This document proposes creating a virtual environment to help local communities develop digital applications that address local challenges. It would do this by (1) involving community members in identifying needs, (2) growing the local digital economy by enabling businesses and non-profits to build apps, and (3) adapting to new technologies. The goal is to enable people to turn ideas into innovations using new tools to cheaply and quickly develop applications that make best use of local talent to solve community needs.
Reimagining a physical exhibition as a digital destination - Chris How, Clear...Museums Computer Group
Museums+Tech 2020: Museums in a crisis
Reimagining a physical exhibition as a digital destination
Chris How, Clearleft
How do you turn the world’s most prestigious and longest-running wildlife photography competition into a compelling digital destination? Since 1965 the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has had a loyal following. Each year five million visitors make the pilgrimage to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington to view the latest collection of spectacular and thought-provoking photographs. The competition did have a microsite – a pale imitation of the physical space that failed to utilise the benefits of digital. The website was a second-rate clone rather than a unique companion to the exhibition. This presentation will tell the story of how the Museum’s digital team alongside Clearleft took the opportunity to think afresh how digital could be used to celebrate and connect a global audience to an evergreen and ever-growing collection of images. We will share lessons learned on how to help an organisation reevaluate and reinvent a well-loved exhibition. It will go behind the scenes and show the process used including conducting insightful audience research, creating a project strategy, running collaborative sketching sessions and showcasing work-in-progress as a way to design and deliver a distinctly digital exhibition.
From MySpace, MySociety to MyDemocracy. Civil Society Media, an overview. Geert Wissink
The changing media-landscape and web 2.0 in that perspective. Civil Society Media are introduced, groups and organizations who exist next to state-owned and commercial media. Some lessons for government how to deal with these developments are given.
From MySpace to MySociety to MyDemocracyKennisland
The medialandscape is changing. In this presentation the emerging role of the civil society media will be outlined against the changing medialandscape.
OuiShare - Sharing Economy - South American Business ForumDavid Sucar
Sharing Economy presentation by David Sucar (OuiShare Connector) during the SABF (South American Businees Forum) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. @SucarDavid
Reimagining a physical exhibition as a digital destination - Chris How, Clear...Museums Computer Group
Museums+Tech 2020: Museums in a crisis
Reimagining a physical exhibition as a digital destination
Chris How, Clearleft
How do you turn the world’s most prestigious and longest-running wildlife photography competition into a compelling digital destination? Since 1965 the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition has had a loyal following. Each year five million visitors make the pilgrimage to the Natural History Museum in South Kensington to view the latest collection of spectacular and thought-provoking photographs. The competition did have a microsite – a pale imitation of the physical space that failed to utilise the benefits of digital. The website was a second-rate clone rather than a unique companion to the exhibition. This presentation will tell the story of how the Museum’s digital team alongside Clearleft took the opportunity to think afresh how digital could be used to celebrate and connect a global audience to an evergreen and ever-growing collection of images. We will share lessons learned on how to help an organisation reevaluate and reinvent a well-loved exhibition. It will go behind the scenes and show the process used including conducting insightful audience research, creating a project strategy, running collaborative sketching sessions and showcasing work-in-progress as a way to design and deliver a distinctly digital exhibition.
From MySpace, MySociety to MyDemocracy. Civil Society Media, an overview. Geert Wissink
The changing media-landscape and web 2.0 in that perspective. Civil Society Media are introduced, groups and organizations who exist next to state-owned and commercial media. Some lessons for government how to deal with these developments are given.
From MySpace to MySociety to MyDemocracyKennisland
The medialandscape is changing. In this presentation the emerging role of the civil society media will be outlined against the changing medialandscape.
