This is a presentation was for 2010 Future of News and Civic Media Conference and the panel session: "Data into Action" Thu, 06/17/2010 - 11:00am - 12:30pm "Our lives are increasingly mediated by computers and data – a shift that is becoming more and more natural to us. From Data.gov to real-time municipal bus information, data in many forms from many sources is being made available and recombined in ways we could not have anticipated just ten years ago, when everyone used the phone book, and when restaurant and movie reviewers numbered in the tens not the tens of thousands." http://civic.mit.edu/conference2010/event/plenary-data-into-action

2. O'Reilly Media

3. Government as a platform

4. Open Government
People Policy Technology

6. San Francisco, CA

7. SFBART Blog Response
Repsonse to rider
BART Foursquare Feedback
SFBART Blog Policy

8. Colorado

9. North Dakota

10. Manor, TX

11. Miami, FL

12. Washington, DC

13. OpenMuni.org

14. Engagement
External Internal
Citizen
Developer

15. Application contests get traction

16. Innovation Economy
EveryBlock (MSNBC)
CrimeReports.com
SeeClickFix

17. MassDOT: 10 Steps to Glory

18. Step 1: Hold regular meetings

19. Step 2: Create relationship principles

20. MassDOT Developers Relationship Principles
1) Respect resources
2) Succeed together
3) Expect change
4) Communication is key
5) Open, open, open
Legalese:
- Building applications does not increase the likelihood you will be
awarded a contract by MassDOT now or in the future.
- The MassDOT will make all efforts to keep data
open once it's been released.

21. Step 3: Become part of the community

22. Step 4: Release some data

23. Step 5: Assess results

24. Step 6: Host a developer day/contest

27. Step 7: Reward innovation

28. Step 8: Ask community what data they want

29. Step 9: Release live data

33. Step 10: Become the example

36. From a government CTO:
We have open data, people just don't use it.
You have to campaign to get people to use it.

37. Police don’t add to gang database

38. Solution = Crowdsourcing?
Sophie08 wrote:
I would have been happy to help out with the data entry.
Police should be doing what they are trained and hired to do.
polyhedron wrote:
Let's be creative: There are other sources of data entry volunteers who can themselves be 'vetted' for security purposes:
All those ministers who have community meetings and say "something must be done";
AARP members looking to 'do good' in the community;
Retired court or criminal justice personnel.
Divide up the work--let the police on the front lines do their part, let reliable others handle the computer database entries.
Once data are entered, it will be far easier to maintain it.
AllForADeuce wrote:
Alcala3 is dead on. It's called an internship, it's required by Northeastern to graduate and it can be,
oh what do they call it...FREE!
homerhuskey wrote:
This is NOT a resource issue. Anyone familiar with policing know that regardless of what police officers or police chiefs say,
there is CULTURAL RESISTANCE AGAINST SHARING INFORMATION.