Open Innovation: opening government, creating synergies and boosting the civic tech ecosystem

Open innovation: opening government, creating synergies and boosting the civic tech ecosystem

TicTec 2016

Develop technology to solve public and social problems, while activating new ways of civic participation.

Our mission

Our beginnings

“The platform for the new era of civic innovation”

Our beginnings

Congressman pay 115 million pesos for an app

218 participants 11 prototypes 5 apps presented at the Congress

Codeando méxico

● Non profit-non governmental organization. We believe in the creation of a community-driven organization

● We want to consolidate the most important civic hacking movement in the country.

● We want to change the way citizens interact between them and with their governments.

● We want to transform the way citizens solve the social and public problems in their cities.

Mexico enters the Open Government Partnership

México´s 20th compromise in the Open Government Partnership was to implement an open innovation platform

Open Innovation platform for the Federal Government to buy digital products and services.

Agencies identify and problem and launch a challenge in the platform.

Proposals at idea level

EVALUATIONFINALISTS

SELECTION OF

Seed Capital

Functional prototypes

PRICE: CONTRACT WITH THE AGENCY

The process:

Open Innovation“Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and

outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation,

and expand the markets for external use of innovation,

respectively. [This paradigm] assumes that firms can and

should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and

internal and external paths to market, as they look to

advance their technology.”

Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: Researching a New

Paradigm (2006)

Main benefit: opening the government.“Public officials have limited access to the latest most innovative ideas in a form that they can use to solve real problems.The promise of opening government is that by connecting government institutions to people and organizations which diverse forms of expertise, government will be able to produce better results. (Beth Noveck, 2015)

Retos Cívicos achieved something else

To boost the civic-tech ecosystem in México.

The mexican context:

In México Retos Públicos

- To sale to government you need to have experience on selling to government.

- Open tenders are not that open.

- You don’t need experience, you need a excellent idea and prototype.

- It’s an open process

What to civic tech entrepreneurs need?Clients.

The results:

Creation of a sustainable ecosystem of civic tech entrepreneurs

-More than 1700 enterprises or groups participated in Retos Públicos

- 40% of the winners sold al least one more time to another government agency.

Establishment of a new mechanism to buy digital products from entrepreneurs

Retos Públicos migrated to the Economy Ministry and today is establishing as Reto México

Prove the idea that public problems can be solved through technology

More than 70 prototypes have been presented to public officials.

15 solutions have been created and implemented.

The main learnings

The main learnings:

1. The importance of a pilot.

- When the legal structure is complex.- When you need to prove an idea inside government

The main learnings:

2. The importance of an intermediary.

- When people don't trust government a lot.- When government don`t know how to talk with a techie

community

Iterate, collaborate and create open institutions =

The best formula to have successful civic tech products.

THANKS!

Catalina Demidchuk for Codeando México@catademidchuk

[email protected]