 Thank you so much for for being here My name is Hector Dominguez. I am the open data coordinator for the city of Portland It's actually a pleasure to be here. I'm enjoying a lot of these talks conversations with the new people and This is exciting. So I'm gonna be sharing a little bit. This this title is it's just a catchy title to be honest Because I'm working with open data and I'm working in the government So we sort of need to pitch that yeah, what we are doing in government is really going to do some change the reality sometimes that is that Government in general is a sluggish And it's really hard to change things in government and it's a challenge now that technology is just evolving so fast that That we are really working really hard in in changing the culture inside the Different organizations in the government so everybody can start like be ready for for change, but at the same time Do the work that local governments or the local government should be doing so anyway So it's a little bit of all that is an issue now as a question there I'm gonna start with So from where I'm coming from so I'm originally from Mexico and And one way to introduce myself that I'm very proud and actually I don't do very often But here for these these projects that we've started it back in 2007-2008 in Mexico in the in the mountains mostly in the actually in Zapatista communities There and then it just Went over to different places We were actually trying experimenting with semantic web back back then in 2008 We have all these different architecture where we were going to the goal that we had back then was to to promote the idea of community-owned science and technology centers basically and The way that we were just envisioning that was to create those community centers So the local knowledge could stay there with resources and Empowering people locally and then build a network around those different centers so we can share information Of what everybody was doing in an open knowledge kind of a structure And and we got to to meet like so many people there and work with different communities will learn so much but then So our project was called to get as leverage of arts and technology of the that with open worship of arts and technology to get as leverage the artist in technology as in the Spanish and and yeah, we got to work with so many people learn so many experiences and As some of those projects is still ongoing However, personally like you stood me here to Portland and And Anyway, so we we had all this idea around metadata and then building on top of the real community needs back then So how technology and information can actually Or could actually empower those communities and and make the all the these community dynamics more more rich and I'm more powerful internally, right Anyway, so but back here in Portland and now in my role as as a bureaucrat I suppose so I'm actually so we is the team and why part of the smart cities team and and smart cities in import smart cities was actually To be frank is it was the term or is the term that was crafted by the private sector To sell the stuff to cities to government right now in in cities Different city teams. We are actually trying to claim that term and try to change it so we can really Represent what government should be doing right so for instance, this is just kind of the dream We shouldn't forget that well how what is the the future that we want to see Portland particularly is is just the homeless homelessness crisis Housing affordability is obviously one of the big priorities and what about having this in 2030 knew something like that right for those who are local so street roots is that Publication and organization that supports People who are going through a houseless situation. So Portland defeats how Homelessness in 2030 or Portland has reached this hundred percent clean energy by by then So actually the city has this big goal of being hundred percent renewable energy by 2050 and Then yeah, we have a real the smart city that works for everybody So this is kind of the expectation when we're talking about the smart cities and data and business intelligence So we should be building this is my government. So we can start Doing real Good better decisions each time right however The things are not always as we expect right so the reality is that we have we need to work with a lot of that Right the spreadsheets PDFs Information inside emails. So everything is this aggregated. Everybody Go through silos particularly the city of Portland has this very It's a particular form of government where so our city commissioners are Assigned by function and not by district. That means that every city commissioner has on their Hair or his portfolio in number of bureaus. So at the end of the day this end So we have rather having only one major we in reality We have five different majors that we have to be dealing with decision-making and trying to build a citywide programs with Everybody I try to convince everybody that things are good So in other hands, so we live in in this data rich society Every right now everything as we have seen and we are very aware is goes around data There are so many different stories about that abuse biases and From the corporate TV war narratives around the big brother Like government that is just like surveillance and punishing very specific demographics Particularly Those who are more vulnerable and then Is it's quite the challenge, right? So data is not the same for everybody, right? So some people see data as an asset. So that Narrative comes mostly from the private sector, right? So we we tried to build an economy around data and And particularly this graph comes from this study from the European Union where they Give a different value according to the economic Opportunity for open data in different specific categories, right? So geographic information all the way to cultural content at the end So digital data digital life, so it's what we are right now So we have this digital shadow, right for those who have that Privilege, right? We have that digital shadow where all our Transactions that we are making all over the world. So what we buy in our grocery store how we if you live in a house That has an smart meters there. So all how you use energy how you use gas How you use water is actually recorded every five 15 minutes for instance Where you move if you are using an automatic way of payment for your transit or your transportation also Your cell phones are a way to surveillance and well, I'm preaching to the choir here However that can be also sources of empowerment. So these are local projects here in Portland So the organizations to me on the in your left side, I suppose So there is this callee energy focus Assessment so callee is this neighborhood in northeast Portland is mostly Latino families and Different advocacy groups have done this energy assessment for new affordable housing units. So they're basically so like they were asking I don't know like a hundred fifty Families on on on how they use energy and what is what they want energy to be to be part of their lives, right? on this side, so we have well in the middle we have also really Awesome project, which is called the