Fp7consultation
- 1. Looking for the next GapMinder.com Brussels, 2nd February 2009 David Osimo - Tech4i2 ltd.
- 2. An inspiration: GapMinder.com • started by a Swedish professor and his son to better represent WB data on demographics • developed visual software application reaching great audiences • bought by Google for GoogleDocs • Success: better decisions and technological innovation 2
- 3. General trends • there is no such thing as web 3.0 • new metaphors (web squared?) • government as a platform: building on public data AND on citizens data • data.gov: repositories of linked data > RDFa... http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/28/web2009_websquared-whitepaper.pdf 3
- 4. Anybody, not everybody • reaching out to and augmenting the knowledge of citizens and civil servants (tools) • posing questions you didnt ask (e.g. visual analytics). Crossover between design and IT. Research that lowers costs and increases usability www.ii.uib.no/vis/team/kehrer/ 4
- 7. A vision Government and civil society are not a zero sum game Permantently changing, mutually necessary Bidirectional flows of services and data government users
- 8. Reducing the trade-offs of public decision-making 5"$*)*,6&' 0$,"4"71' !"#$%&' !"#$%&'$ (&)*'+,+-*$ ,+.$/&01-2$ 3&.*001+($ /."0$1,$2 ()*+,"-)+.$' 3)4$0' /8-$*94' ;714:%9)+71' 49:0&' -*7,$44$4'
- 9. "The new availability of huge amounts of data, along with the statistical tools to crunch these numbers, offers a whole new way of understanding the world. Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, uni:ied theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all". Chris Anderson (2007)
- 10. Stakeholders • Government: the smart users ICT govmod (e.g. NVAC group, data.gov people) • Research: e.g. Beth Novek at White House, Harvard Kennedy School of government, dowire.org • Companies: e.g. Cognitive Edge in Singapore • Civil society: e.g. MySociety.org in UK and SunlightFoundation in US • Existing networks: W3C eGov group, govloop, public blogosphere, #gov20, #eups20 10
- 12. In summary • reach out beyond eGov scientific community • involve the gov users (e.g. Illuminating the path) and the civil society • combine structured and unstructured collaboration, theory and practice-based, incremental and disruptive innovation 12
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