Involving Developers
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This document proposes creating a virtual environment to help local communities develop digital applications that address local challenges. It would do this by (1) involving community members in identifying needs, (2) growing the local digital economy by enabling businesses and non-profits to build apps, and (3) adapting to new technologies. The goal is to enable people to turn ideas into innovations using new tools to cheaply and quickly develop applications that make best use of local talent to solve community needs.
Involving Developers
- 1. A virtual environment for developers to build useful applications based on local challenges
- 2. What’s the need? • Involving people in developing solutions to community needs • Growing the local digital economy • Adapting to new uses of technology
- 3. Transparency Open Data Big Society “Create a new ‘right to data’ so that government-held datasets can be requested and used by the public “Ensure all data published by public bodies is published in an open and standardised format” “Enable businesses & non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites“ Salaries & expenses, spending & contracts/tenders over £500, meeting minutes, service & performance data Building the Big Society
- 4. …by supporting the local digital economy Open Kent Open Access Open Data Open Innovation Provide platform & training toolkit for public & staff to access, use and visualise information Publish public information in an open & standardised format Provide environment for businesses & non-profits to build innovative applications and websites
- 5. …to help develop applications with the local community Help yourself Do it together Fix my neighbourhood
- 6. Building on our work… With Pic & Mix/Open Kent, Total Place, Transformed by You
- 7. Get people together online to submit challenges and develop digital applications + =
- 8. Aims Enable people to turn digitally-based ideas into innovations Using new tools to develop applications in a cheap, quick & easy way Make the best use of local talent to develop digital solutions to your needs
- 9. Benefits • Makes the best use of cheap and accessible infrastructure • Reduces the costs of developing & procuring technology
- 10. Approach • Engage local services to find out what challenges you face that you want to use and test digital solutions • Engage local digital sector to find out how we can involve them in developing digital solutions to challenges you face
Editor's Notes
- #5: We submitted the concept to the LGC Innovate08 competition which would reward the most “creative solutions that harness technology to tackle social and economic problems”. We were selected to go forward to the finals and arranged for Microsoft to mentor the team on presenting for the “dragons den” style panel at the finals. After strong competition, we won the overall competition. We developed Pic and Mix with IBM, a strong partner of KCC and leading pioneer of visualizing information which provides access to other free information products. Enables Open Kent to be franchised to local councils needing to fulfil government requirement to open up their data
- #6: Imagine if your local council gave you the tools to work out how you could help yourself, fix the neighbourhood or even change your world? Although Open Kent currently focuses on public information, it could technically be used, if so desired, to enable users to submit user generated data, such as when there is snow in their drive or reporting potholes. Enables local developers to build online services so councils don’t have to
- #7: Open Kent makes it easier for people to pick a wide range of free and accessible content and tools and mix them together to visualise the information they need. People can use web applications from Open Kent depending on what they need at any given time or place. Staff and citizens may only want to use an application someone else created earlier. Encourage community engagement Opens up ability for citizens to fact check rather than rely on media interpretation Encourages greater confidence in public activity Helps citizens better understand and scrutinize public services Enables communities to use it to help councils solve local problems or solve them themselves Shows what people can do for themselves and each other Community groups, small businesses and other public sector agencies may want to create their own applications. What they create can benefit others, whether it’s to see how councils spend their money, find local schools or report potholes.