This presentation by Darren Sharp, senior consultant at Collabforge (www.colabforge.com) was delivered to the Web 2.0 in Government conference held in Sydney on Wednesday 24 June 2009. Citizen Innovation: Harnessing collaboration for service delivery, legislation and policy development. How can government and public sector organisations leverage the participation of their stakeholders in the interest of co-creating public resources?
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Citizen Innovation
1. collaboration :: cooperation :: coordination
Citizen Innovation:
Harnessing collaboration for service delivery,
legislation and policy development.
Darren Sharp, Senior Consultant
Twitter: @dasharp
24 June 2009 :: Web 2.0 in Government Conference :: Sydney
2. Company Profile
• Collabforge was formed in 2007
• Web strategy and IT development for
collaborative engagement
• Collaboration process improvement: analysis and
integration of best practice tools and process
• Experience in delivering mission critical,
high-profile Gov 2.0 initiatives
3. User-led Innovation
• The rise of participatory culture
- production/consumption
- professional/amateur
- work/leisure
• Related to ‘peer production’ Image: NESTA
• Crowdsourcing - distributed problem-solving
4. User-led Innovation
• As it becomes easier to connect,
communicate and share it also becomes
easier to create and co-create
• Sources of innovation are shifting
• Leveraging the participation of:
- audiences
- customers
- users
11. Citizen Innovation
• Process of collective activity between:
- citizens and;
- government agencies
- public sector organisations
- public servants
- policy makers
- elected representatives/legislators
12. 3Cs of Collective Activity
Collective
Process Output
Activity
patterns across
disparate elements pulled
Coordination disparate elements
into a relational space
become visible
individuals comply to
aggregated value of
Cooperation process / set of
individual contributions
instructions
participants of a group co-created innovation
Collaboration add/edit/deletes same pool representing a shared
of content understanding
Elliott, Dr Mark Alan (2007) Stigmergic Collaboration: A Theoretical Framework for
Mass Collaboration. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne.
13. The real promise of Gov 2.0
• Using ‘citizen innovation’ to harness the expertise
of people who use:
- public sector data
- public services
- government policy
- legislation
14. Sounds good: when do we get some?
Citizen innovation is already here.
It’s just not evenly distributed.
Thanks William Gibson!
34. Roadmap for Citizen Innovation
1) Identify lead citizens
2) Provide access to open data, tools and APIs
3) Build user communities
4) Reward collective activity
36. Roadmap for Citizen Innovation
1) Identify lead citizens
2) Provide access to open data, tools and APIs
3) Build user communities
4) Reward collective activity
5) Engage in genuine co-creation activities
38. Summary
• The rise of participatory culture
- social web makes it easy to connect, share & co-create
• Citizen Innovation
- process of collective activity (the 3Cs)
• Gov 2.0 : thinking and acting strategically
- collaborate with the people who use your services
• The nature of power has shifted
- distributed, emergent, self-organising and non-linear
• Gov needs to be agile and amplify its role as enabler
- become a trusted partner in citizen innovation