This document summarizes Derek Lackaff's presentation on open innovation as a form of digital democracy and collaborative governance. It discusses critiques of online deliberative democracy and proposes open and collaborative democracy as an alternative approach. Open innovation is presented as an emerging approach that focuses on idea generation rather than consensus building. Examples of open innovation platforms for civic engagement in Manor, Texas and Iceland are provided. The document concludes with recommendations for open innovation platforms, including focusing on citizen self-interest, appropriate scale, considering policy interfaces, and defining success metrics beyond just participation numbers.
Authors: Damien Lanfrey, Donatella Solda
Policy advisors, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
Open government practice does not guarantee good policy design to translate into impactful processes.
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First presented at the Service Design Master Degree @ Poli.Design in Milan, March 20th 2015.
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Policy advisors, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
Open government practice does not guarantee good policy design to translate into impactful processes.
The next step in policy-making asks practitioners to design policies that are "living agents" rather than mere sets of rules. Policies must enable communities and ecosystems, accelerate quality, introduce enzymes, promote agility and be impact-driven.
Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, and Matt Stempeck present a field guide to civic tech at The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference at the Barcelona World Trade Center, April 2016.
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First presented at the Service Design Master Degree @ Poli.Design in Milan, March 20th 2015.
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How did such a radical change come about? How was it possible that our early very modest endeavors to implement innovations in governance could be scaled up and be replicated across so many different areas at the Bank? How could a vibrant community of innovators from within and outside the Bank come together share experiences, learn from each other and, most important, help to make an important institutional change -- launch an Open Data initiative and empower citizens to provide direct feedback on development programs?
The problem with ‘digital generation’: A study of adult digital content creat...Middlesex University
The problem with ‘digital generation’: A study of adult digital content creators
Karl Mannheim (1952 [1928]) wrote about problems associated with use of the term ‘generation’. He argued that generational consciousness within a generation is not necessarily homogeneous or coherent, as there will be divergent views and practices within any group. Indeed one of the main criticisms arising from comparisons and differentiation between people in pre-defined generational groups is that standardised assumptions and pre-conceptions are made about how they behave and their ability to learn. This is particularly problematic in the digital era when use of the terms ‘digital generation’ and ‘net generation’ (Tapscott, 2008) are used for the categorisation of age delineation (Buckingham, 2006).
This research investigates 36 UK adults using digital technology as they participate in the practices of content creation, distribution and sharing online as a form of vernacular creativity. It views participants not as members of a pre-defined generation, but as individuals within an age range. Consequently, generational preconceptions were suspended in favour of an approach linked to the modes of communication and technologies available and familiar to them in their early life and to their own personal circumstances and backgrounds. Research revealed that adopting digital technologies acted as enablers in facilitating the unlocking of suppressed behaviour and creative desires across the age spectrum. In addition the research findings offer a nuanced set of conclusions where both commonly held actions of purpose and age related circumstances are important. These are alternative to the over-simplistic and sometimes polemical perception that the so-called ‘digital generation’ are more digitally adept and literate than older internet users.
Bibliography
Buckingham, D. (2006), Is there a Digital Generation? In: David Buckingham & Willett, R. (eds.) Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mannheim, K. (1952 [1928]), The Problem of Generations. In: Kecskemeti, P. (ed.) Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Tapscott, D. (2008), Grown Up Digital, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill.
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Social Technology
by Marti A. Hearst
We are in the midst of extraordinary
change in how people interact with one
another and with information. A
combination of advances in technology
and change in people's expectations is
altering the way products are sold,
scientific problems are solved, software
is written, elections are conducted, and
government is run.
People are social animals, and as Shirky
notes, we now have tools that are
flexible enough to match our in-built
social capabilities. Things can get
done that weren't possible before
because the right expertise, the missing
information, or a large enough group of
people can now be gathered together at
low cost.
These developments open a number of
interesting questions for NSF and CISE.