OuiShare - Sharing Economy - South American Business ForumDavid Sucar
Sharing Economy presentation by David Sucar (OuiShare Connector) during the SABF (South American Businees Forum) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. @SucarDavid
Presentation given by Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate, at Open & Agile Smart Cities' annual Connected Smart Cities & Communities Conference 2020 on 23 January in Brussels, Belgium
Underpinning innovation through geography 16062010Geovation
Presentation from David Simoes-Brown, Strategy Partner at 100%Open, and Chris Parker, Ordnance Survey on open innovation with geographic data.
With Seminar summary outcome slide: "Do's and Dont's of opening up data.
Presented at Ordnance Survey hosted Science and Innovation 2010 Seminar: Underpinning innovation with geography launching this year's GeoVation Challenge - "How can Britain feed itself?"
TechSoup Global and Guardian Seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life seminar. Presentation by Nathaniel Manning, Director of Business Development and Strategy at Ushahidi illustrated how they use crowdsourcing, big data and the opensource tools they have developed to help with disaster relief, political accountability and other development issues. Mobile phones were identified as one of the key ways that data is provided and collected in developing countries.
2015 ODI Summit — Embracing Generation Open & Network Thinking — Gavin StarkstheODI
Over 700 people came to the ODI Summit from around the world to celebrate Generation Open — the innovators and entrepreneurs, citizens and customers, students and parents who embrace network thinking.
Gavin Starks, CEO of the Open Data Institute, presented on Embracing Generation Open & Network Thinking.
Keyboard Participation: An Analysis of 'g0v' For Collaborative Participation ...mysociety
This was presented by Ting-Yu Cheng from the National Taiwan University at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC@Taipei) in Taipei on 12th September 2017. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://civictechfest.org/agenda
Abstract:
The new, digital native generation turns naturally to technology to participate in society. 'Keyboard participation' can take various forms, from virtual conversations to real-life civic engagement.
Established in 2012, g0v is a distributed, civic hacker community in Taiwan. Its members collaborate to translate the once dull, obscure, and scattered materials held by the authorities into easily accessible and visual information, bridging the information gap between the government and citizens — or more, enlightening and empowering citizens to oversee the government.
Ting-Yu’s study observes how the Open Source culture propagated by g0v has lowered the threshold for citizens to participate in public affairs, particularly noting that when the organisation’s technology collaborates with civil society, the cross-border exchange creates a brand new culture of citizen participation.
Open Kent is a powerful and innovative tool, which enables organisations and customers easy access to a range of publically available data in a secure way. It will provide the platform to help Kent Connects develop and implement a coherent approach to sharing public information across the County.
Presentation given by Monique Calisti, Martel Innovate, at Open & Agile Smart Cities' annual Connected Smart Cities & Communities Conference 2020 on 23 January in Brussels, Belgium
Underpinning innovation through geography 16062010Geovation
Presentation from David Simoes-Brown, Strategy Partner at 100%Open, and Chris Parker, Ordnance Survey on open innovation with geographic data.
With Seminar summary outcome slide: "Do's and Dont's of opening up data.
Presented at Ordnance Survey hosted Science and Innovation 2010 Seminar: Underpinning innovation with geography launching this year's GeoVation Challenge - "How can Britain feed itself?"
TechSoup Global and Guardian Seminar: Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life seminar. Presentation by Nathaniel Manning, Director of Business Development and Strategy at Ushahidi illustrated how they use crowdsourcing, big data and the opensource tools they have developed to help with disaster relief, political accountability and other development issues. Mobile phones were identified as one of the key ways that data is provided and collected in developing countries.
2015 ODI Summit — Embracing Generation Open & Network Thinking — Gavin StarkstheODI
Over 700 people came to the ODI Summit from around the world to celebrate Generation Open — the innovators and entrepreneurs, citizens and customers, students and parents who embrace network thinking.
Gavin Starks, CEO of the Open Data Institute, presented on Embracing Generation Open & Network Thinking.
