With relatively little funding, Plymouth Council is turning the city into a regional tech hub by opening up its data for private sector innovators. Data Plymouth, a data centre for the council, runs "Data Play Days," hackathon-style events which allow local businesses to experiment with council data and create services or products. The council is also opening its own data to citizens with attractive data visualisations and a third-party-run data portal. Too small to attract the attention of any big funding bodies, Plymouth is showing how provincial cities can develop new industries. Now more local bodies are approaching Data Plymouth to open their own data to the city.

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