Focus Area: Smart Council

  • Council will lead by example, driving innovation internally and within the wider community

  • Smart technology and innovation will transform our people, processes and partnerships

  • Council will reach out to the community to drive community centred innovation

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To ensure data provides strategic value for Council and the community and is effectively collected, managed and protected to support stronger decision making and innovation

To integrate innovative thinking throughout Council processes and governance, to increase efficiencies and embed smart city outcomes into policies

To drive policy design and implementation through a productive and constructive smart city partnership environment

Casey's Open Data - accessible and publicly available data in one place

Part of our Smart City discovery has been looking at the datasets that we have available to us which are valuable to the community. Rather than keeping this data behind the customer service counter, we have released as much of it as we can through our Open Data Exchange Platform. Some of our most used datasets include:

Open data helps people source the information they need about their community quickly, easily and effectively.

Casey's Open Data Exchange was recognised by the MAV (Municipal Association of Victoria) Technology Awards for Excellence in 2022, by winning the Data and Insights award category. Read more here.

Building innovation capability within Council

At Casey, innovation is the mindset and approach to solving a challenge in a new, collaborative way that pushes the boundaries and adds tangible value to the Council and community.

The Innovation Team sits within the Smart City and Innovation Team. They aim to build innovation capability in teams and create value for our community.

An internal Innovation Program was developed for City of Casey staff and launched in 2021, aiming to increase the innovation maturity of the organisation, whilst delivering value for the community by supporting teams to apply innovation tools and processes to strategically aligned projects.

Program initiatives include Innovation Bootcamp, Innovation Consulting, Strategic Innovation for Leaders, and Innovation Training Workshops. With support from innovation facilitators, project teams explore their challenge and ideate, prototype and test solutions to deliver validated outcomes for Council and the community.

Learn more about some of the projects that have been supported by the Innovation Program here.