The document discusses the role of citizens in contributing to and using public sector data to improve services. It provides examples of how social media data helped document events like the Arab Spring and London riots, and how analyzing resulting demographic data from criminal convictions could help target community services. The document advocates combining open data sources like road gritting schedules with mapping data to build applications that help citizens, like finding gritted routes.
Social media: Councils, citizens and service transformationIngrid Koehler
A discussion paper presented to the Local Government Delivery Council on how social media is changing the relationship between citizens and local public services, making the link between performance, insight and service transformation to achieve efficiency
The document discusses moving paper processes to more cost-effective online usage. It notes that paper usage contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and waste. It then discusses how digital communication and social media can help reduce paper usage and costs while improving engagement with citizens. Government services are now discussed online through social media rather than just websites.
Moving Paper Processes to More Cost-Effective Online UsageLiz Azyan
The document discusses reducing paper usage by moving processes online and engaging citizens digitally. It notes that about 25% of trash is paper and offices generate millions of tons of paper waste annually. Moving communication online through email and social media can cut costs while allowing two-way engagement with citizens. Integrating email, social media, and other digital channels provides opportunities for citizens to interact through their preferred means.
Putting the fizz back into door drops - 14 NovemberRachel Aldighieri
This document contains an agenda and presentations for an event on data protection and door drops. The agenda includes sessions on using data to understand door drops in the modern environment, media planning with door drops, creating impact with door drops, and a case study from Nuffield Health on their door drop experience. Presenters will discuss topics like what data tells us about door drop receptivity and effectiveness compared to other channels, how door drops can complement digital channels, and how data persuaded a marketing director to use door drops.
The document discusses how social media has impacted the print media industry. It provides background on the history of magazines, noting they originally targeted upper classes but diversified over time into many genres. While magazines disseminated information through physical copies, many have now switched to digital platforms to stay relevant. This switch was necessary for survival as social media allows convenient access to information anywhere. Though print magazines face challenges, some consumers still prefer physical copies, so print media could continue if production adapts to trends.
The survey found that 20% of people who visited The Greeley Tribune online would be willing to pay for online access. Younger and female readers were more likely to pay, as were Caucasian readers with some college education and a household income around $60,000. Features driving online readership included local news, events and user-generated content. Bundling print and online subscriptions could attract 40% of readers. The recommendations focus on marketing to younger females through social media and content about world news, activities, and reviews.
The document provides an overview of the author's new book "Data Dynamite" which argues that liberating data through greater transparency and accessibility will transform our world. The author discusses how data is currently locked away in warehouses inaccessible to most citizens and employees. However, initiatives like Data.gov are beginning to make more government data available. The book advocates for a strategic approach to transitioning organizations to be more data-centric and ensuring data is structured and tagged so it can be automatically shared and analyzed through visualization tools to generate insights.
Presentation on open data to the Association for Local Government IT Managers in New Zealand, 23 Nov 2010. Covers examples of open data applications, and what they in local government IT can be doing.
Social media: Councils, citizens and service transformationIngrid Koehler
A discussion paper presented to the Local Government Delivery Council on how social media is changing the relationship between citizens and local public services, making the link between performance, insight and service transformation to achieve efficiency
The document discusses moving paper processes to more cost-effective online usage. It notes that paper usage contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and waste. It then discusses how digital communication and social media can help reduce paper usage and costs while improving engagement with citizens. Government services are now discussed online through social media rather than just websites.
Moving Paper Processes to More Cost-Effective Online UsageLiz Azyan
The document discusses reducing paper usage by moving processes online and engaging citizens digitally. It notes that about 25% of trash is paper and offices generate millions of tons of paper waste annually. Moving communication online through email and social media can cut costs while allowing two-way engagement with citizens. Integrating email, social media, and other digital channels provides opportunities for citizens to interact through their preferred means.
Putting the fizz back into door drops - 14 NovemberRachel Aldighieri
This document contains an agenda and presentations for an event on data protection and door drops. The agenda includes sessions on using data to understand door drops in the modern environment, media planning with door drops, creating impact with door drops, and a case study from Nuffield Health on their door drop experience. Presenters will discuss topics like what data tells us about door drop receptivity and effectiveness compared to other channels, how door drops can complement digital channels, and how data persuaded a marketing director to use door drops.
The document discusses how social media has impacted the print media industry. It provides background on the history of magazines, noting they originally targeted upper classes but diversified over time into many genres. While magazines disseminated information through physical copies, many have now switched to digital platforms to stay relevant. This switch was necessary for survival as social media allows convenient access to information anywhere. Though print magazines face challenges, some consumers still prefer physical copies, so print media could continue if production adapts to trends.
The survey found that 20% of people who visited The Greeley Tribune online would be willing to pay for online access. Younger and female readers were more likely to pay, as were Caucasian readers with some college education and a household income around $60,000. Features driving online readership included local news, events and user-generated content. Bundling print and online subscriptions could attract 40% of readers. The recommendations focus on marketing to younger females through social media and content about world news, activities, and reviews.
The document provides an overview of the author's new book "Data Dynamite" which argues that liberating data through greater transparency and accessibility will transform our world. The author discusses how data is currently locked away in warehouses inaccessible to most citizens and employees. However, initiatives like Data.gov are beginning to make more government data available. The book advocates for a strategic approach to transitioning organizations to be more data-centric and ensuring data is structured and tagged so it can be automatically shared and analyzed through visualization tools to generate insights.
Presentation on open data to the Association for Local Government IT Managers in New Zealand, 23 Nov 2010. Covers examples of open data applications, and what they in local government IT can be doing.
