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ICT-Enabled Collaborative Policy Development:

The Case for Crowdsourcing

Engr. Pierre Tito Galla, PECE

Democracy.Net.PH

February 11, 2013


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Collaborative Policy

Development:

The Current Model

Face-to-face meetings

Significant logistical requirements

Venue and attendee transport

Availability and common scheduling of key attendees, resource persons,

decision-makers

Preparation and distribution of meeting materials

Remember: significant time and effort is already being spent

even before the meeting has been convened.

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Crowdsourcing for


Development

What is crowdsourcing?

Formal definition by Estells Arolas, E. and Gonzlez Ladrn-de-Guevara, F. (2012), Towards an integrated crowdsourcing definition,

Journal of Information Science:

In simple terms: crowdsourcing is the outsourcing of tasks to a

distributed group of committed and engaged people, typically through

the use of the Internet and ICT. 3

"Crowdsourcing is a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organization, or company

proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking

of a task. The undertaking of the task, of variable complexity and modularity, and in which the crowd should participate bringing their

work, money, knowledge and/or experience, always entails mutual benefit. The user will receive the satisfaction of a given type of

need, be it economic, social recognition, self-esteem, or the development of individual skills, while the crowdsourcer will obtain and

utilize to their advantage that what the user has brought to the venture, whose form will depend on the type of activity undertaken.


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Crowdsourcing for


Development

Tools for crowdsourcing

Computer and internet connection Email and chat applications

Productivity applications (word processing, spreadsheet, desktop

publishing, design)

Cloud storage and cloud applications (e.g., Google Docs and Google

Drive, Dropbox) Phone, SMS, and other traditional communications methods (e.g.,

messengerial services)

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Crowdsourcing for


Development

Skills for a successful crowdsourcing project

Project management Patience

Persuasiveness

Periodicity

Persistence

Flexibility and decisiveness Computer and internet literacy

Good written and verbal communication skills

Enthusiasm and positive attitude

Sense of urgency5


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Crowdsourcing for


Development

Democracy.Net.PH crowdsourced policy development

projects

Position paper and proposed NTC Memorandum Order on Minimum

Broadband Speeds

Contributed to the content of NTC Memorandum Order No. 07-07-2011 (Minimum

Speed of Broadband Connections)

The Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom

Was filed at the Senate by Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago as SBN 3327, without

modification

An Act Establishing a Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom, Cybercrime

Prevention and Law Enforcement, and Cyberdefense and National Cybersecurity

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CROWDSOURCING LEGISLATION

The Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom experience.

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Crowdsourcing Legislation:

The MCPIF Experience

Step 1: Objective setting.

Objective of the Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom (MCPIF)

crowdsourcing initiative:

To prepare a draft bill ready for the consideration of Congress, that promotes

rights, governance, development, and security in the use of ICT in thePhilippines, that may be used by Congress to repeal immediately RA 10175.

Step 2: Recruit crowdsourcers.

The crowdsourcers with appropriate knowledge, as well as sufficient

computer and internet skills are best recruited through social media.

Step 3: Give the crowdsourcers appropriate access to the tool used and

establish open and timely communications channels.

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Step 4: Assign tasks to the crowdsourcers with appropriate skills.

Crowdsourcers worked on the individual parts and sections of the

Magna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom upholding the anchor

concepts ofrights, governance, development, and security of which

they had expert knowledge.

Parallel processing ensures the speed of the completion of a

crowdsourcing initiative.

Step 5: Enforce milestones and versioning.

The Democracy.Net.PH core team ensured that milestones were clearlystated, managed, and met, to prevent any incidence of crowdsourcing

fatigue.

Major danger from crowdsourcing fatigue: crowdsourcers lose interest, quit,

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Parallel Step: Continual recruitment of crowdsourcers.

As progress ramped up on the Magna Carta for Philippine Internet

Freedom, more crowdsourcers and experts contributed to richer, more

valuable content.

Step 6: Ensure completion.

Completion of a crowdsourced project answers this key question:

Has the objective set in the beginning been met by the crowdsourcing initiative?

The Democracy.Net.PH core team ensured that the content oftheMagna Carta for Philippine Internet Freedom was the results of the

best efforts to make it ready for the consideration of Congress.

As such, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago deemed the MCPIF as

worthy of filing in the Senate, and did so file without edits last year.

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