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

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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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