Experiment with free and open access to de-identified data from the future Darwin city smart city platform

Summary

• Switching on Darwin was funded by The Australian Government, Northern Territory (NT) Government and City of Darwin
• Empowering businesses, governments, and people to make data-driven decisions for increasing prosperity and citizen wellbeing.
• The City of Darwin Open Data Hub includes (but is not limited to) datasets on public wi-fi, parks and facilities, transportation, street food, administration, infrastructure, environmental and utilities.
• The City of Darwin delivered educational sessions between October 2019 and March 2020 regarding the Switching on Darwin initiative.

Outcome

• Meetings have been held with the City of Darwin ‘Smart Cities’ project representatives.
• Information sessions were provided to business and industry in 2019 through the Business Innovation Network NT.
• Hosted three Charles Darwin University Masters graduate students who assisted with undertaking a project to increase commercial applications of data held by NT Government to contribute to the platform.
• In the early stages of Switching on Darwin, there was data being shared on the Civica Analytica platform between NT Government and the vendor.

Useful links

• Smart Darwin City Intelligence Dashboard
• Smart Darwin strategy

News items

• 5 February 2020 - The Conversation: Darwin’s ‘smart city’ project is about surveillance and control 
• 19 June 2019 - Smart Cities World: Darwin completes Australia's largest smart city project.