The document summarizes the growth of digital native news organizations and their editorial staffing. It finds that over 468 digital native outlets have produced almost 5,000 full-time editorial jobs, filling some gaps left by job losses in legacy print and broadcast news. While this has not fully compensated for losses elsewhere, it represents a significant shift in journalism resources to new digital platforms. Questions remain about developing sustainable business models, but many see this rise of digital newsrooms as an important transformation in the media landscape.
This document discusses the emerging field of computational journalism and how computing technologies can enhance the journalism process and products. It provides examples of how tools like crime maps, fact-checking plugins, interactive data visualizations, and services that augment news websites can help journalists tell stories and help the public engage with news in new ways. The document argues that news organizations need to adopt computational approaches to keep up with changes in how people consume information and ensure transparency.
Using social media and open data, FearSquare personalized UK crime statistics for individual users based on their location check-ins from Foursquare. It provided crime data for a user's everyday locations without requiring them to manually search. FearSquare gained popularity with over 2,000 Foursquare users and 45,000 page views from 128 countries. However, it also raised issues around responsible data presentation and not causing unintended impacts on third parties. The experience highlighted the need for open data to be freely available in well-documented, machine-readable formats with metadata to enable innovative applications while avoiding data misrepresentation.
The document compares the carbon emissions of the US Postal Service to email. It finds that the USPS plans to reduce its petroleum use by 20% by 2015 and greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. In contrast, a study found that spam email produces over 17 million tons of CO2 emissions per year, with 80% of energy used searching for and deleting spam. While email is often touted as more environmentally friendly, many consumers prefer printed mail and are more likely to open and engage with printed statements and letters over electronic versions.
Short talk on The Guardian and open/public data given by Chris Thorpe at the Gov2.0 Expo in Washington on the "Four perspectives of data.gov.uk" panel with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, John Sheridan and Dominic Campbell.
Ai, social media and political polarizationJim Isaak
This document summarizes a presentation about how social media and artificial intelligence may be undermining democracy. Micro-targeting of political ads using vast user data allows messages to be tailored to small groups in a way that reinforces polarization. Automated bots and fake accounts spread both real and fake messages virally. Deep learning AI will make influence techniques even more sophisticated and difficult to detect. Studies show these tools have been used to shape elections internationally and in the US. The future may include advanced deepfakes and increased digital voter suppression efforts. Recommendations for 2020 include better detection of disinformation across platforms and improved media literacy education.
M/A/R/C's latest InView report focuses on Social Networking, which is a hot topic in many of today's communities. This quick overview report offers great insights and conversations on Social Networking sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickster. The report examines social networking statistics and how it is being used in business applications.
Visit http://marcresearch.com/inview.php to see more InView Reports!
The document proposes ideas for a new University Relations website at George Washington University. It suggests organizing the site as a "living scrapbook" that provides up-to-date information on events, press releases, publications, and expert faculty. Sample pages are proposed that would feature headlines, latest events, an online media guide, publications like ByGeorge! and GW Magazine. The site aims to give constituents like students, alumni and media a central hub for GW news and resources through an interactive and visually appealing design.
Matt Wynn, developer and watchdog reporter at the Omaha World-Herald, offers tips on the following in this handout for Lincoln, Nebraska, NewsTrain on April 9, 2016:
--Why learn about data journalism?
--How to get started in data journalism
--Where to find data sets
--Examples of data sets for government, education, criminal justice, health, sports and other beats
--Where to learn more about data journalism
--Things he wishes someone had told him about data journalism
It accompanies his presentation, "Data-Driven Enterprise off Your Beat." NewsTrain is a training initiative of Associated Press Media Editors (APME). More info: http://bit.ly/NewsTrain
TrendBook 2014: 5 Crucial Consumer Technology Trends You Need to KnowNatalia Hatalska
TrendBook 2014 presents an analysis of the 5 top consumer technology trends which we will be dealing with next year. In this year’s TrendBook, you will find the following chapters: internet of places, connected cars, robots, sustainable development & economies of unscale. The commentators are the most important, most influential and most well-known experts in their respective categories, among the others: Chris Anderson, Nancy Lee Gioia, Chris Dancy, Matt Webb, Elliot Garbus, Prof. Russ Tedrake, Scott Sedlik, Thomas Kolster.
The document discusses the role of gatekeepers in posting breaking news online for newspapers. It finds that while formal policies are not common, gatekeepers have informal routines to help decide what gets posted. Posting breaking news online is important for driving traffic to the website and newspaper. Larger newspapers can post more consistently due to staff size. The competitive landscape has shifted from breaking news in print to breaking news online. The gatekeeper's role has expanded to constantly update the website with new information.
The Social Media President-Ch 4-5-Framing the People's White House; White Hou...Michael Barris
This document summarizes three reviews of the book "The Social Media President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement".
The first review recommends the book as a fascinating analysis of President Obama's use of social media. The second review notes that while the book reveals how digital media transformed the presidency, there are differences between its role in Obama's campaigns and administration. The third review praises the book for connecting studies of social media's role in campaigns and governance.
The document provides an overview of online political advocacy tools and tactics. It begins with an introduction to online politics and discusses how the internet can be used as a political tool due to its ease of use, speed, wide reach, and ability to foster interconnection between users. It then lists eight simple rules for effective online politics, including thinking about goals before tactics, persistence over brilliance, prioritizing persuasion over being right, engaging audiences where they are online, the importance of quality content, integrating online and offline efforts, that online tools can be used by any group, and that promoting ideas is similar to marketing products. The document concludes by identifying the three core online components for most political campaigns: a central online hub, ways
The report analyzes survey results from 304 community managers and finds that most are female, average 30 years old, and live in major cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Community managers spend most of their time on content creation and engaging on Facebook and Twitter, and their success is often measured by engagement and community growth metrics. Salaries vary significantly depending on role, gender, age, and hours worked per week managing communities.
