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Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Anthony D. WilliamsPresident and Co-founderDEEP Centre
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
A global explosion of world-class digital services
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
World-changing technologies foster disruption & innovation
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
The evolution of mobile computing
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Billions of end points and Earth's central nervous system
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Billions of dollars flowing into robots and artificial intelligence
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Economic and technological change disrupting labour markets
Autonomous vehicles Artificial intelligence
• Labor market analysts and technologists are largely in agreement that robotics and artificial intelligence will permeate wide segments of daily life by 2025.
• Many experts envision a future in which robots and digital agents have displaced significant numbers of both blue- and white-collar workers.
• Others predict that human ingenuity will create new jobs, industries and ways to make a living, just as it has been doing since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
Automated factories 3D Printing
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Digital Innovation: How Leading Organizations are Harnessing the Digital Revolution to Further the
Public Good
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Pediatricians in 120 countries advancing medical knowledge
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
1.1 million citizen scientists helping to map the universe
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Global network of forest watchers monitoring the world’s forest
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Rule #1
• Digital innovation is about transforming systems and processes – it’s less about shiny new technologies than about dismantling or traversing traditional silos that inhibit collaboration
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
• Digital innovation does not require a large budget, a huge team, or a complex governance structure – many leaders are operating on a shoe-string, but leverage enormous talent pools
Rule #2
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
• Digital innovation does require taking risks, fast failure and agile development processes that lead to continuous improvement in products and services
Rule #3
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
• Digital leaders design for participation – they build products and services that invite participation by end-users and they share their most valuable assets with key stakeholders
Rule #4
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
• Digital leaders give innovators permission to innovate – they encourage experimentation and create time, funding and space to pursue innovative projects
Rule #5
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
• Digital leaders have overcome organizational and disciplinary barriers – in each case significant cultural taboos were systematically challenged
Rule #6
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
• Digital innovation is constant and requires a strong organizational commitment – results are commensurate with the level of commitment dedicated to maximizing the benefits
Rule #7
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Transforming Government: Opportunities and Next Steps for Municipalities
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Opportunities to transform the functions of government
PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY
REGULATION AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
OPEN GOVERNMENT AND CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT
POLICY AND EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION-MAKING
Provider
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Easier for Citizens• “One-window” to the information
citizens want through ontario.ca• Services designed around citizens;
simple, convenient, integrated access to online services “24/7, on any device”
• Secure access to the next generation of online services via a single digital identity
A 21st Century Workplace• More innovation, productivity and
workforce satisfaction• Equips workers with the technology
and training they need• Attracts new digital talent into
government
Better for Businesses, NGOs and Media• More useful, consistent
communications about what government is doing
• Helps reduce regulatory processes and red tape
• Single business account to provide an integrated view
Lower Cost, Higher Efficiency• Less manual processing and paper
shuffling• Shifts customers to lower-cost online
channels• Less reliance on external vendors
and expensive proprietary solutions• Creates new revenue opportunities
More Effective Government• Better data and data sharing to
support evidence-based decision-making
• More horizontal and agile I&IT systems
• Collaborating across silos and jurisdictions
Digital government unlocks many benefits
Digital dividends for citizens and stakeholders
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Digital Leadership in New York City
Rachael Haot, CDO, New York City
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Multi-faceted strategy accelerates digital inclusion
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Local crowdsourcing helps NYC reinvent its interface to citizens
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Thousands of “Made in NYC” tech start-ups
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Participatory budgeting lets citizens direct spending decisions
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Singapore’s eCitizen platform for citizen engagement
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Return to Rural program uses technology to attract residents
“Technology is changing everything. Even in small town
Alberta. We used to be a place that young
people ran away from. Now we’re home to a new breed of techno cowboys and wired
entrepreneurs that are changing the landscape
for good.”
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Farmlogs: digital tools & big data boost agricultural productivity
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Food incubators foster economic opportunity in craft foods
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Advanced manufacturing labs close the skills gap . . .
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
. . . and ignite a new generation of manufacturing start-ups
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Transportation informatics and the art of big data analysis
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Monitoring roads, intersections, transit and bicycle counts
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Environmental sensors monitor roadside air quality
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Child care services in your neighbourhood
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
Open crime data and community engagement
Rebooting the Public Square: Digital Innovation for Urban and Rural Municipalities
1. Prioritize digital innovation with an executive mandate
2. Invest in digital talent and create inter-disciplinary teams fusing policy, delivery and technology
3. Grant flexibility to rethink/alter current state and experiment
4. Focus first on “minimum viable products” not detailed specifications and seek early and frequent input from live customers
5. Develop agile sourcing capabilities for digital innovation through open data, crowdsourcing and labs for co-innovation
6. Work across government to streamline processes and remove barriers by making rules confirm to modern development practices
7. Collect and analyze performance data and maintain a commitment to continuous innovation & improvement
Modernizing your municipality’s approach to digital