Post on 17-May-2015
Code for Europe brings change agents to your cityThey help foster innovationAnd help cities work with commons and technology
In 2013 10 fellows worked in 7 cities throughout EU They created 8 apps that are now shared via Github and EuropeCommons.org
Join us! Become a host city or a code fellowGo to www.codeforeurope.net for more information
Change agents
Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy AdvisorCity of Amsterdam
24 hour citizens
Tech Gap?
• Cities are multilayered (hierarchical) , challenged by budget cuts, slow down with urban redesign projects!
• Old procurement structures (vendor lock)!
• General risk averse!
• 24 hours connected!• Changing needs: craving for
immediate feed-back from city!• Want to leverage on the
rapid development of Internet tech and social media!
City: Citizens:
Trends that will transform city governance ….!
Trends
City = Interface
Trends
Platformism
Trends
P2P Markets
Citizens!
City Governance!
Transactions!
Meet the fellows
Alan Meyer Ohyoon Kwon Fellow Berlin Fellow Amsterdam
Piotr Steininger Giovanni Maggini Fellow Amsterdam Fellow Amsterdam
September 17thOKCon
West
East
South
Three projects
West project: Frontline Staff
• Context: Collaborative social services address the social problems in deprived neighborhoods
• Problem: A lack of information system support the practice across organisations
• Solution: team collaboration tool for agile civil servants
• Problem: a neighborhood with citizen-driven initiatives and high demand for community spaces
• Solution: a web application to allow citizens to manage facilities and reserve rooms
East: Social Accommodation
South: Spreading out tourist
• Problem: Municipality wants to enable visitors to explore outside of the crowded central area
• Solution: an engaging app for players to explore less-visited places in Amsterdam
East: Social Accommodations
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Community Center Platform - Features
• Support for multiple community centers
• One-stop shop for activities in the neighborhood
• Community/event space reservation
• Booking requests management
• Offer/invoicing management
• Google Calendar integration
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Programming workshop in Indische Buurt
•Held September 7th
•Aimed to expose citizens to web development
•Inspired by RailsGirls
• We're looking for 2 - 3 developers for coaching citizens
• Trying to gather interest, getting people to sign-up
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Demo
Zuid - Moving Tourists
• Web Content Curation Systemo Curators can add Locations/Attractionso Route creationo Data Analysis
• Web APIo delivers content to the mobile appso collects usage data for research
• Native appso iOS & Android appso urban exploration gameo earn and share badges and rewards on Facebook
Take a Hike! - Components
Take a Hike! - Demo
Download at www.gotakeahike.nl
Fixed the Dutch version only a week later
Take a Hike! - Demo
Fixed the Dutch version only a week later
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Resources: East
• SamensApp:https://github.com/codeforeurope/samensapphttp://demeevaart.herokuapp.com
• Stories, photos, videos:http://storify.com/ohyoonkwon/code-for-indische-buurt
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Resources: South
• Codez:https://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-apihttps://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-android https://github.com/codeforeurope/gohike-ios
http://www.gotakeahike.nl
• Stories, photos, videos:https://storify.com/maggix/code-for-europe-amsterdam-zuid-challenge
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Contact
Piotr piotr@tapangi.com @polishprince
Giovanni giovanni.maggini@gmail.com @maggix
Ohyoon ohyoonkwn@gmail.com @ohyoonkwn
Questions?
Thank you!
Lessons learntFellowship 2013
Suzanne Heerschop Anne-Claire FrankProject Manager Project coordinatorWaag Society City of Amsterdam
Suzanne HeerschopProject Manager
Anne-Claire FrankCoordinator
lessons learnt fellowship 2013
Knowledge institutes
Developer hubs
Accelerators
Innovation labs
Gathering open data, using open interfaces as citysdk (open interfaces), connecting the maker community, pan-european collaboration between fellows and cities. More in the workshop after this presentation.getting citizens involved, giving citizens a platform to be actively involved in fixing city / civic challangesWe bring you=> open source solutions
Getting involved
• innovation ecosystem
• ‘high and low’ level commitment
• coach the ‘challenge holder’
Professionals with a big passion to improve the way citizens interact with government. Not only making an app, but also inspiring the civil servants they work with to look for out of the box solutions, making the treshold to IT solutions lower, get them excited.
