Data is also very important in other contexts: data on traffic or the climate has a direct impact on urban society and people's behavior. In addition, data also helps to secure existing knowledge and, through structured handling, can contribute to making work processes within the administration more efficient by providing easy access to reliable information.
With this in mind, the city administration of Bonn has adopted a data strategy and data governance for urban data and has set out to develop and establish an Urban Data Management (UDM) system.
In future, more data will be made available to citizens and the administration itself directly and in a quality-assured manner via the UDM. The principle of "open by default and open data" will serve as a guideline. The basic assumption is that urban data collected by the city administration will be made freely available to urban society as long as there are no legal regulations, such as the GDPR, to the contrary. The project is coordinated by the City of Bonn's Office for Land Management and Geoinformation.
An important step towards urban data management is the introduction of a metadata catalog that contains information about the available data. With the help of this catalog, users can search for information and view details such as the publication date, the regularity of updates or source information. The metadata record refers directly to the source of the data for further use.
So what is urban data?
Urban data is a variety of data that is collected in an urban context, for example
- Population data (age, education, mobility ...)
- Infrastructure data (traffic, road infrastructure, energy and water supply ...)
- Environmental and climate data (temperature, air quality, precipitation ...)
- Data on public services (local public transport, waste disposal, public facilities ...)
- Planning and local law (urban land-use planning, bylaws, protected areas ...)
- Basic geodata (real estate cadastre, aerial photographs, public addresses ...)
- Indicators (key figures for establishing measurability and comparability ...)
So what is a data strategy?
A data strategy is a public document that defines general principles for handling urban data. It serves as a guideline for the use and publication of data.
Data governance, on the other hand, is a document that sets out the rules for the use of urban data in the city administration. Data governance is an internal city administration document.
It is planned to make the first version of the urban data platform available to the public in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Further information on the Internet
More detailed information on Bonn's data strategy is published on the city's website: www.bonn.de/udm (opens in a new tab)
Feedback from the urban community can be sent to: datenstrategiebonnde