5 Crucial Internet Trends for the Next Year [report]Natalia Hatalska
This report analyses the five most striking trends which I believe we’ll have to face this year, such as Internet of things, wearable computer, big data and privacy issues, humanisation of machines and hybrid world.
Trends are commented on by many well-known experts from all over the world, including Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow, Director, Interaction and Experience Research, Intel, Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg, Treasurer in the European Parliament; Zuzanna Skalska, Head of Trends at VanBerlo; Chris Cobb and John McHale, Creative Directors at Sapient Nitro, New York-based artist Adam Harvey; Jan Rezab, CEO at Socialbakers; Miles Lewis, Vice-President at Shazam and Borys Musielak, creator of Filmaster.TV.
The document is a research proposal that examines how glossy magazines can adapt to the digital age. It first analyzes the current state of magazines, noting that while internet usage is rising, many still read print magazines. The proposal then discusses future developments like the Mag+ digital magazine reader and e-paper that could allow magazines to be read digitally. It recommends the Cosmopolitan magazine embrace these digital changes by using them to gain more advertising revenue and attract new readers, while maintaining the print magazine format, as not everyone will prefer digital.
IRE "Better Watchdog" workshop presentation "Data: Now I've got it, what do I...J T "Tom" Johnson
The document discusses analyzing data that has been collected through investigative journalism projects. It provides tips on storing data in the cloud and bookmarking tools, challenges in analyzing poorly formatted government data from New Mexico's transparency portal, and strategies for analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data through tools like spreadsheets, databases, and data visualization programs. The goal is to turn collected data into useful information that can be shared through stories.
Local governments are adopting social media for three main reasons:
1) To directly communicate with constituents, especially younger audiences who are difficult to reach through traditional methods.
2) To attract audiences who opt-in to receive information from their local government rather than passively encountering it.
3) To share information about their work at little to no cost, as social media allow them to reach many people simultaneously in a budget-friendly way. However, adoption of social media among local governments has been mixed, with about half having no official presence on Facebook or Twitter as of mid-2009.
The New York Times Paywall is a case study based on the business transition from the traditional to digital shift of e-newspapers. The launch of digital devices favoured the growth of The Times as well as the advantages of accessibility had escalated its demands and the viewership. They adopted the Paywall strategy for additional revenue generation through subscription plans. However, the dilemma was for the long term sustenance of the latest The New York Times business model.
1) A lei estabelece casos de inelegibilidade para cargos eletivos, como membros do Congresso que perderam o mandato, condenados por crimes eleitorais ou contra a administração pública, entre outros;
2) Define prazos de cessação da inelegibilidade, geralmente de 8 anos;
3) A lei se aplica a eleições para cargos como Presidente, Governador, Prefeito e legislativos.
The document summarizes the growth of digital native news organizations and their editorial staffing. It finds that over 468 digital native outlets have produced almost 5,000 full-time editorial jobs, filling some gaps left by job losses in legacy print and broadcast news. While this has not fully compensated for losses elsewhere, it represents a significant shift in journalism resources to new digital platforms. Questions remain about developing sustainable business models, but many see this rise of digital newsrooms as an important transformation in the media landscape.
This document discusses the emerging field of computational journalism and how computing technologies can enhance the journalism process and products. It provides examples of how tools like crime maps, fact-checking plugins, interactive data visualizations, and services that augment news websites can help journalists tell stories and help the public engage with news in new ways. The document argues that news organizations need to adopt computational approaches to keep up with changes in how people consume information and ensure transparency.
Using social media and open data, FearSquare personalized UK crime statistics for individual users based on their location check-ins from Foursquare. It provided crime data for a user's everyday locations without requiring them to manually search. FearSquare gained popularity with over 2,000 Foursquare users and 45,000 page views from 128 countries. However, it also raised issues around responsible data presentation and not causing unintended impacts on third parties. The experience highlighted the need for open data to be freely available in well-documented, machine-readable formats with metadata to enable innovative applications while avoiding data misrepresentation.
The document compares the carbon emissions of the US Postal Service to email. It finds that the USPS plans to reduce its petroleum use by 20% by 2015 and greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020. In contrast, a study found that spam email produces over 17 million tons of CO2 emissions per year, with 80% of energy used searching for and deleting spam. While email is often touted as more environmentally friendly, many consumers prefer printed mail and are more likely to open and engage with printed statements and letters over electronic versions.
Short talk on The Guardian and open/public data given by Chris Thorpe at the Gov2.0 Expo in Washington on the "Four perspectives of data.gov.uk" panel with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, John Sheridan and Dominic Campbell.
Ai, social media and political polarizationJim Isaak
This document summarizes a presentation about how social media and artificial intelligence may be undermining democracy. Micro-targeting of political ads using vast user data allows messages to be tailored to small groups in a way that reinforces polarization. Automated bots and fake accounts spread both real and fake messages virally. Deep learning AI will make influence techniques even more sophisticated and difficult to detect. Studies show these tools have been used to shape elections internationally and in the US. The future may include advanced deepfakes and increased digital voter suppression efforts. Recommendations for 2020 include better detection of disinformation across platforms and improved media literacy education.
M/A/R/C's latest InView report focuses on Social Networking, which is a hot topic in many of today's communities. This quick overview report offers great insights and conversations on Social Networking sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Flickster. The report examines social networking statistics and how it is being used in business applications.
Visit http://marcresearch.com/inview.php to see more InView Reports!
