"ImaginaCity" Open Cities Panel, PDF Europe October 2010

ImaginaCity: how the web is reinventing cities

and cities are reinventing the web!

Dominic Campbell

FutureGov

October 2010

the social web’s a pretty big deal!

Sharing!

Honest!

Open!Relaxed!

Transparent!Collaborative!

Personalised!

Engaging! Authentic!

Fun!

it’s about aspiring to something new: "

new behaviours, new ways of thinking!

Critical Underpinnings!

New Public Management!

Communicative Governance!

Philosophical Tradition!Rationalist, Hegel, Marx, !

Positivist, Historicist!Empiricist, Hume, !

Burke, Popper!

Problem Solving! Technical! Adaptive!

Critical Philosophy!(Habermas)!

System + Strategic Action! Lifeworld + Communicative Action!

Urban Design! Engineered! Shared Space!

Information Technology!Proprietary!

Open Source!

View of Market!Market Rationality!

Chicago School!Animal Spirits and Embedded

Markets!

Communicative Style! Broadcast! Interactive Web 2.0!

Central Government Approach!

Expedient! Ethical!

Approach to Transparency! Contextualised Data! Raw Data!

Credit: Leo Boland & Emer Coleman, Greater London Authority!

building blocks for urban innovation!

open!

social!

democratic!

collaborative!

inclusive!

networked!

DemocraCity!

new spaces for democratic debate!

city government as a convener!

Leadership 2.0 Collaborative!

Action oriented!

Permission to experiment!

Public value over public bodies!

Intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs!

old skool leadership done in a new skool way!

TransparenCity!

"It's about cutting waste; it's about driving improvement

and accountability in public services; and it's about

boosting the economy by enabling entrepreneurs to use public data to create new applications.!

"Above all, it is about a shift of power from the state and a

fundamental trust in the ability of people to work together

to transform our society.”!

! ! ! ! ! ! !Francis Maude, UK Cabinet Office Minister!

the race to open up government!

Open politics!

#opendata for #opencities!

power of public information!

Making city government

easy to access and easy understand

measuring impact and

improving access to

information

•! data > dashboards

•! new performance

management

•! empower choice of public

service provision

•! tooling up citizens to hold

government to account directly

wikicity

ideas for every city – why not?!

Engage Right | Engage, Right?!

Future

Melbourne

- it’s big news!

stimulating public services 2.0!

new ways of

managing change:

social innovation for cities!

DIY cities!

“a leap forward in the quality of life in

communities will occur more frequently

when government opens the door for

catalytic social progress spearheaded by

the many...who make changes daily in their

communities.# Together these acts can

play a part in turning clients of the state

into active, participating and productive

citizens.”"

Stephen Goldsmith, The Power of Social Innovation!

the power of

networks!

“Communities are the human, emotional, and cultural nodes of the complex system of systems that comprise a city. They are where the city’s systems – transportation, commerce, food, energy, safety, education, health care – are organically fused. They are where integrated novelty is created every day out of radical complexity. They are where safety, prosperity, innovation, and social cohesion can arise out of diversity of cultures and of use.”!

Informed and Interconnected: !

A Manifesto for Smarter Cities!Rosabeth Moss and Kanter Stanley Litow !

building social capital! - build confidence and trust!

- bridge building role – online and offline mutually reinforcing!

- lever social value/roi over the medium to long term!

- invest in social innovation to save of medium to long-term!

organising for change!

Urban OS:

smarter city

in a box!

hyper-active local communities "

- explosion of web based tools to enable citizens to report issues"

- less about co-production and more effective customer services and

more efficient reporting for government itself to resolve!

collective action for civic outcomes!“The web has dramatically reduced the cost of collective action” – Clay Shirky!

Examples!

- !Ushahidi (developed in Kenya) now being applied in Western context to organise !community response to snowmageddon, clearing bus stops of snow!

- !Open street map rapid response to emergency in Haiti!

a ‘poke’ to action! - !people ‘just do it’ with or without government!

- !peer pressure for social good!

- !from meetup to ‘I’m here now come meet!’!

- !transparency increasing keep up with the joneses effect, with everyone

!watching each other. Beginning to be harnessed to positive effect.!

InclusiviCity!

“Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody"#!

!Jane Jacobs!

connecting citizens!

Accessibility as key to widen out now!

Access to public services 2.0 uneven

based on a variety of factors!

new technology!

new opportunity!

accesscity: the prototype!

http://beta.accesscity.co.uk!

SocialCity: enabling social mixing

and creativity!

support platforms for collaboration and change! - !the importance of social space for innovators inside and outside of

!government to work together!

- !learning behaviours and new forms of leadership!

- !creating a safe space to share, learn and collaborate!

support social spaces !

Dominic Campbell

http://wearefuturegov.com

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