#gov2.0

[ecologiadigital]

O decreto determina que o planejamento e a execução de programas de governança digital devem priorizar o autosserviço - em que serviço público disponibilizado em meio digital possa ser utilizado pelo próprio cidadão, sem necessidade de auxílio do governo.

[intrasoft-comm]

"The rise of open data, crowd-sourcing, predictive analytics, and other big tech trends, aren't just for companies to contend with. They're also a challenge for government. New technology gives public agencies the opportunity to develop and deliver services in new ways, track results more accurately, and open up decision-making. Deloitte's big new Government 2020 report looks at the trends impacting government and lays out a bunch of ideas for how they can innovate." - Can Business And Tech Transform The Way Our Government Works By 2020? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact More: http://ift.tt/1Hz7cIk (via Diigo, IFTTT).

[mathewlowry]

Can Business & Tech Transform how Government Works?

"The rise of open data, crowd-sourcing, predictive analytics, and other big tech trends, aren't just for companies to contend with. They're also a challenge for government. New technology gives public agencies the opportunity to develop and deliver services in new ways, track results more accurately, and open up decision-making. Deloitte's big new Government 2020 report looks at the trends impacting government and lays out a bunch of ideas for how they can innovate." - Can Business And Tech Transform The Way Our Government Works By 2020? | Co.Exist | ideas + impact More: http://ift.tt/1Hz7cIk via: Diigo, IFTTT

[skous]

Recommendations for building a Gov2.0 Roadmap

Here are some of the recommendations we've issued for the Study regarding the upcoming EC Roadmap for Governance and Policy Making. Note that the recommendations below are based on the research conducted in the above mentioned study and thus there is a lot room for improvement. :)

Roadmap Recommendation 1. Think of the Roadmap’s Elements as Nodes in a Connected Graph

Highly complex environments have a unique characteristic: the elements they include are related and linked to each other based on various types of relationships. Our analysis led to the creation of a graph revealing the relations between the different research challenges as listed in the Research Roadmap.

Roadmap Recommendation 2. Build Clusters of Research Challenges and Define Policy Making “Enablers”

The graph above also reveals which specific areas have stronger bonds between each other by observing the thickness of the edges that represent how many times the relation between two nodes has been witnessed in the different four cases. Based on our findings of the four case studies, it seems that some research challenges are met more times than the rest. This could lead to the creation of different clusters around them, as they seem to be quite dominant and present in most cases.

Policy Making “Enablers” can be seen as bits of supportive technologies and methodologies that can be directly exported from neighbouring domains and could be used to support the creation of applications and Policy Making 2.0 tools. These include elements from domains such as Identity Management, Cloud Computing,  etc. that are being thoroughly researched and have already delivered quite substantial results.

Roadmap Recommendation 3. Promote Shift from Gov Labs to Open Apps

The current landscape could be divided in four spaces:

“Gov Labs” where applications are still highly experimental

“Gov Farms” where policy experts are the users of highly mature and operational state service

“Open Labs” where direct engagement of citizens in experimental apps is quite high

“Open Apps” where there exist high engagement and maturity of applications.

In this context, an approach driving from Gov Labs to Open Apps is thought to be of pivotal importance for the whole domain.

Roadmap Recommendation 4. Define the Timing Horizon for Research

A final practical recommendation for the CROSSOVER research roadmap, which is generated as a consequence of the analysis of the four case studies and as indirect implication of the previous roadmap recommendations is that all research challenges should be clearly accompanied by a time horizon. Such a horizon shall focus research effort towards achieving measurable and quantifiable results in a given time frame.

Part of this research is available in deliverable D5.2 of the CROSSOVER project, while a publication in a scientific journal is pending.

[abpositivelydigital]

Political Debate in Social Media

Political campaigns of the past used persuasive media blitzes often involving paid advertisements on television and radio such as those found at The Living Room Candidate 

Photo: MIH 2014

Although a media strategy could target the desired public, the information was not always available at the right time to the right audience. Enter social media and a whole new world of political campaigning capable of reaching a much wider audience and in particular targeting the younger voters. The underlying question however is: do social media platforms provide an adequate forum for political debate?

A few Australian politicians have embraced social media’s campaigning capabilities amongst the Twitter platform (Jericho 2012, p. 255) and have been ‘noisier’ than the general Australian public (Grant, Moon & Busby Grant 2010, p. 1) – see Australian MP Tweets listing candidates who engage in Gov2.0 (Gruen 2010).

Former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh (cited in Canning 2009) observed:

‘Twitter in particular is a frank and spontaneous way for people to share their views and thoughts – it’s not filtered or tempered by second thoughts, it’s raw and immediate, and it’s 24/7’

To attract younger voters into these debates, a candidate will need to engage in what is seen as important to the age group. Sharing what song lists you have on Spotify, a funny video or meme on Tumblr, an event reminder on Facebook – all of these create “authentic, two-way communication” (Fetcher in Wortham 2012).