right to root. So is that's done in North Portland is mostly? African-American Communities that have been displaced and with that and information this project is trying to to make the point For those families who have the right to return to those neighborhoods, right? And on this side, so there is another Trans-transit and transportation assessment done by this organization mostly go up and they do environmental justice work and And all of them are community-based Projects right the city perhaps has some claim on on supporting financially This project and a bit of that But this is just community-based so that can be empowerment and they are through the nation through the world There are so many other projects inspiring projects as well So in government Dada in reality, we can see this digital commons, right? where and mostly because of the rules of transparency and accountability and And so I'm gonna go really really fast the next portion And this is another way to as digital commons They they have in the way that we can govern commons is Has all the issues around around that so that is all that and more Open data so you can see some of the features of all the principles what open data should be Around here. However, the the value of open data is when it starts being linked uh-huh when we start making those connections between one data set to another and and and all these different principles come actually from from Around the 2000s right early 2000s where people start started looking into how The value now of a highly linked data in all the our different communities. However, when we have now this new scenario Dada is is really more strategic, but also some issues around privacy around trust to start being like coming up more So Going to what the city is doing. This is a general kind of map ecosystem of of our data management system We have our data lake in the middle of Portland is testing we are testing actually cloud services Just to provide some services internal to the city. These are all the different bureaus here the city also has a number of sensor networks around that has to have Collect information around transit energy economic development air quality and etc environmental measures and then So some we tried to build some data analytics resources, which is quite challenging Because that implies cultural change. Well, it's a whole Story and then on this side. So we're trying also to build the the uses of that all that information. So who's going to be utilizing all these here, which is Part of the government part of the comments. So our regional government. So Portland is actually for those who are not here from here Portland has three different counties and therefore We have this metro government Regional governments that tries to coordinate with all different counties and then around Portland There are different important Municipalities as well that we interact and around all these urban area There is the rural area that provides a lot of resources and services to the urban area. So We are trying to we are envisioning building all these big ecosystem Data inventories Standards or standardizing all that nested system nested ways of building Embedded information within all here and I can just go go really really technical on that I'm gonna skip that we're trying to automate all these different process. So at the end So we have something that we can trust We have a So this is all the time we are working on that But the idea is to have all this assessment where we can actually evaluate that integrity privacy checks and the equity of the social Impacts that we can actually a data set can actually have Licensing models to make sure that it's open and actually people can utilize that so different layers around all that so Governing governing all that from the digital perspective has all these different challenges, right? So also these very specific topic we can just go so deep But it goes into the the tragedy of the common for instance issues around special there's dilemma and they all these collective action Or or how all these various special or the specific interest groups are actually trying to manipulate the How the decisions and the management of all data is being done in the city? So things that end up at the end of having just technocrats making decisions on how different communities Who are not on the table of the decision are actually being impacted so There is a number of issues around and we try to embed in like that social Equity values and ethics around all that What we are built how we are? Building all these technological solutions and then of course the complexity of Managing all that and looking into the social issues that we want to resolve that's We shouldn't never forget about that so data is not the same for all and I'm really apologize. This is so bunches articles around how Data can actually harm people who are Oversurveiled but also those who are under surveying so those who are invisible to data Where are we doing all these new digital world, right? On Internet the consequences bunch of examples here and I apologize. I'm gonna jump there So we need to build in privacy and privacy audits on all these so we make sure that That we are protecting people's data and information and I'm glad that this this example came out Bias and information so how Decision-making is actually impacted by whose programming the sources of data and information Where is this running? Who's having access to that information and who's not participating of all that? So community engagement is core for all these what we are doing Open data ownership responsible that the management that those are core principles and then So we really need to manage data differently. We are trying to Build off connections of relationship with our community members We understand also that that that's a burden for many community groups because they are already really They are doing a lot with their like the scarcity of resources that some of them have So we are trying to balance. We are trying to support those relationships that help the community in up to some extent so Understanding who the stakeholders are that's actually really important and how we can get these feedback from from community, right? Either from different ways in of civic engagement, which some of the like the coding community is part of it But that's not the only one and how we can make accountable all these decisions on how technology can be used and At the end it's really it really a Co-evolution right a co-evolution between where the private sector is suffering to government But also how in the government we are actually managing all these new challenges in front of us People individuals who are also understanding the new relationships with technology and information and the world in general how the world is changing around all of us and and all the organizations that have some service to the community in different ways, right and So at the end we're trying to get to this kind of place where where people can have access to information we can get Mine in a meaningful mining of all this information generate value to to our communities and our agencies as well And we love thank you so much