The document proposes ideas for a new University Relations website at George Washington University. It suggests organizing the site as a "living scrapbook" that provides up-to-date information on events, press releases, publications, and expert faculty. Sample pages are proposed that would feature headlines, latest events, an online media guide, publications like ByGeorge! and GW Magazine. The site aims to give constituents like students, alumni and media a central hub for GW news and resources through an interactive and visually appealing design.
Matt Wynn, developer and watchdog reporter at the Omaha World-Herald, offers tips on the following in this handout for Lincoln, Nebraska, NewsTrain on April 9, 2016:
--Why learn about data journalism?
--How to get started in data journalism
--Where to find data sets
--Examples of data sets for government, education, criminal justice, health, sports and other beats
--Where to learn more about data journalism
--Things he wishes someone had told him about data journalism
It accompanies his presentation, "Data-Driven Enterprise off Your Beat." NewsTrain is a training initiative of Associated Press Media Editors (APME). More info: http://bit.ly/NewsTrain
TrendBook 2014: 5 Crucial Consumer Technology Trends You Need to KnowNatalia Hatalska
TrendBook 2014 presents an analysis of the 5 top consumer technology trends which we will be dealing with next year. In this year’s TrendBook, you will find the following chapters: internet of places, connected cars, robots, sustainable development & economies of unscale. The commentators are the most important, most influential and most well-known experts in their respective categories, among the others: Chris Anderson, Nancy Lee Gioia, Chris Dancy, Matt Webb, Elliot Garbus, Prof. Russ Tedrake, Scott Sedlik, Thomas Kolster.
The document discusses the role of gatekeepers in posting breaking news online for newspapers. It finds that while formal policies are not common, gatekeepers have informal routines to help decide what gets posted. Posting breaking news online is important for driving traffic to the website and newspaper. Larger newspapers can post more consistently due to staff size. The competitive landscape has shifted from breaking news in print to breaking news online. The gatekeeper's role has expanded to constantly update the website with new information.
The Social Media President-Ch 4-5-Framing the People's White House; White Hou...Michael Barris
This document summarizes three reviews of the book "The Social Media President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement".
The first review recommends the book as a fascinating analysis of President Obama's use of social media. The second review notes that while the book reveals how digital media transformed the presidency, there are differences between its role in Obama's campaigns and administration. The third review praises the book for connecting studies of social media's role in campaigns and governance.
The document provides an overview of online political advocacy tools and tactics. It begins with an introduction to online politics and discusses how the internet can be used as a political tool due to its ease of use, speed, wide reach, and ability to foster interconnection between users. It then lists eight simple rules for effective online politics, including thinking about goals before tactics, persistence over brilliance, prioritizing persuasion over being right, engaging audiences where they are online, the importance of quality content, integrating online and offline efforts, that online tools can be used by any group, and that promoting ideas is similar to marketing products. The document concludes by identifying the three core online components for most political campaigns: a central online hub, ways
The report analyzes survey results from 304 community managers and finds that most are female, average 30 years old, and live in major cities like New York, San Francisco, and Boston. Community managers spend most of their time on content creation and engaging on Facebook and Twitter, and their success is often measured by engagement and community growth metrics. Salaries vary significantly depending on role, gender, age, and hours worked per week managing communities.
5 Crucial Internet Trends for the Next Year [report]Natalia Hatalska
This report analyses the five most striking trends which I believe we’ll have to face this year, such as Internet of things, wearable computer, big data and privacy issues, humanisation of machines and hybrid world.
Trends are commented on by many well-known experts from all over the world, including Genevieve Bell, Intel Fellow, Director, Interaction and Experience Research, Intel, Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg, Treasurer in the European Parliament; Zuzanna Skalska, Head of Trends at VanBerlo; Chris Cobb and John McHale, Creative Directors at Sapient Nitro, New York-based artist Adam Harvey; Jan Rezab, CEO at Socialbakers; Miles Lewis, Vice-President at Shazam and Borys Musielak, creator of Filmaster.TV.
The document is a research proposal that examines how glossy magazines can adapt to the digital age. It first analyzes the current state of magazines, noting that while internet usage is rising, many still read print magazines. The proposal then discusses future developments like the Mag+ digital magazine reader and e-paper that could allow magazines to be read digitally. It recommends the Cosmopolitan magazine embrace these digital changes by using them to gain more advertising revenue and attract new readers, while maintaining the print magazine format, as not everyone will prefer digital.
IRE "Better Watchdog" workshop presentation "Data: Now I've got it, what do I...J T "Tom" Johnson
The document discusses analyzing data that has been collected through investigative journalism projects. It provides tips on storing data in the cloud and bookmarking tools, challenges in analyzing poorly formatted government data from New Mexico's transparency portal, and strategies for analyzing both qualitative and quantitative data through tools like spreadsheets, databases, and data visualization programs. The goal is to turn collected data into useful information that can be shared through stories.
Local governments are adopting social media for three main reasons:
1) To directly communicate with constituents, especially younger audiences who are difficult to reach through traditional methods.
2) To attract audiences who opt-in to receive information from their local government rather than passively encountering it.
3) To share information about their work at little to no cost, as social media allow them to reach many people simultaneously in a budget-friendly way. However, adoption of social media among local governments has been mixed, with about half having no official presence on Facebook or Twitter as of mid-2009.
The New York Times Paywall is a case study based on the business transition from the traditional to digital shift of e-newspapers. The launch of digital devices favoured the growth of The Times as well as the advantages of accessibility had escalated its demands and the viewership. They adopted the Paywall strategy for additional revenue generation through subscription plans. However, the dilemma was for the long term sustenance of the latest The New York Times business model.