Australian politicians running in the 2013 election embraced this ideal from Barack Obama’s campaigning team; that is, sharing with supporters who then share with their friends on social media creating a trust relationship. It provides a tongue-in-cheek opportunity to engage at a ‘grassroots’ level (Rice 2013). See the Liberal Party of Australia (2013) take on this:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3HtNCv3xvM

In the future social media will enable political parties to realign the messages being communicated to the information that voting citizens wish to know by researching hashtags and having real conversations (Russo in Rice 2013). 

Personally, my engagement with political parties has been very minimal. Actually I could safely say I have never engaged in any political debate nor have my friends’ opinions about candidates swayed my own choices in voting. However, I do believe that social media has the opportunity to have conversations where politicians provide ideas and policies and the voting public can support or debate them in a safe and engaging manner.

    Note to eLA: 365 words

References

Canning, S 2009, ‘Social networks a premier tool, but what’s in it for them?’, The Australian, 3 Sep, viewed 13 December 2014, <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26019075-5006787,00.html>.

Gruen, N 2010, Government 2.0 taskforce, viewed 13 December 2014, <http://gov2.net.au/members/index.html>.

Grant, WJ, Moon, B, Busby Grant, J 2010, ‘Digital dialogue?: Australian politicians’ use of the social network tool twitter’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 45, no. 4, Google Scholar, viewed 13 December 2014, <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/campaigns-use-social-media-to-lure-younger-voters.html?_r=0>.

Jericho, G 2012, 'How many votes are there on Twitter?', in The Rise of the Fifth Estate, Scribe, Victoria, Australia.

Liberal Party of Australia 2013, The Headless Chooks in ‘The Gillard Experiment’, 4 May, viewed 13 December 2014, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3HtNCv3xvM>.

MIH 2014, ‘Five lessons your brand can learn from the election campaign’, image in Make it Happen, viewed 13 December 2014, <http://mih.com.au/2013/08/five-lessons-your-brand-can-learn-from-the-election-campaign/>.

Rice, D 2013, ‘Australia’s politicians look to master social media strategies in time for federal election’, ABC News, 24 May, viewed 13 December 2014, <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-24/aussie-politicians-seek-inspiration-in-obamas-digital-success/4711926>.

Wortham, J 2012, ‘Campaigns use social media to lure younger voters’, The New York Times, 7 October, viewed 13 December 2014, <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/campaigns-use-social-media-to-lure-younger-voters.html?_r=0>.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3HtNCv3xvM

[openlibrarydata]

State agencies will operate under a regime of "open by default" for data sets under a policy issued by the New South Wales government this morning.

[matnel]

[O]penness is primarily ensured by providing citizens with free access to government (non-personal) data and information, but secondly about participation and interaction between the citizen and the state.

Henman (2013): Governmentalities of Gov 2.0

[josemurilo]

Publicamos o edital para contratação de consultores de código e designer para o portal da participação social. Resumindo, é oportunidade para trabalhar durante 12 meses com códigos livres dentro do governo, na linha das metodologias de participação social e construção de conhecimento sobre ela.

[ecologiadigital]

O debate sobre os dois temas vai acontecer pela Internet por meio de uma plataforma para coleta de comentários e sugestões – todos os cidadãos, empresas e organizações estão convidados a dar contribuições e colaborar

[caravanstudios]

The legislation approved Tuesday, which was introduced by board President David Chiu with Mayor Ed Lee, will require city departments to provide a list of all their data sets and then create a timeline for their release. What can be expected from the release of more data depends on numerous factors, such as the data specifics and how it’s used by technology businesses and government reformers. Some recent examples of how city data has been used is a locator for picnic tables and other Recreation and Park Department facilities by mobile app developer Appolicious. Plans are under way to enable people to reserve picnic tables using the app.

San Francisco passes open data law to release more city information | Joshua Sabatini | Local | San Francisco Examiner

Nice to see this pass and looking forward to what comes next.  Congrats to Jay Nath and team.

[public-sector-lists-canada-blog]

Best tools, examples & resources related to Government 2.0

Gov 2.0 resources http://t.co/B8SkTIb via @socialbrite

[skous]

Early Results from the Policy Making 2.0 Study

Carrying on the Policy Making 2.0 study we are performing together with the CROSSOVER project, we have identified a list of top cases from a catalogue of over 280 candidates. The selected cases (presented below in alphabetical order) are real-life cases tested on-the-field that correspond to specific steps of the Policy Making Lifecycle (Agenda Setting->Design->Implementation->Monitor & Evaluate) and are in a position to offer added value policy makers in their policy procedures. Of course, searching around revealed a lot of information regarding other innovative cases, tools and applications, but most of them are either in an immature state (and thus not used in real life policy procedures) or are targeted more towards citizens (e.g. they do not offer valuable feeback to decision makers).

