talk to girl geek montreal
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Slides from a talk I gave on Jan 20th to Girl Geeks Montreal.TRANSCRIPT
VisibleGovernment.ca
Girl Geeks for Government
Only partially available online
Formatted as web page or PDF
Hard to search Can’t subscribe Can’t visualize Can’t re-use
Publishing Structured Feeds
• Ability to subscribe to interesting data
• Data streams can be ‘mashed’ in new ways.
Data Visualization
• Makes it easy to find new patterns.
Collaborative Organization
• Tagging, Voting, Sharing
Crowdsourcing
• Combines skills and input of large numbers of people
Governments publish data
streams
Citizens monitor data
streams
Issues are detected
Issues are resolved
3rd
Party Tools
• Governments publish data streams
• 3rd parties create tools for analysis and oversight
• Citizens collaboratively monitor their government
• Citizens detect issues, give feedback
• Issues are resolved
Graphic generated by Redkid.net
“have a much greater potential effect on the ability to transform government than anything else in the Web 2.0 world.”
- Gartner, 2007 The E-Government Hype Cycle Meets Web 2.0
Web-oriented Architectures:
Why?
Open Systems Allow External Contribution.
Goldcorp
1999: Struggling Vancouver company
Early test results showed gold deposits
After years of searching: no gold found
[3]
From Wikinomics, by Dan Tapscott
50
500
1993 2007
Ounces of gold produced, Red Lake Mine (1000s)
50
20000
1993 2007
Goldcorps Market Value (Millions)
Golden challenge unearths new ideas: Globe and Mail, April 2007.
“I
[The Goldcorps President] realized that the uniquely qualified minds to make new discoveries were probably outside the boundaries of his organization, and by sharing some intellectual property he could harness the power of collective genius and capability
[4]
What if governments took the same approach?
structured govt. data
+ citizen expert groups
some examples...
1st Year Results:•2000 Citizen Reviewers • Avg. Time / Reviewer / Patent: 6hrs
Easy to File a Report
Rewarding
•25,000 Problems reported• 8,000 Fixed
A recent US Congress bill
Groups for bill
Groups against bill
Donations
Votes
Publishing Structured Feeds
• MAPLight is a mashup of data streams from different sources.
Data Visualization
• MAPLight makes relationship between money and votes
visible.
Collaborative Organization
• Advocacy group tagsdonating companies as belonging to interest groups.
Crowdsourcing
• Thousands of journalists, advocates, and citizens can browse data and flag issues.
Open Systems Make Failure Free.
* paraphrasing Clay Shirky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/1308955915/
Where’s the best solution?
It’s hard for governments to experiment.
There’s lots of people watching.
[5]
There’s lots of rules.
[6]
“An online compliance checklist for designers of government websites identifies
no fewer than 24 different regulatory
regimes with which all public government web sites must comply.”
-David Robinson, Princeton Center for Information Policy.“Government Data and the Invisible Hand”
[7]
Let others experiment
for you.
* Save tax money.
• Pared down interface
• Easy to navigate
Regulations.gov
OpenRegulations.org
2003 2008(+few months)
• Launched
• Limited Search
• Hard to Use
• Re-designed
• Re-launched
• Added RSS Feeds
*From: Government Data and the Invisible Hand, David Robinson, Princeton Center for Information Policy.
Open Systems Create New Markets.
[8]
Cisco:127 Acquisitions in 15 Years
[9]
New Opportunities:
Visualization
Analysis
Community Mgmt.
Combining Data Sets
Data Mining
Niche Markets
[10]
Be like Cisco.
Buy the best solutions.
Open source them.
Create an expanding base of re-usable software.
[11]
An Architecture for Open.
[12]
OLD NEW
*From: Power of Information Task Force blog, June 2008.
OLD NEW
*From: Power of Information Task Force blog, June 2008.
*From: Government Data and the Invisible Hand, David Robinson, Princeton Center for Information Policy.
DepartmentReporting
Reporting
Access
Access
Treasury Board
AuditorGeneral
An Architecture for Open
DepartmentReporting
Reporting
Access
Access
Treasury Board
AuditorGeneral*
ExternalGroups
ExternalGroups
* Save tax dollars.
About VisibleGovernment.ca
Focus: US Congress California
Legislature
Gives grants to online transparency tools
$3.5 M Seed
UK Non-Profit
Simple, Effective Tools
High Participation
Photo by memespring, Flickr.com, Creative Commons ASA2G
Ideas
Skills
Funds
Accelerate online transparency
Raise Awareness With public
With government
Raise Money
Fund External Development: Grants
Contests
Prove Concept
Get Publicity
Raise Awareness
Show What’s Possible
Direct Attention and Money and to Online
Tools For Transparency
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Transparency Reform
Measurable Campaign Promises
Publish MP Schedules
Eliminate Data Access Fees
Access to Information Reform
5 Transparency Pledges
Source Code: Change-Congress.org (Lawrence Lessig and Joe
Trippi)
Candidate info scraped from party websites
10 days to implement
38 MPs elected
2 agreed to publish their calendar
[15]
2003 Directive: Must publish travel and hospitality expenses on the web
No standards for presentation defined
124 Departments- All different
Standardize
• Scrape data into standard format
Stream
• Publish RSS feeds
Visualize
• Provide basic visualization app
• Hold contests
30,000 Records collected so far.
4 Volunteers.
155 Errors found.
1 Visualization company engaged.
1 Lawyer making sure things are on the up-and-up.
Tim
e Track
Programs
Expose Data
Analyze Process
Start small, easy
Build community
Gain acceptance
Make open normal
What you can do now.
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• Start a VisibleGovernment.ca campus chapter
• Host coding weekends for open government projects
• Encourage your profs. to assign VisibleGovernment.ca projects in class
As a C.S. Student
• Assign VisibleGovernment.ca projects / contest entries in class
As a C.S. Prof.
• Help organize a ChangeCamp Montreal
• Voice your opinion on ‘VisibleGovernment.ca Discuss’
As a Community Leader
http://www.slideshare.net/jenniferbell
Photo Credits:
[1] 234 social media marketing examples, beingpeterkimhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/beingpeterkim/2909140600/
[2] Printing Press, Thomas Hawk http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/172495285/
[3] Gold Bars, Curtis Perry http://www.flickr.com/photos/curtisperry/56998544
[4] Where’s Wally?, McGarry http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcgarry/111003432
[5] Eye see you!, dotbenjaminhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbenjamin/2636942186
[6] Auntie P.'s ruler, John Edgar Parkhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/edgar/355067220
[7] Chemical Reaction, Neys http://www.flickr.com/photos/neys/2386865187
[8] Landmark Supermarket Trinoma, bredgurhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bredgur/2655954991
[9] Cisco 2950, Marco Wessel http://www.flickr.com/photos/mhw/91952572/
Photo Credits:
[10] Hanging Boken Bulb II, bitzcelthttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bitzcelt/450640323/
[11] United Colors of Legotton, Guillermohttp://www.flickr.com/photos/grdloizaga/817425185
[12] Rotterdam: abstract architecture, docmanhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/docman/2216568210
[13] Roadblock, iboy daniel http://www.flickr.com/photos/iboy_daniel/83671284
[14] just take my hand let's fly away, funkyahhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/funkyah/2400889778/
[15] Amelia Earheart, missrougue, http://www.flickr.com/photos/missrogue/297606078/
[16] Dave Wants You, Chris Owenshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/shutter/105497713
[17] Robots Attack, Andy Wilsonhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/by_andy/2646443630/