Keyboard Participation: An Analysis of 'g0v' For Collaborative Participation ...mysociety
This was presented by Ting-Yu Cheng from the National Taiwan University at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC@Taipei) in Taipei on 12th September 2017. You can find out more information about the conference here: http://civictechfest.org/agenda
Abstract:
The new, digital native generation turns naturally to technology to participate in society. 'Keyboard participation' can take various forms, from virtual conversations to real-life civic engagement.
Established in 2012, g0v is a distributed, civic hacker community in Taiwan. Its members collaborate to translate the once dull, obscure, and scattered materials held by the authorities into easily accessible and visual information, bridging the information gap between the government and citizens — or more, enlightening and empowering citizens to oversee the government.
Ting-Yu’s study observes how the Open Source culture propagated by g0v has lowered the threshold for citizens to participate in public affairs, particularly noting that when the organisation’s technology collaborates with civil society, the cross-border exchange creates a brand new culture of citizen participation.
Open Kent is a powerful and innovative tool, which enables organisations and customers easy access to a range of publically available data in a secure way. It will provide the platform to help Kent Connects develop and implement a coherent approach to sharing public information across the County.
How a new national approach to IT procurement will help to drive innovation , interoperability and data sharing across the public sectors. Success would significantly boost public sector efforts to deliver channel shift, early intervention and workplace transformation.
This presentation was presented during the smart city symposium that was organized by the British Council at Masdar Institute between 26-27 March 2017. It highlights how smart cities initiatives innovating smart services and discusses the different approaches to innovating in public services including co-creation of services, crowdsouring, and the importance of open data portals. Examples from UAE and Dubai smart city as will as other innovative public services from around the world is highlighted.
Workers as Revolutionaries - Reflections on the Digital Agenda and Workforce ...Camden
A short presentation on digital strategy, revolutionary changes happening in the workforce and reflections on how to CIO's and IT organisations can rise to the challenge
Opportunities and Challenges of Crowdsourcing for Smart RegionsCrowdsourcing Week
By Birgitta Bergvall-Kåreborn & Anna Ståhlbröst, Luleå University of Technology, LTU. Presented at CSW Summit Arctic Circle 2015. Learn more and join us at our next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com
Digital Transformation : Just a Buzzword or Real TransformationMatthew W. Bowers
Digital Transformation : Just a Buzzword or Real Transformation. A presentation to the St Louis Chapter of AITP to highlight, define and discuss digital transformation as well as business innovation and related topics. What IS Digital Transformation, why is it confusing, who does it, who leads, what is the maturity model?
Empowering citizens to turn them into co-creatorsof demand-driven public services. CO-CREATION methodology, supporting platform and tools. Ecosystem of co-created artefacts. Open Government enablling
Open Data … Open Wallonia. The road toOpen Government in Wallonia. Présentation de l'AWT à l'occasion du Séminaire "données publiques" à l'Université de Namur (7 mai 2014)
Barry Fong, Principal Social Policy Analyst at the Greater London Authority (GLA) will take us through the Survey of Londoners 2021-22. Conducted at the end of 2021, so just before the full effects of the cost-of-living crisis began to set in, it was commissioned to provide vital evidence on key social outcomes for Londoners, following the onset of COVID-19 and associated restrictions.
A similar survey was conducted in 2018-19, so this survey would show how things had changed in the capital since then.
Barry will go through some of the key findings from the survey before handing over to Michael Cheetham and Ellen Bloomer from the North East London Integrated Care Board, who collaborated with local authority partners to fund a sample boost for the survey within North East London. They will explain how they used the data, including the analyses, the results and how this impacted strategy and practice.
Barry Fong, Principal Social Policy Analyst at the Greater London Authority (GLA) will take us through the Survey of Londoners 2021-22. Conducted at the end of 2021, so just before the full effects of the cost-of-living crisis began to set in, it was commissioned to provide vital evidence on key social outcomes for Londoners, following the onset of COVID-19 and associated restrictions.
A similar survey was conducted in 2018-19, so this survey would show how things had changed in the capital since then.