The list of the top cases identified so far is provided below (in alphabetcal order):

ALERTS - http://planetaryskin.org/rd-programs/resource-nexus/global-land-change-detection

A Thousand Visions - http://www.spokanetransportationvision.com/game1.php

Arbeitsmarktmonitor - http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_690808/Navigation/zentral/Servicebereich/Ueber-Uns/Aufgaben/Arbeitsmarktmonitor/Arbeitsmarktmonitor-Nav.html

Demos Plan – City of Hamburg - http://demos-plan.eu/cms/?page=Hamburg

Enquete Beteiligung - https://enquetebeteiligung.de/

€CONOMIA - http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/economia/html/index.en.html

GLEAMviz - http://www.gleamviz.org/

Inflation Island - http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/inflationisland/html/index.en.html

In the Air - http://www.intheair.es/

Lisbon City Hall - Participatory Budgeting - http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/op/

LocalEyes - http://www.localeyes.org/

Madrid Participa - http://www.madridparticipa.es/

Maryland Budget Map Game - http://iat.ubalt.edu/MDBudgetGame/

MEL-C - http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/a-modelling-tool-to-improve-the-policy-response-on-issues-concerning-children-and-young-people

Meieraha - http://meieraha.eu/?lang=en&page=main

OpenGov.gr - http://www.opengov.gr/home/

• Opinion Space 3.0 - http://www.state.gov/opinionspace/

• Salt Lake City Utah – UrbanSim - http://www.urbansim.org/Community/SaltLakeCityUtah

• The Icelandic Constitution Case - http://stjornlagarad.is

• 2050 Pathways Analysis - http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/tackling/2050/2050.aspx

• Urgent Evoke - http://www.urgentevoke.com

• YourVoice – IPM - http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/ipm/home

Any comments on these cases are more than welcome, alongside with any other contribution which will enrich our study.

You can also download the full list of cases identified so far at this link: Initial List of Policy Making 2.0 Cases-v1.

[govtoversight-blog]

It’s not about the abstraction about ‘fighting corruption’ or ‘promoting transparency’ or ‘harnessing innovation’ — it’s about ‘are the kids getting the textbooks they’re supposed to get’ or does transparency provide a window into whether resources are going where they’re supposed to go and, to the degree to which that window exists, are citizens aware and benefiting from the data and that information such that they can hold their governments accountable. And then, does the government care that citizens care that those discrepancies exist?

Samantha Powers, a White House official, on the importance of government transparency and specifically the Open Government Partnership.

See the full speech at Gov 2.0.

[eugeneb]

Open Health Data: An International Snapshot

The 2009 Digital Britain Report described data as ‘an innovation currency’ and ‘the lifeblood of the knowledge economy.’  We are now in 2013 and while there is tremendous buzz around open data in general, open health data is definitely lagging behind.

I have been a great proponent of the movement for a number of years after being inspired by Todd Park at a Health 2.0 NYC Chapter event. But it really clicked with me when I saw three young entrepreneurs mashup various environmental and health data, create an MVP app in 6 hours and win two prizes at an open data hackathon. These three students are on their way to starting a company and making a difference in this world while helping healthcare consumers make better decisions in their everyday lives. This is the power of open health data! We, the citizens, ultimately own the data, not our governments and while there is certainly a need to preserve our privacy, there is a lot of “innovation currency” locked up in vaults, desperately waiting to be unleashed.

Below, you will find a brief report (50 slides, but don’t get scared!) that Katarzyna Rabczuk and I put together.  It showcases how nascent this movement really is, while showing samples of social and economic impacts of these initiatives across the US, UK and a select few Western European countries picked at random.

Open Health Data Qualitative Overview from Eugene Borukhovich

The United States is undoubtedly leading the way with HealthData.gov and almost 400 valuable datasets published, ranging from Medicare data to epidemiology. Health Datapallooza is already turning 4 with the next event taking place in June of this year.

The United Kingdom is right behind (or ahead, depending which side of the pond you are on) with Tim Kelsey pushing forward and “unleashing the power of the people to save the NHS from a crisis”. The next NHS Hack day will take place on January 26th-27th in Oxford and some of the recent initiatives to open up prescription data generated a tremendous amount of buzz after a team that included two startups,Mastodon C & Open Healthcare UK as well as Ben Goldacre, published a report that showed how to save the NHS ~ £200M – this news reached even The Economist.

Unfortunately, the rest is very much of a long tail story and as you will see, the economic and social impacts dwindle as we travel outside the US & UK. In some cases, like Germany, we really needed to stretch to find an example of water quality (well, it could impact health) of swimming places around Berlin!

While we have spent the last few months compiling the data, this overview is not meant to be a comprehensive report on all the global initiatives, funding models, health outcomes or economic activity surrounding this movement. We strongly believe that open health data is one of the major keys to bridging the gap between digital citizens and governments and a great way to engage with grassroot communities of evangelists, private enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. We would love your feedback, additional examples and honest and open (pun intended) conversation on the newly created Google+ Community and LinkedIN group.

[happyemergency]

My Article in TechCrunch: How To Build A Revolutionary Political Social Network

I recently had this article published in TechCrunch, give it a read:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/24/blueprint-for-a-democracy-transforming-startup/

[sarahschacht]

"The results in Pottstown got noticed by police in Philadelphia, who were already solving crimes with social media.

Philadelphia's use of social media has produced tips leading to arrests in a lot of cases — from a man who killed an officer to someone in South Philly who kept stealing fake flowers off of someone's porch. The department is using Pinterest in the same way, to help identify suspects, thanks to Cpl. Frank Domizio. His wife was already a fan."