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Parycek

Crowd-sourcing is not empowering enough - 0 views

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deliberation Crowd-sourcing edem

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      Parycek on 20 Mar 10
       
      It invites individuals to foist and endorse (or not) ideas with no pressure to consider the full public consequences of them, including whether they can be sustained across ideological or partisan lines, or how practical they are, or how insulting of public officers. There is the published intention to attract a full range of public perspectives, but instead it tends to attract enclaves of people with committed strategies (eg. embarrass public officials) or perspectives (eg. technology is the answer). While national initiatives attract noise, in more local applications of such ideation, participation is often too thin to be meaningful. This all comes down the question of representativeness. If a governing body is going to legitimately use these ideas, and be compelled to do so, then there has to be good evidence that the contributors do actually form a descriptive representation of the public being governed. I think if you have a technical problem that requires particular expertise, then such ideation processes can find the needle in the haystack. Those of us who subscribe to technical forums know how well that works. I think some people feel that public policy ideation works the same way, but it doesn't because in a contested political environment, what "should be done" is claimed on normative rather than technical grounds. Another metaphor for the ranking in ideation is consumer selection, which many in political science would model as rational choice, privileging private over public interests. Should that be the motor for the selection of public policy? I write all this knowing full well that I risk throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I just think we can do better. Some ideation processes should invite people randomly, to ensure full demographic spread on relevant dimensions (eg. age, education, political leaning). Let's have multi-stage processes, where contributors do more than just introduce and rank ideas--to their credit, thi
  • Parycek on 20 Mar 10
     
    I fear that ultimately crowd-sourcing is damaging the enterprise of dialogue and deliberation (D&D).
Johann Höchtl

NCDD Resource Center » Core Principles for Public Engagement - 0 views

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public engagement participation opengov

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  • The Public Engagement Principles (PEP) Project was launched in mid-February 2009 to create clarity in our field about what we consider to be the fundamental components of quality public engagement, and to support President Obama’s January 21, 2009 memorandum on open government.
thinkahol *

YouTube - ‪Reich: How Unequal Can America Get ?‬‏ - 0 views

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YouTube - ‪Reich: How Unequal Can America Get ?‬‏

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    Robert Reich, a visiting professor at the UC, Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy and former U.S. Secretary of Labor talks about the inequality of income, wealth and opportunity in the United States and asks his audience to speculate on what will happen if these trends continue. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [5/2005] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 9521]
Johann Höchtl

How do we get government to share data? - O'Reilly Radar - 1 views

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opendata crime value force

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  • How, then, does the public get access to data, and ideally, to raw data streams?
  • Using force, by changing the laws or creating new regulations
  • Using intimidation, by enlisting the news media to pressure the agency
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  • By creating value for agencies to entice them to share the data.
  • So what, exactly, is public data? Is crime data actually public data, and do agencies have to provide it? If so, why don’t they provide it as a raw data feed? The answer is this: while crime data concerns the general public, it is not exactly public data per se
  • Johann Höchtl on 19 Nov 10
     
    Drivers for open data
Parycek

Does Your Public Sector "Digital IQ" Measure Anything Important?  - 1 views

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public gov20 measure study

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    | SECTOR: PUBLIC
thinkahol *

On the Dark Side in Al Doura - A Soldier in the Shadows on Vimeo - 0 views

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the Dark Side in Al Doura - A Soldier Shadows on Vimeo

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    WARNING: Graphic and disturbing photos between 38:40 and 40:45. U.S. Army Ranger John Needham, who was awarded two purple hearts and three medals for heroism, wrote to military authorities in 2007 reporting war crimes that he witnessed being committed by his own command and fellow soldiers in Al Doura, Iraq. His charges were supported by atrocity photos which, in the public interest, are now released in this video. John paid a terrible price for his opposition to these acts. His story is tragic.  CBS reported obtaining an Army document from the Criminal Investigation Command suggestive of an investigation into these war crimes allegations. The Army's conclusion was that the "offense of War Crimes did not occur." However, CBS also stated that the report was "redacted and incomplete; 111 pages were withheld."  This video is placed with the context of Vice President, Dick Cheney, insistence that this nation's efforts "must go to the dark side;" which included ignoring the Geneva Conventions.  John's story is told, here, by his father, Michael Needham. It is produced in the spirit of the public interest and towards promoting justice and the rule of law.
Johann Höchtl

THE OPEN DECLARATION « Co-creating an open declaration on public services 2.0 - 0 views

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declaration public services bottom-up osimo

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  • An Open Declaration on European Public Services
  • The needs of today’s society are too complex to be met by government alone. While traditional government policies sought to automate public services and encourage self-service, the biggest impact of the web will be in improving services through collaboration, transparency and knowledge-sharing.
Parycek

Economic and Social Return on Investment in Open Archiving Federally Funded Research Ou... - 0 views

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open government opendata study opengov

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    ...to measuring the impacts of the proposed US Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) on returns to public investment in R&D. The aim is to define and scope the data collection requirements and further model developments necessary for a robust estimate of the likely impacts of the proposed FRPAA archiving mandate. 
Johann Höchtl

Google labs - public data - 0 views

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google data explorer visualisation opendata

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  • ​The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes
  • become easier to understand.
  • Johann Höchtl on 30 Nov 10
     
    Data visualizations for a changing world - Google public data explorer
Johann Höchtl