Getting started...
• mandate to act freely
• insight in structure of government
• achievable challenges (kiss)
Getting results...
• 2-for-1 deal
• working with developers is fun!
• “strange duck in the bite”-effect
marketplace of apps for civic / city challenges. Instead of reinventing the wheel, reuse what others have made before. All CfE apps will be uploaded here. Or share your own solution. Mostly free, some not.=> to conclude
Getting online...
• cities are not app publishers, yet
• open source
• fellow > coder
apply as code partner or become a hosting city. or join our network. => questions
we code for europe
So quick sum up:change agents to your citydatabase with apps and code to shop from: free and interchangeablecreating ecosystem for innovation=>join us
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So quick sum up:change agents to your citydatabase with apps and code to shop from: free and interchangeablecreating ecosystem for innovation=>join us
we code for europeEurope Commons
Paul MacKay Data TechnologistNESTA
So quick sum up:change agents to your citydatabase with apps and code to shop from: free and interchangeablecreating ecosystem for innovation=>join us
Lots of great digital public sector innovation happens locally.
People are motivated to create solutions for where they live and pilots often start in one locality. However, instances of successful collaboration and sharing are still few and far between, in part because there is no easy, structured way to share knowledge about practice, let alone the software and source code.
Cities also suffer from ‘not invented here’ syndrome, wishing to build their own bespoke services, which may result in them reinventing the wheel.
For Software to be Shared,People Have to Know It Exists.
(or: “Governments That Work Like The Web”)
App Marketplace:Key to Re-Use of Civic Apps
Enter Code for America Commons – a marketplace for open innova6on in government in the US that tracks hundreds of so<ware applica6ons that have been created, used or deployed by nearly 300 ci6es.
The CfA Commons was designed to serve as a community-‐edited resource that would help governments and other public service organiza6ons make beGer use of scarce technology dollars by sharing technology informa6on among governments and ins6tu6ons.
Like an app store for ci6es which is directly fostering the crea6on and growth of a community of civic technologists sharing not only informa6on about the applica6ons they use and their experiences with them, but also the very applica6on code.
How do we apply this model to the Europe?
How can we create a distributed innova6on resource that encourages more government to government reuse of successful applica6ons?
How can we start to use systems like this to track effec6veness/impact of digital applica6ons?
Open Civic project – we are working with the creators of Civic Commons so<ware to power the CfA commons, and partners in Africa, La6n America and the Caribbean, to develop shared so<ware.
Start to share applica6ons which may have been created in a different part of the world (poten6ally for a very different purpose).
World Bank Sponsoring Reusable Civic Commons Drupal “Distribution”
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hGp://getopencivic.com/
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Applications Organizations
Deployments
What are the main components?
An “Application” is a workingpiece of software that serves
a particular purpose.
App Description
Key features
Creator
Logo
Homepage
Source code URL
Demo URL
Rating
Supporting vendors
Screenshots
Video
Related applications
License
Release Notes
Taxonomies:Application functionCivic sectorTags (free tagging)
An “Organization” is a company, government agency, NGO or team that creates, supports or uses applications.
Description
Logo
Organization type
Address
Telephone
Website
Members
Apps experience
Services
Taxonomies:Civic sectorTags (free tagging)
A “Deployment” is the story of an application being installed for a specific
organization and purpose.
• Application
• Organization that Deployed It
• Developers
• Narrative Details: What worked well with this deployment? What didn’t?
• Website
• Location
Multilingual
First task is Europe has many languages, so added multi-lingual support. Also important for Africa and LatAm.
Initial build of OpenCivic sponsored by World Bank. Plan to launch AfricanCommons in near future.Also Code4Caribbean looking at Commons site. Some activity in Columbia.Different in that software often helping citizens to campaign against government, rather than with it.Similarities such as investment market to allow organizations to pool resources to build projects. Also needed by councils in UK.
1. Systematic reviews and meta–analyses 2. RCTs with definitive results3. RCTs with non–definitive results4. Cohort studies5. Case control studies6. Cross–sectional surveys7. Case report
Evidence
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www.europecommons.org@europecommons
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So quick sum up:change agents to your citydatabase with apps and code to shop from: free and interchangeablecreating ecosystem for innovation=>join us