis, 1796
The Future

We are currently working with a Solicitor to obtain data from a selection of Police
Forces in the UK on a regular basis.

We are currently working with classified websites and cycling websites to integrate
checking functionality within their own service.

Embarking on a campaign to promote the service and introduce the idea that
buying stolen goods is not an acceptable thing to do.
CheckThatBike!
www.checkthatbike.co.uk
The Challenge:
How can open data help parents make
informed choices about their children's
education in one (or more) of three key
areas:
1. Expressing a preference for a school
2. Choosing a subject or other learning
priorities
3. Engaging with their childrens learning
MIME Consulting is a specialist education data consultancy founded
in 2007 (hence, we already knew this data!)
Passionate about the impact that data & technology can have on
young peoples lives
Normally work with schools and local authorities a new challenge
to work with parents
Steve
Project Lead
Phil
Technical Lead
Miranda
Project Support
Tom
Data Analyst
Richard
Design
Year 12
students of
school each year
AS grades
are each year

of 16-24 year
olds are

We have started to implement the feedback from user testing, but

more needs to be done
A. Find results with minimal input
What is my average grade?
Dont know what subjects to choose?
B. View providers, pathways & subjects
C. Link to Higher Education Options
D. Link to Career Options
Did you know? Getting maths A Level will make
you more attractive to employers.
Initially working with three Year 10
students to build wireframes
Then rebuild the site from the ground up!
Pilot with schools in 2 Local Authorities
Promotion starts after the pilot
The Challenge:
How can open data support
communities to either:
Group buy their energy and save
money;
Undertake community based
energy efficiency interventions; or
Start to generate their own energy.
Energy Benchmarking
Plus
Community
Energy
Manager
EnergySchools
1. Innovation
2. Likely societal (social, environmental or economic)
impact in relation to the challenge problem
3. Extent of use of open data and how effectively this
has been incorporated into the project
4. Potential market for, and sustainability of, an ongoing
business
Judging Criteria
And the winner is...
Community Energy Manager
Community Energy Manager
Community Energy Manager
the future of community retrofit
Community Energy Manager
Summary
Community Energy Manager is an online tool to help
community groups to support their local area by facilitating
large scale retrofit projects and bulk purchasing.
CEM will help groups to develop into viable social enterprises
with regular income streams.
Community Energy Manager
The problem
83% of households in our communities are
bypassed funding for energy efficiency
Community Energy Manager
The problem
Community Groups
Potential to build stronger communities and local
solutions to reducing fuel poverty and CO
2
emissions
Lack of business models to generate long-term income
Community Energy Manager
The solution
An online tool to help community groups deliver:
at scale
defined timescale
geographically constrained
single point of contact
Community Energy Manager
How does it work?
Open data helps identify areas of need
Community groups log interactions (surveys etc.)
Identify potential projects, e.g. 500 new boilers
CEM brokers a deal with an installer
Community group receives referral fees
Community Energy Manager
The solution
Community Energy Manager
The solution
Community Energy Manager
Social Impact short term
Energy Efficiency
More energy efficient homes and businesses
More demand and confidence in retrofit market
Community Groups
Increased knowledge and capacity
Established business models
More groups established and active
Community Energy Manager
Business Model
Income sources
% of referral fees from ECO/GD projects
% of discount from bulk purchasing
targeted advertising by retailers
reporting and evaluation management services for funders
(e.g. DECC)
services to researchers working with open
datasets/community groups
Community Energy Manager
Conclusion
High, measurable impact jobs, CO
2
Develops new market
Builds & shares knowledge
Financially sustainable
Community Energy Manager
Next steps
Develop and user test software
Engage community groups
Broker deals with providers/installers
Community Energy Manager
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