What are the key research problems? How
should these developments change how
research is conducted? How can the
intersection of social science and
technology research be aided or
improved? And how should this effect
how NSF researchers get involved with
relevant government efforts, including
transparent government, emergency
response, and citizen science?
In this talk I attempt to summarize
and put some structure around some of
these developments.
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Visit the Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) at http://www.i-open.org
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Policy advisors, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
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Top 20 lessons learned on scaling up innovations from the Open Data Initiative at the World Bank. The Open Data Initiative has transformed the way the World Bank shares and publishes its data enabling users to have free, open and easy access to data instead of a previously mostly proprietary data policy.
How did such a radical change come about? How was it possible that our early very modest endeavors to implement innovations in governance could be scaled up and be replicated across so many different areas at the Bank? How could a vibrant community of innovators from within and outside the Bank come together share experiences, learn from each other and, most important, help to make an important institutional change -- launch an Open Data initiative and empower citizens to provide direct feedback on development programs?
The problem with ‘digital generation’: A study of adult digital content creat...Middlesex University
The problem with ‘digital generation’: A study of adult digital content creators
Karl Mannheim (1952 [1928]) wrote about problems associated with use of the term ‘generation’. He argued that generational consciousness within a generation is not necessarily homogeneous or coherent, as there will be divergent views and practices within any group. Indeed one of the main criticisms arising from comparisons and differentiation between people in pre-defined generational groups is that standardised assumptions and pre-conceptions are made about how they behave and their ability to learn. This is particularly problematic in the digital era when use of the terms ‘digital generation’ and ‘net generation’ (Tapscott, 2008) are used for the categorisation of age delineation (Buckingham, 2006).
This research investigates 36 UK adults using digital technology as they participate in the practices of content creation, distribution and sharing online as a form of vernacular creativity. It views participants not as members of a pre-defined generation, but as individuals within an age range. Consequently, generational preconceptions were suspended in favour of an approach linked to the modes of communication and technologies available and familiar to them in their early life and to their own personal circumstances and backgrounds. Research revealed that adopting digital technologies acted as enablers in facilitating the unlocking of suppressed behaviour and creative desires across the age spectrum. In addition the research findings offer a nuanced set of conclusions where both commonly held actions of purpose and age related circumstances are important. These are alternative to the over-simplistic and sometimes polemical perception that the so-called ‘digital generation’ are more digitally adept and literate than older internet users.
Bibliography
Buckingham, D. (2006), Is there a Digital Generation? In: David Buckingham & Willett, R. (eds.) Digital Generations: Children, Young People and New Media. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Mannheim, K. (1952 [1928]), The Problem of Generations. In: Kecskemeti, P. (ed.) Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Tapscott, D. (2008), Grown Up Digital, New York, NY, McGraw-Hill.
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The Webscope wiki technology was employed by an international team of practitioners of the science of Structured Dialogic Design (SDD), who worked together from eight different countries located around the world towards discovering the roadblocks facing President Barack Obama in realizing his vision of a bottom-up democracy for the people of the United States of America
Crowdfunding has become an important topic for last years in startups and enterprises. The understanding of the concept has been mainly depicted from a practioner’s viewpoint. However, more and more authors have researched it in order to make it a managerial strategy option for business. The objective of this paper is to bring an overview of the literature and a general description of it.
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The project led by Laurenellen McCann, and it deepens her work in needs-responsive, community-driven processes for creating technology with real people and real communities for public good.
This project falls under Smart Chicago's work on the Knight Community Information Challenge grant awarded under their Engaged Communities strategy to the Chicago Community Trust "as it builds on its successful Smart Chicago Project, which is taking open government resources directly into neighborhoods through a variety of civic-minded apps"
This document is a compendium of writing by Laurenellen created as a primer for our April 4, 2015 convening at the Chicago Community Trust.
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Conference imparted on October Monday 5, 2015 at the Civic Engagement Summit. University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA).
