Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing: new way

of city innovation

Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy Advisor-

@KatalinG

1. Global City Trends

This how we like to work

This is how cities are working

Tech Gap? City

• Cities are more then ever multilayered, challenged by budget cuts, stagnation urban construction projects

• Old procurement structures (vendor lock)

• General risk averse

Citizens

• 24 hours connected• Changing needs: craving for

immediate feed-back from city

• Want to leverage on the rapid development of Internet tech and social media

…cities are incredibly challenged•Are reaching their limits for finding new

solutions, generate new projects

•Citizens wants more transparency, innovation

•“Cognitive Surplus’ of the crowd to collaborate on urban solutions is still untapped

Trends that will transform city governance ….

1.City = Interface

2. Platformism

3. P2P markets

How can City Governance address the tech gap,

while enhancing transparency and

fostering innovation?

•Open Innovation we can tackle some of the urban challenges and shorten up innovation incubation time

•With Open DATA•With Crowdsourcing•With Urban Challenges•With Crowdfunding•With Social Innovation

http://digitaldublin.ie/openinnovation/

2. Open Innovation Ecosystem & Policy

Wheel

Open Innovatio

nUrban Labs

Grassroot Innovation

Working with challlenges, incentives

Crowdsourcing

Hackathons- Engaging App

Industry

Open Data Program –

Release of Data (API’s)

Activities

Working with commons

Gov

Business

Crowdfunding

Amsterdam Open Innovation Team

• Local Enablers (ICT / Economic Affairs)

• 5 employees, part time involved

• Agile • No structural local

resources allocated

• 3 years evolution process (2010-1013)

Knowledge institutes

sdfDeveloper hubs

sdf

Accelerators

Innovation labs

3. Demonstrator Projects

Our Fellows1. EU project:

Civic Apps1. EU project:

www.openinnovatie.net

Crowdsourcing Platform in AMS: www.amsterdamopent.nl

2. EU project:

www.openinnovatie.net

Crowdsourcing Platform in AMS: www.amsterdamopent.nl

Open Data Platform (SCAN)

Crowdsourcing Platform via www.opencities.net

EU Challenge

4. How to crowdsource

policy?

Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing ingredients

Community

Platform, Tech

Political commitment for implementation

Incentives

Social Media activation

Events

Mediation

Learning's so far• Choose a politically less risky question• Engage local leadership to commit on high level- kick

off• Use incentives that are tailor made to the target

group• As a government be not anonymous but use avatars,

names• Comment on each idea’s• Reward the best contributors weekly• Keep platform with social media activation active• Mediate between crowds and problem owner• Try to save up development costs of platforms by

reuse of existing codes

5. How to make Open Innovation

policy locally?

Policy Making Paradox•Open Innovation is an emerging new policy

area with economic impact

•City governance is more risk-averse and there is a need for proof of evidences/ business cases to lobby and convince

•Local ownership creation for O.I is difficult because it impacts more departments (ICT, Economy, Citizen Services ) -> need for demonstrators

Amsterdam – City Lobby

with Code for America Fellow Joel Mahoney and Henk de Jong , General Secretary of

Amsterdam

Economic Relevance

• Open Innovation fuels the city innovation process

•Start Up Acceleration• Working towards a Civic Apps Store/

Commons• Access to the most innovative technological

solutions and civic apps•Ecosystem of cities, app developers,

innovation agencies strong USP for investors• Scalable solutions among cities (efficiency)• Reusing instead of reinventing

The future• Launching an Open Innovation Policy Doc’s

Repository for cities with best practices, business cases, performance matrix

• Build a clear link with Digital Agenda Link with Smart Cities and Communities Stakholders Group, and City Protocol

• Network of Civic Innovators on Civic Commons

The future

The future

Conclusion

• Open Innovation should be integrated city governance

•EU projects as bottom up demonstrators for local top down policy making

• Governments are responsible for O.I (big data owner, public service provider, purchaser)

• Biggest challenge: Open Innovation embedding in regular governance and share these learning's among cities

Thank you!

Commons4EU, Open Cities andCity SDK in Amsterdam

Katalin Gallyas gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl