Although open efforts have an impact on all governmental layers, we've seen huge advancements on a local level. In this break-out session we invite three experts who talk about different subjects and focus points. Antwerp is focusing on Open Services, The city of Ghent is advancing with Linked Open Data projects and Timble is building an open platform for local police. If you need inspiration to introduce open efforts in your city, then this is the session you need to attend.

Create your own awsome citizen apps, using the Antwerp City Platform as a Service (“ACPaaS”): a set of reusable Engines with open APIs - Greet Brosens

The city of Antwerp and Digipolis are building an Open, User-centric City Platform as the foundation for personalized, any-device public services.It will be open to internal and external developers.The goal of the session is to present the Platform’s principles & architecture, the central API-SDK-engine & the Developer portal, some available open engines and the link with the Apps from Antwerp contest

The City of Ghent as Linked Open Data - Ann Bernaert

A city is a complicated matter. Is often hard to estimate the needs and relations between people, organisation, events and places. Yet it is the task of the city council to be vigilant and make decisions based on what citizens really need. And although a city has a lot of data, this data is often not connected with each other, nor is it comparable. Which unables us to build a datamodel that contains a full picture of life in a city... Or does it? The semantic web has been the subject of many academic research papers. Thanks to the impuls of Open Data, real life examples of Linked Open Data (and thus the semantic web) can help to model complex problems. The city of Ghent started as the first Belgian city with a pilot project about Linked Open Data.

The open government platform of the Belgian Police - Tom Janssens

This presentation will highlight the 10 design principles behind the Open Government Platform of the Belgian Police. The platform aims to be a high level blueprint for the design of government and specifically Police web technology based open source technologies. It leverages open data streams and provides resources that others can use. It is being developed on a result basis using an agile development methodology, with a focus on proof through doing and constant testing.

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