Barry will go through some of the key findings from the survey before handing over to Michael Cheetham and Ellen Bloomer from the North East London Integrated Care Board, who collaborated with local authority partners to fund a sample boost for the survey within North East London. They will explain how they used the data, including the analyses, the results and how this impacted strategy and practice.
How can humanities research contribute to policy 2Noel Hatch
There is always a danger that the humanities are overlooked in favour of the social sciences or ‘hard’ sciences in research-policy engagement, when the former have an important role to play.
The session will provide case studies and a facilitated discussion to better understand the potential implications and challenges for policymakers of engaging with humanities researchers.
The London Strategy and Policy Network and the London Research and Policy Partnership invite you to join a session to explore the contributions that humanities research can make to policy by bringing together humanities researchers and policymakers from across the capital and beyond.
Welcome and introduction (1:00 – 1:10pm)
Chaired by:
Professor Ben Rogers, Professor of Practice, University of London & Bloomberg Fellow to LSE Cities
Overview: How can humanists and policymakers work together? Benefits and opportunities of humanities research and policy engagement (1:10 – 1:20pm)
Presented by:
Jo Fox, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Engagement) & Dean, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Case study 1: Lessons from ‘The Pandemic and Beyond: the Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery (1:20 – 1:30pm)
Presented by:
Pascale Aebischer, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies, University of Exeter and PI of The Pandemic and Beyond: the Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery, University of Exeter.
Case study 2: Place-making, diversity and co-production: making visible the layers of London (1:30 – 1:40pm)
Presented by:
Justin Colston, Senior Lecturer at Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Q & A / Discussion (1:40 - 1:55pm)
Closing remarks (1:55 - 2pm)
ABOUT LRaPP:
London Research and Policy Partnership (LRaPP) is a new partnership aimed at promoting greater synergy between London government and the academic research community.
The Partnership is evolving among movements bringing universities and local communities, cities and regions closer together - the ‘civic universities agenda’. It encourages universities to use their expertise and organisational resources to address pressing public policy challenges.
There are many examples of London's academics and public sector working together. Yet, most of these relationships develop in an ad hoc way. LRaPP takes a systematic approach through proactive and sustained engagement between the university and government sectors.
London Strategy and Policy Network
This network brings together people working in policy & strategy working in local government across London to learn new insights on cross-cutting issues and new methods in how to develop insight, policy, strategy & change.
This helps them support their organisations make sense of how to tackle issues which cut across various services and that require a whole system approach across local places to tackle.
How can humanities research contribute to policy 1Noel Hatch
There is always a danger that the humanities are overlooked in favour of the social sciences or ‘hard’ sciences in research-policy engagement, when the former have an important role to play.
The session will provide case studies and a facilitated discussion to better understand the potential implications and challenges for policymakers of engaging with humanities researchers.
The London Strategy and Policy Network and the London Research and Policy Partnership invite you to join a session to explore the contributions that humanities research can make to policy by bringing together humanities researchers and policymakers from across the capital and beyond.
Welcome and introduction (1:00 – 1:10pm)
Chaired by:
Professor Ben Rogers, Professor of Practice, University of London & Bloomberg Fellow to LSE Cities
Overview: How can humanists and policymakers work together? Benefits and opportunities of humanities research and policy engagement (1:10 – 1:20pm)
Presented by:
Jo Fox, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research & Engagement) & Dean, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Case study 1: Lessons from ‘The Pandemic and Beyond: the Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery (1:20 – 1:30pm)
Presented by:
Pascale Aebischer, Professor of Shakespeare and Early Modern Performance Studies, University of Exeter and PI of The Pandemic and Beyond: the Arts and Humanities Contribution to Covid Research and Recovery, University of Exeter.
Case study 2: Place-making, diversity and co-production: making visible the layers of London (1:30 – 1:40pm)
Presented by:
Justin Colston, Senior Lecturer at Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
Q & A / Discussion (1:40 - 1:55pm)
Closing remarks (1:55 - 2pm)
ABOUT LRaPP:
London Research and Policy Partnership (LRaPP) is a new partnership aimed at promoting greater synergy between London government and the academic research community.
