Presentation6 Technical Module

Oylum Boran | Module 5: Technical 11.18.2011

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Module 5: Technical

oylum boran / 11.18.2011


Thesis!

How can we empower citizens to better advocate for their own community

needs by taking collective action?

How can we achieve this with digital and mobile technologies?


What I DO mean by Collective Action…!

Individuals with shared goals take action themselves and this forms a collective aggregate.

Collection of individual actions that serve for a higher goal and create impact as a whole.

Increase the ability of individuals to engage in change, aggregation of individual actions to a wholesome.


Early Proposal!


How does successful examples achieve it?


3 forms of participation in civic engagement

Peoplemakeparks.org openIDEO.com Extraordinaries - Sparked.com

Physical Online Mobile


1. Physical Participation!

People gather to discuss, share ideas, stories, draw on a board, create models etc.

▴  Steps – 8 steps to participate

▴  Tools





▴  Tools





▴  Tools



3 ways of participation



2. Online Participation!

Online platform for creative thinkers, a place where people design together for social good.

▴  Challenges created by organizations

▴  5 steps of evolution + timeline

▴  Starts with info gathering, ends with evaluation.

▴  Personal data visualization







▴  Personal data collection























3 ways of participation




3. Mobile Participation!

Got a Few Minutes Free? Be Extraordinary! A mobile app that motivates volunteering on the go.

▴  Missions created by organizations or people.

▴  Individuals pick missions and do what they require.

▴  Track your and others’ improvement.















Not available anymore! Transformed into Sparked.com


Sparked.com

An online volunteering website.

You offer your skills, it matches them with challenges.

You contribute to solve the challenges using your skills.

Personal metrics


Open IDEO Sparked Extraordinaries People Make Parks

Platform Online Online Mobile Physical

Facilitator Org | Companies NGO Org | People Hester Street C.

Participant Creative thinkers People with skills People Citizens, neighbors

Method Challenges Challenges Missions Tools

Task difficulty High High Low Low

Steps of execution Linear - - Non-linear

Timeline Sep. for each step (avg 2-3 months)

Days left (avg 20 days)

? Sep for each tool (prep-months, exe-hrs)

Interest metrics # of followers # of answers # of favorites -

Personal metrics total points points for each stage challenges attended (by stage)

missions completed other people's metrics

# of answers # of thumbs up # of awards

Level of entry Very high High Low Low

Level of commitment Very high Very High Low Medium

Accessibility Easy Easy Easy Hard


Open IDEO Sparked Extraordinaries People Make Parks

Platform Online Online Mobile Physical

Facilitator Org | Companies NGO Org | People Hester Street C.

Participant Creative thinkers People with skills People Citizens, neighbors

Method Challenges Challenges Missions Tools

Task difficulty High High Low Low

Steps of execution Linear - - Non-linear

Timeline Sep. for each step (avg 2-3 months)

Days left (avg 20 days)

? Sep for each tool (prep-months, exe-hrs)

Interest metrics # of followers # of answers # of favorites -

Personal metrics total points points for each stage challenges attended (by stage)

missions completed other people's metrics

# of answers # of thumbs up # of awards

Level of entry Very high High Low Low

Level of commitment Very high Very High Low Medium

Accessibility Easy Easy Easy Hard


Grounding Research - Theory

Thomas Erickson IBM Research Center Social Computing Group

Social Computing

Social computing has to do with designing technical systems that support, encourage and make use of social behavior by their users.

Social Intelligence

Using the perceptual, cognitive and enactive abilities of large numbers of people to achieve purposeful ends. Exp. Ushaidi

Crowdshifting

Large-scale Behavioral Change




▴  Collective content creation and sharing – Wikipedia; Flickr

▴  Rating and reputation – Digg; Amazon.com; Ebay

▴  Collective reporting – FillThatHole.org; Cyclopath; Ushahidi

▴  Synthesis of collective activity – prediction markets; Google (page rank)

▴  Serious games – The ESP game (image labeling); Peekaboom; FreeRice.com

▴  Social network creation and use – LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter

▴  Enabling viral spread – YouTube; Facebook ‘25 things about me’ meme




‘Smartness’ = technology - Sensors and meters to collect data - Aggregate and analyze the data - And use that as input to dashboards, visualizations and control systems - People treated as passive and compliant

‘Smartness’ = people - People can gather data - People can analyze data - People can act on data - and they do this in ways that are qualitatively different from what digital systems do

VS




“ Social Intelligence is especially appropriate for cities and regions

That’s where the people are:

▴  Inhabitants develop a deep knowledge of the places they live, work and socialize in

▴  Inhabitants have a practical motivation for participating: it impacts their daily lives

▴  Inhabitants identify with places, and have networks of family and friends “


Grounding Research - Practice

Report prepared by PSFK for United Nations Global Pulse












Back to my thesis



My Platform

Platform Online + Mobile participation components

Facilitator Organizations + Individuals (An organization, an institution, an citizen, a teacher, an artist, an activist.)

Participant People (A student, a citizen, an activist, an animal-lover, an environmentalist, a volunteer, a driver, an officer, a bored individual)

Method Challenges

Task difficulty Moderate (Depends on the challenge)

Steps of execution + Voting Some sort

Timeline ?

Interest metrics ?

Personal metrics ?

Level of entry Easy

Level of commitment Moderate (depends on challenge)

Accessibility Easy


Who will use this? !

What will be their experiences?!


Next Steps!

▴  Use cases – User scenarios

▴  Solidify the platform concept – think about components

▴  Look at technological needs (Web app – mobile – database – mapping)

▴  Prepare mock-ups for the information architecture.


Tesekkurler!


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