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B O X 1 OGP | AUTHOR: MUNYEMA HASAN | OCTOBER 2013 FROM COMMITMENT TO ACTION UNITED ST A TES OF AMERICA PROMOTING INNOVA TION THROUGH INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION BEST OF CLASS AWARDS IN 2013 n Best Use of Data: Sol http://2013.spaceappschallenge.org/project/sol/ n Best Use of Hardware: ISS Base Station http://2013.spaceappschallenge.org/project/iss-base-station/ n Best Mission Concept: Popeye on Mars http://2013.spaceappschallenge.org/project/pom/ n Galactic Impact: NASA Greener Cities Project http://2013.spaceappschallenge.org/project/street-view-for-climate-data/ n Most Inspiri ng: T -10 http://2013.spaceappschallenge.org/project/t-10/ ‘Innovation is bottom-up, decentralized and unpredictable’, explains the SpaceApps team at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In what turned out to be the largest hackathon in history, the International SpaceApps Challenge brought together space agencies and citizen technologists, scientists and developers to contribute to space exploration missions using publicly released data. The event proved to be a trailblazer in setting up a novel way for government–citizen collaboration to solve global challenges. FEATURES OF THE INITIATIVE The complexity of solutions that emerge and the sheer number of participants are a testament to the importance of the International SpaceApps Challenge. The participants use NASA’s massive datasets and open source software technology to respond to over 50 challenges designed around software and hardware development, citizen science and data visualization. In this year’s event, an incredible 770 solutions were submitted. A panel of judges consisting of representatives from NASA, government and civil society organizations evaluated and awarded the top solutions in ve categories, featured in Box 1. How does one organize the world’s largest hackathon? For this 2-day event, NASA collaborated with its 400+ partners around the globe to organize their communities ’ participation . For example, SpaceApps Rome was led by the European Space Agency in partnership with the US Embassy in Rome, while the event in Pretoria was led by the World Bank’s mLab in South Africa. This federated model allows countries to contextualize the experience and is also key to ensuring the event’s success. This year over 9,000 global citizens in 44 countries and 83 cities engaged directly with NASA, signifying a huge jump over the 2012 event, which saw 2,000 participants in 17 countries and 25 cities. Over 2,000 participants also connected virtually from less formal locations. FACING CHALLENGES Although now considered a successful initiative, the road to the implementation of the International SpaceApps Challenge was far from smooth. The adoption of the OGP National Action Plan along with the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, which granted all Federal agencies authority to conduct prize competitions to spur innovation, had already provided the impetus to do things differently within government. But it was a bold risk for NASA to be collaborating with hundreds of organizations with whom they had not previously worked, and with open data and open source software. Naturally this generated some resistance within NASA regarding the value of Hackathons. Nick Skytland, Program Manager of NASA’s Open Innovation Program notes that although government agencies are mandated to be transparent, they couldn’t see the value of that transparency in practice. “The exciting part of open government wasn’t just putting data out there, it was using the data in innovative ways”, Alicia Llewellyn, project manager of the International SpaceApps Challenge chimes in.
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It’s odd you don’t normally think about hackathons from government
organizations. It was the frst time I’ve seen a government organization reach
out in mass to the public and say build what you want, we are not going to put
restrictions on you, and on top of it we will give you access to as much data
as possible.”
- Mk wDeveloper of S
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