1) A lei estabelece casos de inelegibilidade para cargos eletivos, como membros do Congresso que perderam o mandato, condenados por crimes eleitorais ou contra a administração pública, entre outros;
2) Define prazos de cessação da inelegibilidade, geralmente de 8 anos;
3) A lei se aplica a eleições para cargos como Presidente, Governador, Prefeito e legislativos.
El seminario trata sobre las herramientas web 2.0 como del.icio.us y slideshare.net. Juan Pablo Ureña T. presentará el seminario como parte de los Cursos Especializados de la UPSI.
Overview of Blue Medora - New Relic Plugin for MongoDBBlue Medora
Overview of Blue Medora's New Relic Plugin for MongoDB databases. The Blue Medora New Relic Plugin for MongoDB databases provides support for New Relic Plugins as well as New Relic Insights.
El documento presenta estadísticas de tres grupos (A, B y C) de un torneo de fútbol infantil femenino. En cada grupo se muestran los puntos, partidos jugados, ganados, empatados, perdidos, goles a favor, en contra y diferencia de cada equipo.
This document outlines an 8-week study plan for an English language course. Week 1 focuses on future tense using "be going to" and includes reading assignments from a book about water sports. Week 2 covers "would like" for wishes and has students read more of the water sports book. Week 3 reviews simple past tense and irregular verbs, with a reading on human migration and a video about monarch butterflies. The plan provides structure for each week including which textbook pages and exercises to complete each day.
סדנה קפיצה לגובה - להנות ולהצליח מהרעיון להגשמת חלוםNir Makovsky
העולם העיסקי נמצא בתוך תהליך מעמת ומאתגר כאחד.
הקצב המהיר של החיים העסקיים הפכו את התחרות העסקית לתובענית מאוד
ומרבית העסקים עסוקים בשאלה ''כיצד לשרוד''?
סדנת ''קפיצה לגובה'' נותנת מענה משמעותי כיצד להתפתח וליצור מצויינות בעסקכם
ואיך להתמודד עם אתגרים אלה.
מצוינות הוא ערך אשר מביא אנשים לתפקד מעבר ליכולות השיגרתיות שלהם.
מצוינות יוצרת הרבה יותר מתוצאות גבוהות. מצוינות יוצרת רצון לראות בכל עימות - אתגר!
השאלה איך יוצרים מצוינות???
בסדנת ''קפיצה לגובה'' תראן ותלמדו איך אפשר ליצור מצוינות אישית תוך זמן קצר מאוד.
הכלים שתקבלו הם פשוטים וקלים ליישום ובעזרתם תוכלו להתניע את תהליך הצמיחה בחייכם ובעסקכם.
הסדנה מקנה גישות וכלים פשוטים, כיצד לנוע לכיוון המטרה הרצויה,כיצד לנוע לכיוון המטרה הרצויה, הגדרות הצלחה, להנות מהעסק! לקחת את כל הידע והכלים שיש לכם ולארגם לעסק מצליח. כלי תכנון למיקוד וייעול
אם שאלתם עצמכם מה הצעד הבא בעסק? אם אתם יודעים, אבל בפנים לא נתתם הדעת איך להגיע לשם -
בסדנה תקבלו המענה.
my talk to 2/12/09 O'Reilly IgniteBoston, emphasizing that passage of economic stimulus package, combined with current economy, is perfect time to introduce data-centric "democratizing data" approach, giving workers, regulators, public, watchdogs real-time access to critical information! Video version: http://tinyurl.com/c9vkjy
Public data is the language of government as it determines government benefits, grants for states and communities, and the rationale for legislation. While many people dislike working with data, becoming comfortable dealing with data is important for citizens who want to play a substantive role in government rather than just participate in campaigns. The rise of Web 2.0 provides an opportunity for citizens to both access and understand government data in order to become empowered and involved in shaping government.
The document discusses how opening up crime and justice data to the public could impact policy and public perceptions of crime. It raises questions around whether providing easier access to statistics and allowing public feedback could make data sharing more effective and drive better understanding of why crime occurs. Concerns expressed include protecting victim privacy, skepticism around data accuracy, and a lack of resources for data initiatives.
Technology and Trust: The Challenge of 21st Century GovernmentTim O'Reilly
My talk at the 2013 Social Innovation Summit. Democracies get their strength from the people’s trust. When the interactions that people have with government are so divorced from how they live their lives, or are hard and unpleasant, what does that do to the trust that underlies our democracies? At Code for America, we try to restore trust in government by building interfaces to essential government services that are simple, beautiful, and easy to use.
We take four approaches: 1) we work directly with government officials (at the local level) to create the capacity inside government to build innovative solutions to hard problems; 2) we build communities of technologists and citizens who want to lend their skills to help build their governments; 3) we build tools that make citizen interactions with government easier, simpler, and more elegant, so that the experience of government is positive and breeds trust. 4) We incubate and accelerate civic startups to create new
economic models for those tools.
Don’t stop believing that government can work, and can be a force for good
Open Innovation - Winter 2014 - Socrata, Inc.Socrata
As innovators around the world push the open data movement forward, Socrata features their stories, successes, advice, and ideas in our quarterly magazine, “Open Innovation.”
The Winter 2014 issue of Open Innovation is out. This special year-in-review edition contains stories about some of the biggest open data achievements in 2013, as well as expert insights into how open data can grow and where it may go in 2014.
In this paper, I talk about three distinct areas: Big Data, Crowdsourcing, and Public Sector. Each of the these areas is vast on its own but through this paper I want to argue that it is the intersection of the three which offers unique and immense possibilities that can truly make the world a better place.
