open data engagement: ideas for open data 2.0
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Open data engagement Ideas for open data 2.0
Leah Lockhart@LockhartL
Community Manager, Urban Tide@UrbanTide
urbantide.com
About me
Technologist and academic adjacentBridging people and disciplines
About Urban Tide
Helping build smarter, sustainable and more liveable cities for everyone
Delivering open data training on behalf of Scottish Government
Various levels of consultancy with cities across the UKBuilding an open data platform U~SMART
ProvocationsWe have responsibilities to foster
understanding and to bridge technical and non-technical communities in the
development of open, smart and IoT agendas.
Current standard engagement practices in open data and smart cities projects are
simply creating beautiful artifacts and good news stories.
For discussion
Move to open data 2.0
Develop five star engagement system
Make engagement and relationship building core business to open data
work
Why meaningful engagement matters
Legitimacy/democratic legitimacy
Fosters understanding, trust and involvement
Good business by creating things that are useful and useable
Inclusivity fosters discovery
A journey
‘If you ask a superficial low stake question you will get a trivial answer’ and you may get a more interesting
response from deeper engagement.
James Wilson of Sheffield University, Science and Technology Committee inquiry into the Boaty Fiasco in
Parliament Quote via Demsoc blog: http://www.demsoc.org/2016/05/20/beyond-boatymcboatface/
http://futurecity.glasgow.gov.uk/community-mapping/
http://futurecity.glasgow.gov.uk/community-mapping/
‘Any community engagement programme must have a long-term plan, with the capacity, scope and
resources to support a wide-range of groups for as long as is necessary to build their confidence and
enthusiasm.
Over the relatively short course of this project, we have witnessed first-hand how mapping has the
potential to widen the reach of community groups, improve an individual’s digital literacy and technical
confidence and create a unique body of lived knowledge which is open to all. It would be of benefit to the citizens of Glasgow to maintain the interest and enthusiasm for mapping which this project has begun
to generate.’ Observations from Future Maps final report by Future City Glasgow & Pidgin Perfect
http://futurecity.glasgow.gov.uk/community-mapping/
Scottish Government and ideation
Level up
Trafford Innovation and Intelligence Lab
www.infotrafford.org.uk/lab
A destination?
5stardata.info/en/
speakerdeck.com/pietercolpaert/the-5-stars-of-open-data-portals
Idea: 5 star engagement
