Building intelligent communities
We're supporting local innovation, job transformation, and meaningful data ownership - and we're looking for partners
Local skills, local solutions
Our Intelligent Communities initiative has been created in order to assess the impact of new data technologies and the Data Collaboration methodology on the ability of municipal teams to self-build digital services that offer next-generation data protection.
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Each pilot project will introduce a unique mix of partners who support our values of inclusive innovation and meaningful data ownership.
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Building local capacity
Public digital services represent crucial touch points in the lives of citizens, small businesses, and nonprofits.
But for municipal teams, the challenge of building, protecting, and auditing digital services can be daunting.
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The Intelligent Communities pilot has been created to demonstrate how Data Fabric technology and the Data Collaboration approach can help to overcome these barriers.
Getting ahead of regulatory change
The regulations that protect data in North America are changing rapidly, and over-reliance on fragmented SaaS tools represents an increasing operational risk (not to mention cost) to municipalities.
Self-building new digital services with Data Collaboration not only improves auditability and transparency on operational data, but enables all stakeholders (citizens, partners, suppliers) to retain meaningful control of the information they contribute to municipal solutions.
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AUDITABILITY
DELETION
PORTABILITY
CUSTODIANSHIP
CONSENT
CONTROL
Leading Data Fabric technology
The Intelligent Communities initiative will introduce Data Fabric technology as the focus for data-centric innovation. These self-hosted platforms unify information from legacy databases and SaaS tools, and new data is added and controlled directly by unlimited end users.
Data Fabrics support "Zero Copy Integration" which eliminates data replication and accelerates delivery times.
This is about inclusive innovation
Data is a universal language. That's why Data Collaboration offers a more inclusive approach to building new digital services compared with code-centric (or "full stack") approaches.
This enables everyone from spreadsheet folks to database admins to join forces with data scientists and AI/ML tools to build new apps, systems, automations, and dashboards.
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This is about local empowerment
Participating municipalities will identify a digital service to be built, protected, deployed, and tracked by local teams. Candidate projects may include:
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Contactless services
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Healthcare systems
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Education systems
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Voting systems
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Sustainability solutions
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360 views of anything
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Automations and bots
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Analytics / dashboards
Taking a flexible approach
Every community is different, so our pilot projects will assemble the right mix of coalition partners for activities including market research, change management, training, design, intellectual property, and compliance .
In terms of financing, our projects can operate within existing municipal programs with customized contribution arrangements from our partners, or we can work with municipalities to secure funding via regional and/or federal programs.
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MUNICIPAL PARTNERS WELCOME
North American municipalities are invited to discuss local projects and teams who could be a good match for the Intelligent Communities initiative.
Leading North American organizations can apply to join our coalition and support the advancement of inclusive innovation and meaningful data ownership within local communities.
Cloud
Hosting
Our coalition will include leading cloud infrastructure partners to support the shift to cloud-based services.
Change
Partners
We want to work with leading change management experts to support the transition to local self-build.
Project
Partners
Project activities will be managed, tracked, assessed, and audited by qualified project management teams.
Training
Partners
Leading skills delivery organizations will support the transition to the Data Collaboration methodology.
Planning
Partners
Our coalition will include consultations from leading university teams that focus on long-range municipal planning.
Legal
Partners
The coalition will include support from legal teams to consult on contracts, compliance, and intellectual property.
Research
Partners
Our coalition will include contributions from local colleges and universities on market and stakeholder research.
Design
Partners
Pilot projects will include input from leading UI/UX specialists to help design amazing end user experiences.
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