Social Media 101: Things Have Changed Since School Let Out - John BlueJohn Blue
This presentation was shared via a National Agri-Marketing Association webinar on September 14, 2017. This SlideShare contains the slides and notes of the presentation, typos and all.
Links mentioned in the presentation can be found at http://bitly.com/some-101-ref-info
John Blue, with Truffle Media Networks, offers information on how social media from the last couple of years has changed and what those changes mean to your practices in public relations, marketing, and advertising.
Additionally, John provides strategic digital planning information on monitoring & measuring the social spaces of the future, along with approaches to understanding a social channel's value for campaigns.
The future of online government will likely see:
1) Government services becoming more invisible and only contacting citizens when needed to reduce issues or for additional input.
2) Digital technology challenging nation states as corporations and individuals push boundaries, requiring governments to thoughtfully embrace rather than resist digital change.
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An information society
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Better data, better services the role of the public in public sector data
1. Better Data, Better Services
The Role of the Public in Public Sector Data
Paul Malyon, Product Manager
Good afternoon everyone. I’m pleased to be here today to talk to you about the role of better data
in the provision of services to UK citizens. There are a number of challenges that all of you here will
be experiencing around balancing budgets, dealing with change and understanding your
stakeholders – the citizen.
When I was asked to speak to you today I spent a great deal of time thinking about what to say. I
finally realised that talking about AddressBase, the PSMA and the census would be like preaching to
the converted. As much as I love talking about AddressBase (honest!) I thought it would be nice to
talk about something else for a change.
So, today, I’m going to talk about the role of the citizen in creating and managing the data used to
provide services back to the citizen. I’ll use an example or two from recent events to highlight this
and then conclude by explaining where all of us get involved.
Also, if any of you are on Twitter now, feel free to comment using the HashTag here. If we have time
I’ll run through any results I get to see how the citizens here at Everything Happens Somewhere
react to the services they’ll be receiving.
Slide 2 - Where we are Today
The first things I’d like to cover are some of the changes in society and public sector data that have
got us to where we are today.
We all know about the PSMA, NLPG and AddressBase. These are great examples of how the public
sector can work together to benefit society. I think a lot of these benefits are still to be seen and I
personally expect a great deal of interesting data and tools to come from this in the next couple of
years. From my own experience, I know that we’re just scratching the surface.
In terms of AddressBase, we’re very pleased with how this data is shaping up and we’re supporting
the new files right now. Obviously there are still a few questions about how this all works with PAF
license fees and I know the OS are working to create more information for you to help with your
decisions on when or if to migrate.
Some of the other fundamental shifts have come not from the Public Sector, but from the public (or
in many cases, their most powerful representatives; the media). We all saw the news about
expenses in the papers and we all see the regular stories of scandal coming from Freedom of
Information requests.
While this kind of thing can cause a lot of inconvenience and embarrassment, the positive effects
can be huge.
For example, look at data.gov.uk. How much of the data (and how many of the requests for new
data) involve the citizen simply wanting to find out what their MP or Council spend their hard earned
2. tax money on? I personally think that this is a huge positive for everyone. If the citizen can get more
information on the political process, they’re much more likely to want to be involved and influence
the processes to benefit wider society. Of course there are some risks with this and it can open up
the democratic process to certain interest groups; but this is nothing new.
At least now everyone has the same fair and equal access to the information that matters and with
the explosion in data journalism, you can read about it in the paper every morning.
With the current government seemingly keen on a more open agenda, we can probably expect the
amount of data to increase. The important thing now is to ensure that this data is in a uniform
format and of a decent quality. No one wants crime stats that don’t get updated every month!
If all of this data can be made available openly and ideally in a standard, linked format, the
opportunities for the public, industry and public sector to use this to improve services are very
exciting.
We’ve already seen some good examples from data.gov.uk and we’re now seeing some local
authorities beginning to combine their PSMA data with other sources to create easier ways to access
services. The local authority here in Nottingham is a good example.
OK, so we’ve identified that data is becoming more widely used and understood. However, how are
the public contributing to the data itself? By this, we don’t just mean the availability of existing data
in an Open form.
Let’s take some examples from the news this summer. We’ve all seen the news every day on the
Arab Spring and the massive changes in some of the countries in that region.
Data has played a huge role in these events. The use of mobile phones to upload video and tweets
about the protests to circumvent the government controlled media gave an initial boost to the
movements. We can even find evidence in the media of this information being used by NATO to plan
operations.
Many are even suggesting that the Arab Spring simply wouldn’t have happened without the power
of Social Media. The US Admiral in charge of the NATO operation in Libya, James Stavridis, even
posted that the end had been reached on his Facebook page.
3. Slide 3 - Social Media – A trusted Source?
Closer to home, the riots in London and other cities in the summer were also a fantastic example of
how social media and crowd sourcing can influence events.
I live in Stratford, East London. While we escaped the worst of the riots due to huge numbers of
Police protecting the Olympic park, new Westfield shopping centre and virtually shutting the town
centre down; it wasn’t hard for me to see what was going on.
I was about to head off on holiday so obviously couldn’t sleep. I spent the evening watching BBC
News and tracking events using Twitter. It was pretty simple to search for key words like ‘Riot’,
‘London’ and ‘Hackney’.
Of all of the stories trending that evening, I was most interested in the false ones. Tigers being
released from London Zoo to run amok on Primrose Hill was very popular but quickly proven to be
false. The West Ham Primark apparently burning down was also popular but similarly false. I can
actually see the West Ham area from my apartment and certainly didn’t see any smoke rising in that
direction!
