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An introduction to the idea of Government as a participative platform

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Part 1: The concept

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Government as a platform

“The internet’s matured into a social space. With sites acting as social facilitators, empowering people to do X,

Y or Z”

Tim O’Reilly introduced the idea of “Government as platform”, seeing government a bit like the iPhone in that it can operate most effectively and efficiently if it opens itself up (mainly from a data perspective), allowing 3rd parties to innovate on top by creating apps that connect government to citizens in a bottom up way.

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Government as a participative platform

“The internet’s matured into a social space. With sites acting as social facilitators, empowering people to do X,

Y or Z”

Government as a participative platform pushes this idea further into a two-way process allowing citizens to feedback, helping “shape the data” or specifically “shape policy”. Essentially shaping government - via a two-way policy making process. Chris Lopez -

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Part 2: Turning theory into practice.

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The guiding principles

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The following are the various practical principles that the participative platform need to embrace.

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The three layer model

The model that develops from these principles has 3 core layers: an organising layer (at the heart of the model), an engagement layer (driving participation) and an understanding layer (feeding data back into government policy)

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So there you go. Government as a participative platform.

Work in progress

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