Ashish Lall January 19, 2011
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Ashish Lall
January 19, 2011
More than ‘generation divide’
More than ‘new media/social media’
More than scale and reach enabled by technology
More than – just informing, engaging and inviting participation
There is a collaborative community of peers which has information/knowledge/influence – neither government sanctioned nor government driven
o How do you incorporate this to be more effective in doing what you do?
o Mashups are interesting precisely because people will combine data their way or on issues that are of interest to them
o Bottom-up public policy?
Citizen-driven
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Transparency
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Transparency
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Government Services
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Government Services
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Disaster Relief – MapAction / Open Street Map
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Haiti
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Healthcare
8
Data
Source: Hidalgo et. al. 9
View data your way
Source: Hidalgo et. al. 10
Crowdsourcing
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Leverage the community
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Happy New Year Minister
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I only fly kite don fly aeroplane
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Cloudy with Showers
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Police dun earn quite much money
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Hello National Library :)
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More than oversight and accountability
o Participating in a dialogue
o Better informed
o Providing ideas and solutions
o More empowered to solve own problems and co-delivering public services
o Engaged in public policy
How about the negative effects of open data and mashups?
o Privacy, Accuracy
o Impact on property values
Citizens
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Internal organization
o Internal social networks and training to engage with outside
Costs / uncertainty
o Privacy, accuracy and costs of cleaning, hosting, updating
o Be ready for surprises
On what basis to engage
o Anything
o Focused on a particular problem
o Focused on a solution to a particular problem
o Digital divide (restricted to particular constituencies)
How to engage
o Issue base presence rather than organization based presence
o Join an existing community rather than start your own
Government
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