However, the debate has been very interesting on whether Social Media was actually a positive or
negative thing during those days. If you ask the two gents jailed for inciting riots that never
happened on Facebook, you’d get a very different answer from me.
I personally think that the use of social media to understand society and influence it is growing by
the day and if managed correctly and paired with useful partner data and applications it could be
hugely positive.
4. Slide 4 - The Aftermath in Data
A few months down the line we’ve started to see some interesting statistics on those people caught
and sentenced in terms of their ethnicity, age and some other demographic detail like their
employment status, educational record and in the cases of the juvenile offenders; whether they get
free school meals.
I’ve collated some of these stats in the top two images here. You can see that the percentage of
those out of work was much higher than the national average and that 60% of convicted juveniles
had special educational needs. You can also see that a large percentage of offenders were aged
between 10 and 39.
What does this mean for service providers? Well, it doesn’t take a great leap to think about how you
focus community services to look at helping citizens improve their education, work prospects and so
on. Obviously, you can also look at other crime prevention measures with the Police. To do this
successfully, you need to combine the data like this with address and demographics to gain the right
level of insight.
One of the things I did that night was to use my iPod to access the Mosaic UK application and search
for the areas being mentioned on the news to see what the demographic profile was of the local
residents. It certainly threw up some interesting results. The screenshot on this slide gives the
Mosaic type for the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham. By no means am I suggesting that
everyone involved was from a particular ethnic or social type, simply that this is an example of what
the data can tell us.
So, we’ve taken a look at how social media and government statistics can be used to understand
events before, during and after they happen. We’ve also touched on some of the risks of using
‘crowd sourced’ data like Twitter and Facebook and the importance of context on the data that’s
produced.
5. Slide 5 - Mashing up
I’d now like to look at some of the pioneering ways that individuals and organisations could work
and are working with Open Source, paid for and social data to influence the services they request
and deliver.
Let’s tackle one problem first that could be quite pertinent in the coming months. Snow and Ice.
While I was writing this presentation I was looking around at some of the apps that had been
created from the data on data.gov.uk. I found some really good ones on locations of crime, post
boxes, schools and even some that allowed me to find public conveniences in the UK. However, we
won’t get bogged down in these examples.
Despite a couple of requests, there is no single data source listing which roads are gritted or likely to
be gritted. One local authority that has released some data on this is Sunderland. If we had this data
for all of the authorities, we could build something quite easily. It’s almost like using a recipe – but
without the need for an overpaid chef.
6. Slide 6 - A Recipe for Success
Firstly, take some open mapping data from the OS OpenSpace site, I favour OS Street View here.
Next, we take some gritting data from data.gov.uk that lists which streets are to be gritted, their
priority and of course their location. We could possibly add in some data here from the National
Street Gazetteer or AddressBase.
Next, we pop in a simple address search or live location search for smartphones. You could even add
some route mapping to allow users to map their route to work using the best roads!
Finally, we add a pinch of social media to allow users to Tweet the condition of the road to
recommend routes, request more grit or warn others of ice. They’ll obviously not do this while
driving though! You could put an option to disable the feedback while the phone is in motion..
Leave to simmer until tender and you now have a simple way for your citizens to not only get the
services they need during cold weather, but also to help you deliver those services and help prevent
further costs for you in terms of a potential fall in accidents and road closures.
All of this from PSMA, Open and Social data!
So that’s one example. However, this only touches on the implication of crowd sourcing and direct
feedback for your service delivery. How else can the citizen help?
7. Slide 7 - Citizen Involvement
We’ve seen some interesting developments in terms of reporting requirements for services such as
the ‘Fill that Hole’ website and app and now some extended applications of this such as Fix My
Street put together by MySociety.org.
Think about it, if you didn’t have to dedicate an area of your website to reporting broken street
lights and then process all of this as well as employing people to regularly check these too; wouldn’t
it save you time and money?
Thinking about how the citizen wants to interact with you, they may find it easier to use their
smartphone app to take a geotagged picture of a problem which is automatically sent to your
relevant department than wait until they get home, turn on their PC and then head to your website
to fill in the form. In many cases, they’d simply not bother to do this on their PC as it’s probably not
as easy as a smartphone app.
We’re all busy people and a lot of us want to help make our streets better. We simply need to make
it as quick and intuitive as possible for citizens to help save government (and thus themselves) some
time and money.
I’d urge all of you from local authorities to contact Fix My Street to see how you can integrate it into
your processes if you haven’t already.
On the other side of the coin, there are also applications like Numberhood that can be used by
citizen groups to find out the information they need about their local area in terms of employment,
economy and so on to better challenge the services they receive. If a local group can see that the
unemployment is high amongst certain ages, they can request the relevant service to change this
and get more involved in making the improvements themselves. I’m sure certain parties would call
this the big society in action!
So those are some ways for citizens to create better data for better services and use existing data to
access those services. We’ve also looked at combining existing data to create better services.
8. Slide 8 - Capturing more Data for Better Services
Now, how do we use the data that people create without realising it to enhance public services? This
could be termed as ‘data exhaust’ as it’s not the key reason for the process that creates that data in
the first place.
Think about this example, whenever someone uses a council website to access information or
services, what are they leaving behind?
Obviously, you can see which pages they visit to find the service or information they need. This is
very simple web analytics. What becomes interesting is looking at the background of the requests
and the people making those requests.
Can anyone spot the obvious difference here between the two home page logins for my local
borough in Newham?
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If you add a Facebook login to your website, you could potentially capture more about your citizens.
Who are they? Where do they live? How old are they? Are their friends interested in what they’re
doing? By looking at their profile information, you could also see if they’re likely to be interested in
particular parts of your site and services for their personal or business use.
