future everything city api 1 april
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City API - Role of Citizen Engagement Platforms in Policy Making presented at Future Everything 1 april ManchesterTRANSCRIPT
Citizen Engagement Platforms:
Showcase from Amsterdam#futr
Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy
Advisor@KatalinG
Open Innovation Policy Advisor in Amsterdam
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Brokering ….
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Tech society Local governance- policy makers
Innovation Agency
Connecting…
Advocating for…
Open Data. Open innovation.Crowdsourcing. Civic Commons.
Open Source civic apps.Civic Tech Acceleration.
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Dreaming of a city……
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…that is transformative, participative and agile.
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But. The galaxy of city governance
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• a strong urge for status quo• An advocacy for internal organization and
irrelevant control• an image of cosmic complexity and multiple layers• Less receptiveness towards new technologies• Preference of internal capacities beyond external
knowledge
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• Strive for perfection and control• Retrospective instead of future oriented
• Risk averse• Repair instead of ‘create’
• Cherishing ‘preferred suppliers’ or ‘pseudo-outsource ‘
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Whereas.-Citizens request velocity. Citizens & their city…..
How to access cities ? Nr 1- citizens adopt
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Nr 2 – city simplifies & opens
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Let’s assume Nr2 will happen!
Through participatory platforms
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City as interface – cities must launch new digital services
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Our citizens
Social media fans24/7 Super Connected
Want to deliver feed back on services & co-create
Urge for immediate response
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Shall we insource?Outsource?
How much does it cost?We don’t have capacity for maintenance
Who will host it?Who will mediate with the idea
publishers?Who will make the social media planning?How to prevent that it is fading away after
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Quotes from Policy MakersMakers
“What is the evidence that we should release datasets?”
“How many start ups have been created since we launched the first datasets”
“Can Open Data repair a market failure, inefficiency?”
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Quotes from Policy Makers
• Who will be in charge of responding to the crowd?
• Participatory platforms are often perceived as extra layer of unforeseen, unbudgeted work
• Isn’t it just a luxurious extra work
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Catchy Interface is just a start
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Policy Paradox – a top down quantification of the cities + emergence
of platforms
Amsterdam & the participatory platforms and lessons learned
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3. P2P Markets –We share …
Market Evidence
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Off line meet up evidence
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City Hall Evidence
Subway Reconstruction 2-sided communication portal
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1. EU Project: Code for Europe
EU projects evidence
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EU projects evidence@KatalinG
Local Crowdsourcing challenges
• 400 ideas in 1.5
year• 240 registered
city ‘innovator’• Active policy
maker representation
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High political representation: 206 ideas
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EU Challenge
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EU Challenge
EU Challenge• Challenge Period: Sept 2013- Nov 15 2013
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Petition collector unconnected to city hall
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Local crowdsourcing platform for 1 district
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A beautiful, open-source platform
Big Role: Orchestration behind the platform
And a great replication
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Commitment from policy levelGive incentives participation
Save money on interface interoperabilityPower of Social Media
Look for EU collaborations (FI-PPP, Horizon 2020, ENOLL, Eurocities)
Create local hero’s for Civic engagement(policy level)
PLATFORMS? YES.
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Peer reviewed platforms (Tech spotters!)Take a risk by defrosting a part of the budget of service design
Better to arrange external ICT maintenance or leverage on open source platforms
Do it City Wide! (no silo’s)
It is not just ICT but a paradigm shift (towards gov as platform instead of service provider)
PLATFORMS? YES.
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Need for non proprietary, creative interface/new layer
• In city governance that allows free tech and idea consultations
• That promotes the value of commons, standards, open source smart solutions
• Experimental and entrepreneurial
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