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Social Technology
by Marti A. Hearst
We are in the midst of extraordinary
change in how people interact with one
another and with information. A
combination of advances in technology
and change in people's expectations is
altering the way products are sold,
scientific problems are solved, software
is written, elections are conducted, and
government is run.
People are social animals, and as Shirky
notes, we now have tools that are
flexible enough to match our in-built
social capabilities. Things can get
done that weren't possible before
because the right expertise, the missing
information, or a large enough group of
people can now be gathered together at
low cost.
These developments open a number of
interesting questions for NSF and CISE.
What are the key research problems? How
should these developments change how
research is conducted? How can the
intersection of social science and
technology research be aided or
improved? And how should this effect
how NSF researchers get involved with
relevant government efforts, including
transparent government, emergency
response, and citizen science?
In this talk I attempt to summarize
and put some structure around some of
these developments.
Summary presentation about I-Open's work in Northeast Ohio and nationally building collaborative community to strengthen economic development.
Visit the Institute for Open Economic Networks (I-Open) at http://www.i-open.org
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Policy advisors, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
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Open innovation ISDT 2011
1. Derek Lackaff, Ph. D. Elon University Gary Chapman International School on Digital Transformation Porto, Portugal, July 18, 2011 Open Innovation as Digital Democracy Emerging approaches to collaborative governance @lackaff #isdt2011
2. In most contemporary democracies ... the representative relationship is in chronic disrepair. There is a pervasive sense that politicians and the people they represent inhabit different worlds, speak mutually incomprehensible languages and fail to respect one another (Coleman & Blumler, 2009)
3. Key Issues Need to pursue emerging opportunities Multiple modes of online civic engagement Experiments and case studies Challenges are socio-political and socio-technical
4. Agenda Critique of online deliberative democracy Overview of open online political innovation Challenges and opportunities Preliminary recommendations
6. Democratic Deliberation “process of directed communication whereby people discuss concerns in a reasonable, conscientious, and open manner, with intent of arriving at a decision” (Schuler, 2010) Structured and (more or less) formal Ideal outcomes?
7. “The Timidity of Deliberative Democracy” “..practices designed to present finished work of institutional professionals, spark public opinion, and keep peace among neighbors” – not to improve decision making “… the reality of deliberation is that it is toothless.” (Novek, 2009)
8. Mediated deliberation Most citizens are political “lurkers” who monitor government but are not actively involved Mediated deliberative democracy potentially crosses boundaries of time, distance, and social scale – diversity of viewpoints is key Online deliberation platforms increase engagement. i.e. turn lurkers into participants?
9. Online Deliberation Challenges Time-consuming Formal / confusing “Payoffs” less than effort expended Limited support from governments (Schuler, 2010) Deliberation systems demand diversity, but often unable to engage across digital divides
10. Noveck’s Proposal: Open and Collaborative Democracy Collaboration is crucial, but not yet well-understood Medium / platform matters Egalitarian (Noveck, 2009)
11. Collaboration Participation is more than voting or attending town hall meetings New tools enable collaboration, in the sense of open source Deliberation and collaboration are different forms of participatory practice Collaboration is ad hoc, emergent, and user-driven
12. Medium Matters Online social interaction has technical and design components Platforms need to reflect groups work back to itself Identify appropriate practice and embed in the code Ratings, reputations, etc. Open experimentation and sharing
13. Egalitarian Mass participation: voting Need to provide multiple types of participation opportunities Recognize different types of interest and expertise Egalitarian mass participation: Wikipedia
14. Web User Practice With a few exceptions, social web participation is open, user-directed, and granular Click Consume Produce Formal deliberative rhetoric vs. multimodal, citizen directed participation What are the ways in which online civic participation can meet citizens where they are? How do we make online civic participation banal?
15. Crowds aren’t wise, but networked individuals are effective. Open Innovation
16. Open innovation Emerging approach to online civic engagement Focus is on idea generation, rather than consensus building Worth examination as an engagement and participation approach in itself In practice, many benefits of deliberation (more informed opinions, etc) can be realized through open innovation processes
25. “Participation Theater” To what extent is the online process connected to action? Not just an “online” problem, but citizen participation is often a sham “Earn badges” or influence policy?