The Partnership is evolving among movements bringing universities and local communities, cities and regions closer together - the ‘civic universities agenda’. It encourages universities to use their expertise and organisational resources to address pressing public policy challenges.
There are many examples of London's academics and public sector working together. Yet, most of these relationships develop in an ad hoc way. LRaPP takes a systematic approach through proactive and sustained engagement between the university and government sectors.
London Strategy and Policy Network
This network brings together people working in policy & strategy working in local government across London to learn new insights on cross-cutting issues and new methods in how to develop insight, policy, strategy & change.
This helps them support their organisations make sense of how to tackle issues which cut across various services and that require a whole system approach across local places to tackle.
1. A virtual environment for developers to build useful
applications based on local challenges
2. What’s the need?
• Involving people in
developing solutions
to community needs
• Growing the local
digital economy
• Adapting to new uses
of technology
3. Transparency Open Data Big Society
“Create a new ‘right to data’ so
that government-held datasets
can be requested and
used by the public
“Ensure all data published by
public bodies is published in
an open and standardised
format”
“Enable businesses & non-profit
organisations to build
innovative applications
and websites“
Salaries & expenses, spending & contracts/tenders over £500, meeting minutes, service & performance data
Building the Big Society
4. …by supporting the local digital economy
Open Kent
Open Access Open Data Open Innovation
Provide platform & training
toolkit for public & staff
to access, use and
visualise information
Publish public information in
an open & standardised format
Provide environment for
businesses & non-profits to
build innovative applications
and websites
5. …to help develop applications with
the local community Help
yourself
Do it
together
Fix my
neighbourhood
6. Building on our work…
With Pic & Mix/Open Kent, Total Place, Transformed by You
7. Get people together online to
submit challenges and develop
digital applications
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8. Aims
Enable people to turn digitally-based
ideas into innovations
Using new tools to develop applications
in a cheap, quick & easy way
Make the best use of local talent to
develop digital solutions to your needs
9. Benefits
• Makes the best use of
cheap and accessible
infrastructure
• Reduces the costs of
developing & procuring
technology
10. Approach
• Engage local services to find out what
challenges you face that you want to
use and test digital solutions
• Engage local digital sector to find out
how we can involve them in developing
digital solutions to challenges you face
Editor's Notes
We submitted the concept to the LGC Innovate08 competition which would reward the most “creative solutions that harness technology to tackle social and economic problems”. We were selected to go forward to the finals and arranged for Microsoft to mentor the team on presenting for the “dragons den” style panel at the finals. After strong competition, we won the overall competition.
We developed Pic and Mix with IBM, a strong partner of KCC and leading pioneer of visualizing information which provides access to other free information products.
Enables Open Kent to be franchised to local councils needing to fulfil government requirement to open up their data
Imagine if your local council gave you the tools to work out how you could help yourself, fix the neighbourhood or even change your world?
Although Open Kent currently focuses on public information, it could technically be used, if so desired, to enable users to submit user generated data, such as when there is snow in their drive or reporting potholes.
Enables local developers to build online services so councils don’t have to
Open Kent makes it easier for people to pick a wide range of free and accessible content and tools and mix them together to visualise the information they need.
People can use web applications from Open Kent depending on what they need at any given time or place. Staff and citizens may only want to use an application someone else created earlier.
Encourage community engagement
Opens up ability for citizens to fact check rather than rely on media interpretation
Encourages greater confidence in public activity
Helps citizens better understand and scrutinize public services
Enables communities to use it to help councils solve local problems or solve them themselves
Shows what people can do for themselves and each other
Community groups, small businesses and other public sector agencies may want to create their own applications. What they create can benefit others, whether it’s to see how councils spend their money, find local schools or report potholes.