Take me for example; just from my profile you can see who I am, where I live, where I work, where I
studied, whether I’m in a relationship or not, when my Birthday is (so you can send me a card) and
the kind of things I get up to and who I spend my time with.
By capturing simple information like this, you can tackle channel shift and find innovative new ways
to deliver information and services as well as gathering better insights into your citizens.
Let’s look at another theoretical example to put this into context.
9. Slide 9 - Social Networking for Contact Data
If a local authority added a Facebook or Twitter login to their page, a citizen could log in with a
simple click. From here, the need to capture a Name, e-mail, mobile and address every time they fill
in a form could be reduced. It would also save them having to remember yet another password!
With some simple regular cleansing, any address taken from the Facebook login could be verified
and corrected where necessary.
From here, the citizen can link all of their activities into one single identity to allow them to keep
track of things easily. The local authority will get some great advantages here:
Firstly, they will get extra data on their citizen in the form of a working email address, mobile
number and possibly some data on their job. This can all help verify their identity if they apply for
assistance or when they go to pay their council tax.
The local authority can begin to understand which services are the most important to different
demographics through the use of the Facebook link and other tools such as users ‘Liking’ the page.
For example, I need to find my local health centre. Once I get to the right page on the local authority
site, I ‘like it’ as it was easy to get to and tells me what I need to know. You now know that people
like me want information on GPs.
If I log in using Facebook, fill in the form and then Like the page; you not only get the details you
need but you can begin to understand what kind of people are currently living or moving into your
region, what they need from you and from tracking the other pages they visit on your site; you can
recommend particular pages, information and forms to similar people who log in another time.
The local authority get extra data and intelligence, the user gets a better experience and future users
benefit from this by being able to get to what they need more quickly. You can easily visualise this as
a personalised homepage depending on your demographic profile from Facebook and similar users
activities.
Look at my mock up on this slide. Instead of filling in the form to register, I can simply click to log in
and fill in all the fields you want automatically. If you want to validate these using software solutions
then that’s great.
10. Slide 10 - Real Time Reporting - Birmingham
A fantastic example of this in action is the Birmingham City Council Civic Dashboard Alpha. This
simple site captures all of the requests made by the public in the course of each day and plots them
on a map to help users visualise the numbers of requests for particular services and where those
requests are coming from at certain times of day. It even shows how these requests are received.
This is all Open source and makes use of datasets like CodePoint Open and then makes all of the
information available to others in CSV or JSON format. While this is a pilot, it really shows how
simple it is to combine almost real time data with common reference files to create something truly
useful for local authorities and the public.
Think about the impact of this kind of information on your service provision. Which departmental
call centres should you ensure are fully staffed at certain times? Where should you put service
centres in your region? What kind of services are requested by text and email versus face to face?
How do you optimise the information on your website to cut the number of enquiries and save
costs?
This is hugely impressive. If you added in things like Twitter key word searches and some
demographics, the usefulness of this kind of service could grow exponentially. I’m sure at the back
end of this service, Birmingham are using some very good address capture software too.
11. Slide 11 - Using Twitter to Increase Involvement
Before I move on, I just wanted to mention a couple of interesting uses of Twitter to enhance
services. Walsall and Norfolk councils have both used Twitter to promote their services via hash tags
like #NCCourday.
By offering this visibility of your staff and services, you are going to get some valuable feedback from
citizens on what matters to them. With the aim to move more and more services online, this focus
on social media and engaging demographic groups who are traditionally less interested in
government will bring in some great benefits in the coming years.
Slide 12 - Combining everything & everyone
I know I’ve spent a great deal of time talking about online data which may seem strange at an event
focussed on address gazetteers. However, I don’t see the two things being that separate as we
gathered from the Birmingham example.
Of course, we can’t just focus on people using the web. Channel shift does represent the end game
but we still need to think about those people who use face to face and phone based conversations
to access services. What data do we have on them today and what else could we get to help us
provide better services?
Looking at the Birmingham example again, we can see that recording the types of requests and
where they come from is pretty easy. By using files like AddressBase, CodePoint Open and some kind
of demographic file like Mosaic; you get to know about the kinds of services that are needed in
certain areas and by certain types of people.
This means that, for example, you can quickly see that primary education is likely to be needed in an
area as lots of young professionals moved in a couple of years ago and are now having their first
child. Or you can see that the demographic on a 1970s estate means that more elderly care services
like meals on wheels could be needed there soon.
I guess my conclusion here is that there is a huge potential to improve services using better data.
The most important things you can do today are to start looking at AddressBase, create a single
customer view and ensure you use the latest suppression data to identify movers or the deceased.
By getting your address-centric contact data right, you can then begin to lay new data sources over
the top.
These could be existing open data sources or those available via the PSMA. You could also look at
using social network links to improve access to your services and actually understand what’s needed
by who, where and when by combining all of the channels you use to gather, validate and
understand data.
12. Some examples already exist. However, I personally believe that local organisations need to think
less locally. Look at the recent alpha.gov.uk experiment.
By bringing all services into one portal, it makes it much easier to access what citizens need and also
understand the results in a much more useful way. Imagine if all local authorities used this portal as
the start of the citizen journey to the things they needed.
The future looks really exciting but we mustn’t forget what we’ve been working hard on over the last
20 years. Addresses and locations will always be important tools. We now just have a few more
screwdrivers and wrenches to play with.
I hope this has given you an idea of what’s going on around the Country and how those of us in the
industry are thinking. You probably didn’t expect someone from QAS to talk so little about
Postcodes, but I can promise you that we’re thinking about more than those when it comes to better
contact data for better citizen services.
Thank you.