26. Technical Challenges User identity management Cascade effects in voting Duplication of ideas Others?
27. Open Government Directive Dialogue Summer 2009, public invited to engage with Obama’s transparency memo, http://opengov.ideascale.com/
28. #FAIL? 4,000 users, 1,100 ideas Trolled by WorldNetDaily Top ideas about America’s drug prohibitions (rather than open government) Savvy early participants left site after first week Brought new participants into policy discussions
31. #EPICFAIL “Last week, the top five entries in the "Liberty and Freedom" category were: ban handguns, "drop the idea that we're a 'Christian' country," declare abortion "none of the government's business," allow gays to serve openly in the military and legalize marijuana. Republican leaders mentioned none of these when they began highlighting proposals from the project. Instead, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., called for numerous spending cuts, including canceling unspent stimulus dollars and freezing government pay raises.” "It's not a 'top vote gets in’ deal.” HuffPo, 6/20/10
33. Manor Labs October 2009 Partnership with Spigit, PeaceDot 42 ideas and 2 implementations 1st month 3,700 participants, 91 ideas, 780 posts 10 ideas to final stage, 6 implemented Auto-billing, more online city resources, etc. More complex ideas aborted or unfinished
34. Open Innovation as Collaborative Democracy: Icelandic Skugga-sites nothing
36. Skuggaborg Invited policy proposals via an open innovation website Each party given a “branded” section of the site ~1,200 users registered, mostly to participate In the Best Party section
37. Better Reykjavik After winning the election, Best Party asked for new section of site to inform coalition negotiations 5,000 participants, 800 priorities debated Best Party took top priorities and added them to their platform, e.g. Send siblings to the same schools Make swimming pools more accessible for families Improvements to parks and green spaces Create website for citizens to submit neighborhood repair notices Reykjavik now has commissioned new site (tentatively “New and Better Reykjavik”)
39. Citizen Self Interest Open political innovation platforms work best when participation is self-interested Collaboration based on multiple strengths Ex: SeeClickFix
40. Appropriate Scale Consider the size and type of population you want to reach What scales of participation are reasonable and necessary to achieve goals? Design to engage broader publics
45. http://isdt.yrpri.org What are the priorities of ISDT 2011? Short term? Longer term? What questionsdigital transformationneed further attention? How can the social and technical challenges of open innovation processes be addressed? How can interfaces between grassroots open innovation activism and official policy-making be developed?
Editor's Notes
Workshop – goal is to be provocative, take advantage of the broad expertise in the roomOnline civic engagement is all experimentalPlease interrupt
A crisis?
Critique to provoke debate – not mine, but I find it a useful way to think about how open innovation fits into larger online political processes
Noveck’s critique – not sinisterAssumption that political process is structured to translate talk into action
Douglas Schuler
For better or worse (Nick Carr would say definitely for the worse):Participatory projects characterized by low entry costs and increasing options for participationShould formal rheorical debate be the only way for citizens to engage one another online?
Focused brainstorming vs. ongoing idea development and refinementRemains experimental
Ask for def: Basic argument – crowd estimations are not that bad. More importantly, a comment on expertise, that crowds may be easier to poll than experts?
Ask for def: A business term – turning to the crowd for cheap or free labor. Element of exploitation?
Open innovation also emerges from business and management studies, but seems to be a term with less baggage. More recent use due to more recent interest in the idea of citizens contributing to policy innovation
Submitting, debating, ranking, voting – open innovation as crowdsourcing
Micah Sifry warns that this type of engagement can often come across as “participation theater” – it may make people feel that they are participating without having any real public or policy impact.Sure it is experimental, but we need to ensure we are moving towards engagement with real meaning
Shortly after launch, the top ideas on the site were all antithetical to the Republican platform.
