Emerging Concepts & Project ideas

Georgios Karamanolisgeorge@crowdpolicy.com

Agenda

• Emerging Concepts- Opendata - Crowdsourced Data - Bigdata- “Synathina” Case- FOIA- Policymonitor- Sustainability model

Your Data Stories• Project ideas

- Policesemy

Data combination - Technology landscape

• OpenData• Crowdsourced

Data• Big Data / Sensors

“Smart front ends”, Services!

What could be missing ;● Problems and solutions /potential business cases related to opendata● bottom up pressure

eg Collaborative policy making mechanisms and processes

● the mobilization of an “Open private sector” ○ business registries ○ product information○ open supply chains○ Social - Technology driven synergies eg open food network

● A sustainable combination of opendata, private sector’s data, BIG data

Synathina Case , Οpen Technology and Open Data meets Civil society..

http://www.synathina.gr/

FOIA platform - Bottom upFOIA Machine is an open-source platform that empowers citizens and journalists to easily prepare, file and track multiple public records requests to various governmental and public agencies worldwide. This site helps users access government documents and data that are covered by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws allowing citizens to obtain information vital to the workings of their government.

FOIA Machine was initially funded with a John S. Knight Foundation Prototype grant

FOIA Machine users will be able to:

● Prepare an open records request following the applicable laws of that jurisdiction

● Send requests directly to the correct person or department● Track requests from filing through receipt of records● Rally support for their requests when governments are unresponsive

Policymonitor Case

Supported in part by a grant from the Foundation Open Society Institute in cooperation with the Open Society Initiative for Europe of the Open Society Foundations

The sustainability model• implementation of novel open government high value added

services, with embodied transparency elements.

• These services provide direct benefits to citizens as well as enhance increasing returns for regional governance providing feedback and knowledge on improving the services themselves

• The involved pillars interact, exchange data and feedback, increased transparency and accordingly improve the operational and administrative capacity of the regional government through the degree of civic engagement and utilization of data by interested parties from the civil society and business firms.

The sustainability model