Fp7consultation

Brussels, 2nd February 2009

David Osimo - Tech4i2 ltd.

Looking for the next GapMinder.com

An inspiration: GapMinder.com

• started by a Swedish professor and his son to better represent WB data on demographics

• developed visual software application reaching great audiences

• bought by Google for GoogleDocs

• Success: better decisions and technological innovation

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General trends

• there is no such thing as web 3.0

• new metaphors (web squared?)

• government as a platform: building on public data AND on citizens data

• data.gov: repositories of linked data > RDFa...

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Anybody, not everybody

• reaching out to and augmenting the knowledge of citizens and civil servants (tools)

• posing questions you didnt ask (e.g. visual analytics). Crossover between design and IT. Research that lowers costs and increases usability

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www.ii.uib.no/vis/team/kehrer/

International collaboration

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A vision

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Government and civil society are not a zero sum game

Permantently changing, mutually necessary

Bidirectional flows of services and data

Reducing the trade-offs of public decision-making

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"The  new  availability  of  huge  amounts  of  data,  along  with  the  statistical  tools  to  crunch  these  numbers,  offers  a  whole  new  way  of  understanding  the  world.  Correlation  supersedes  causation,  and  science  can  advance  even  without  coherent  models,  uni:ied  theories,  or  really  any  mechanistic  explanation  at  all".

Chris  Anderson  (2007)

Stakeholders

• Government: the smart users ICT govmod (e.g. NVAC group, data.gov people)

• Research: e.g. Beth Novek at White House, Harvard Kennedy School of government, dowire.org

• Companies: e.g. Cognitive Edge in Singapore

• Civil society: e.g. MySociety.org in UK and SunlightFoundation in US

• Existing networks: W3C eGov group, govloop, public blogosphere, #gov20, #eups20

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International cooperation 2.0

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In summary

• reach out beyond eGov scientific community

• involve the gov users (e.g. Illuminating the path) and the civil society

• combine structured and unstructured collaboration, theory and practice-based, incremental and disruptive innovation

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Thanks

[email protected]

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