Designing URI Sets for the UK Public Sector | Cabinet Office - 0 views

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URI opendata UK public sector cabinet

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  • This document defines the design considerations and guidance by which UK public sector Universal Resource Identifier (URI) sets should be developed and maintained.
Parycek

Brainstorming an open declaration on public services 2.0 - 0 views

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opengov participation crowdsourcing case

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    In November 2009, the EU Ministerial declaration on e-government will be published. We aim to build a bottom-up open declaration alongside it. We are currently in brainstorming mode. We collect and discuss the key recommendations to be made to governments on how to best use the Internet in public services. Post your recommendation here. Deadline 15th July!
Johann Höchtl

Agile will fail GovIT, says corporate lawyer - Public Sector IT - 0 views

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agile method programming public sector

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  • The Agile methodology is meant to deliver IT projects flexibly, in iterations.
  • But the lack of clearly defined project roles and requirements is a problem for Agile.
  • There are four clear reasons why Agile won't work in government ICT. The most obvious is that government customers want to know up-front how much a system will cost
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  • Departmental budgets are managed very tightly, and they must be approved
  • Agile is fourthly not suited to public sector management structures.
Johann Höchtl

Journalology: Open peer review & community peer review - 0 views

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public peer review journalology

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  • Johann Höchtl on 26 Aug 10
     
    Blog Artikel zu Journals/Magazinen die public peer review verwenden
  • Parycek on 26 Aug 10
     
    Müssen wir dazu neue Software verwenden oder auch mit der bestehenden möglich?
  • Johann Höchtl on 26 Aug 10
     
    Ich kenne die Software hinter Jedem gar nicht ... kann daher nichts sagen. Sollte es ein customized Drupal oder ähnliches sein, wirds einfach (wenn auch nicht gratis). Ansosnten könnte es aufwändig werden. Sollten Bachfellner dazu befragen, er ist u.a. ja auch der mit dem notwendigen technischen know-how.
Johann Höchtl

Wiki:Government 2.0 | Social Media CoLab - 0 views

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gov2.0 datasf open government

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  • Internal (intra or inter-government) collaboration. Institutional presence on external social networks Open government data Employees on external social networks 
  • Increased government efficiency Increased government accountability Increased citizen engagement and participation Increased innovation
  • Potential loss of privacy Invalid data
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  • 1) what data should the government share and 2) how does data influence the public sphere
  • The optimists decry the modern instantiations of bureaucracy and policy in which democratic governments operate as the source of democratic ills and support the normative idea of an informed and engaged public.  Pessimists counter that the normative model of democracy most accepted in the literature is a novel construction that is not grounded in the natural behavior of citizens.
  • The innocence of Americans is either explained as a rational choice under the principle of rational ignorance (Downs, 1957) or explained as something inherent in the lack of mental sophistication in humans.
  • Government 2.0 attempts to correct the problems of information diffusion by assuming that people are simply unable or unwilling to find information in the offline world.  If the barriers to information acquisition are lowered then, the theory goes, people will be more likely to find, synthesize and use information in decision-making processes.
  • Feedback loops: Who will be active in these loops? How will the public respond? 
  • People usually think about explicit citizen participation, but some of the most pwrful Web 2.0 tools aren't about that: it's about ppl who are participating w/o knowing they are participating. Google is actually one of the great engines of harnessing participation, anyone who clicks on a link is participating, a link is a vote, meaning hidden in something they're doing already. Wikipedia isn't the only place where people are contributing.
  • The amount of data being shared/collected about people is growing exponentially, old notions of privacy need to be replaed by ideas of visibility and control: give more control over who gets to see it. We are better off with more visibility and control than stopping people from collecting data. The data is incredibly useful, applicaitons depend on data, people willingly giving up that privacy about where they are all the time.
  • many programs go wrong, generically, (what worries me) government is still very much an insider's game, we have not yet really built a system that allows real participation
  • Another gov 2.0 observation: it's very hard for a government agency to start over, it's not like private sector, where companies with bad ideas go out of business. Government agencies don't go out of business. (consumers benefit from newspapers going out of business) We don't have creative destruction in gov't, the basic machinery of it just gets bigger and more entrenched. Need to figure out how to start over: what not to do
  • The toughest part about Web 2.0, Gov 2.0, etc, might be the role of management. It used to be about defining the outcome and monitoring the progress towards that outcome. In Web 2.0 you don't know what that outcome is, it's a huge leap of faith, and takes a tremendous amount of adjusting to that approach. Do we need a different set of metrics? Yes. Media is intersecting with technology, technology is a new channel for media, even Hollywood is changing: oh my goodness, we have to create entirely new financial models!
  • "The future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed." It's a cultural issue here, people are stuck in the past and we need a new wave of innovators or we should just expect slow results.
Parycek

Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0 - 1 views

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opengov Gov20 au

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    Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Full Publication (pdf)
Johann Höchtl

Open Data Challenge - 0 views

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opendata challenge google price

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  • European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year
  • We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and the general public to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting using open public data.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data Has Little Value If People Can't Use It - Craig Hammer - Harvard Business Review - 1 views

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open data value people use HBR

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  • the hard reality is that much of the public has been left behind, or tacked on as an afterthought
  • So how can we support "data-literacy" across the full spectrum of users, including media, NGOs, labor unions, professional associations, religious groups, universities, and the public at large? Here's one approach. It's time and resource intensive, but crucial — institutionalizing data literacy across societies.
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