open knowledge festival (okfest) helsinki 2012 - selected notes by attila bujdosó

#OKfestOpen Knowledge Festival, Helsinki

Friday, November 16, 2012

Rufus PollockOpen Knowledge Foundation


open data


what if writing had been patented in

Mesopotamia?


driven by:

info complexity (necessity)

+

info tech (opportunity)


open to anyone: the goal is

interoperability


open data vs.

open knowledge


there was a lot of arguingfor open data


”

“It is a loss for the society

if the data collected is not used.


”

“The cost of doing #opendata is

incredibly low, the potential return high. Why the heck

wouldn’t government do it?

@rufuspollock


”

“The cost of open data is

like a cheap bet in a casino where the potential wins

ARE HUGE

@rufuspollock


”

“open data makes

possible to make better (political) decisions

Juha Haataja @juuhaa


https://twitter.com/juuhaa




”

“ I'll buy the "it costs us to provide data"

argument when public bodies start charging for access

to their press releases.

@JohnWonderlich #okfest


School of Dataschoolofdata.org


http://schoolofdata.org/

http://schoolofdata.org/

”

“CSV is the data Kalashnikov:

not pretty, but many wars have been fought with it

and kids can use it.

@pudo


datajournalism


Helsingin Sanomat election machine

open up data


home loan interest rates have decreased after Svenska Dagbladet's crowdsourced map

http://www.svd.se/naringsliv/sag-din-ranta




open kitchenrestaurant day

open sauna


open design for laser cutting

workshop


global answers to local problems

www.citybik.es


http://www.citybik.es/

http://www.citybik.es/

Report neighborhood issues and see them get fixed.

seeclickfix.com


http://seeclickfix.com/

http://seeclickfix.com/

”

“ We need public good enterprises focused on #opendata and #open

knowledge to deliver the things that really matter

...maybe even with access to tax budget.

James Cameron #okfest


open democracy


”

“For me Open Government Partnership is an exercise

of humility where both government and people say ‘we don't know everything’.

www.opengovpartnership.org


http://www.opengovpartnership.org

http://www.opengovpartnership.org

”

“Systems literacy

may be the literacy for the 21st century.

Tom Armitage, Hide & Seek


”

“

@villepeltola

'People systems' are the most important systems.


Helsinki Design Lab’sDesign Exchange Program

=code4europe

add design/tech knowledge to public service.


examples for social decision making

platforms

@pudo


”

“the culture of

social decision making is THE design challenge

Dan Hill @cityofsound


Tagcloud design applied to leastreviewed and forgotten problems.

@participatory


kittenwar.com

>

allourideas.org

@participatory


Finnur Magnusson, former CTO of the

Icelandic constitution council

@gommit


”

“People are more willing

to pay tax if they take partin budget planning

@gommit


Participants were given a daily salary of a MP for brainstorming for a day about what to include in

the Icelandic Constitution. @gommit


Participants were given a daily salary of a MP for brainstorming for a day about what to include in

the Icelandic Constitution.

That's what I mean by a good way of providing extrinsic motivation!!

@gommit

@bujatt


"You can kill intrinsic motivation by adding

wrong | too much extrinsic motivation"

Niklaus Moor (Swisscom) on gamification

the core is the combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations


appr. 1% of total Iceland population contributed to

conversation on new constitution. Good or bad?

@gommit on public engagement


appr. 1% of total Iceland population contributed to

conversation on new constitution. Good or bad?

We don't know as there aren't many recent examples.

@gommit on public engagement


'It doesn't matter how many people read it but rather

how many people write it.'

Subjective Atlas of Hungary vs. Icelandic Constitution

@bujatt


how to maintain motivation for participation?

you need success stories, you need evidence for the involvement of gov. policy

makers... feedback loops@gommit on open government


"I wrote this sentence in the constitution."

nice story to tellto your grandchildren

at family dinners

@gommit on motivation


the only way to maintain motivation is a bit obvious:

show them that their participation

was taken into account-> results

@RobertHarm on #opengov


people who are active they have tools anyhow

(also offline) to participate.

what about those not politically active?


"Active people cheer direct democracy in order to hand

power to themselves."

#crowdsourcing #democracy


'How to measure success in crowdsourcing initiatives?'

Level of involvement vs. equal level of

representation

@bujatt


Hans RoslingGapminder


open cities


”

“People should

convince government that it is OK to be wrong, it is OK to ask questions.

Roberto Corsini, Helsinki City Library


”

“ People who are concerned aboutand take an active role in working out everyday life

- creative industry workers, activists, entrepreneurs - don't go to library because they're just too busy.

They only go in the early morning/late evening to pick up a book or with their kids. By setting up urban offices in all city libraries we try to invite them to the public libraries to 1. promote their activities to the wider audience of the library

2. promote our services to them



”

“Turn public libraries into free co-working spaces!



www.urbanoffice.fi/en


http://www.urbanoffice.fi/en

http://www.urbanoffice.fi/en

”

“Make standards to

enable simple occupation of wastelands and empty

buildings in Helsinki!

Johanna Sumuvuori, Helsinki City Council


open design


”

“

open design, as understood by @mushon


open design definition


open knowledge festival (okfest) helsinki 2012 - selected notes by attila bujdosó

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