Civic Tech: The Future of Civic Engagement and Technology Innovation

José Alberto Gómez Isassi Researcher at the University Autonomous

of Tamaulipas CCO @cityflag_ www.cityflag.co

@betogomez

Alberto Altamirano CEO at @cityflag_ @betoaltamirano

http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/

http://flatclassroom10-1.flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.net/Virtual+Communication

http://www.cobblearning.net/stemit/files/2014/07/evolution-of-technology-timeline-26fvisk.jpg

“ When I wrote The Word is Flat, Facebook did not exist, Twitter was a sound, the Cloud was in the sky, 4G was a parking space, applications were what you sent to college, LinkedIn was a prison, and for most people, Skype was a typo. All of that changed in just the last six years”.

Thomas Friedman

Technology Innovation

“Places where information technology is combined with infrastructure, architecture, everyday objects, and even our bodies to address social, economic, and environmental problems”.

What is a smart city?

http://www.iotphils.com/solutions/smart-cities/

Anthony Townsend

IBM’s Rio Operations Center

http://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/cubic-and-mastercard-launch-the-urbanomics-mobility-project/

Urbanomics Mobility Project: MasterCard and Cubic

“We recognized that one big area of opportunity is how our data can help shape government decisions. With rapid urbanization, infrastructure needs to be efficient. We can help with that. We provide governments with data about where economic activity is happening by state, by region and by market. They find our data is much quicker than their own.”

Ed Brandt, executive vice president and managing director of government services and solutions at MasterCard,

Smart for who?

Open source innovation

OpenSteetMap

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/google-maps-api-vs-openstreetmap/

Ushahidi

http://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2011/07/05/ushahidi-android-app-2-0

http://andreslajous.blogs.com/alternativa_joven/cosas-buenas/page/12/http://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2009/01/02/al-jazeera-labs-is-testing-ushahidi/

MuralApp

Government 1.0

Government and the Internet

Too often, we think of government as a kind of vending machine, we put in our taxes, and get out services: roads, bridges, hospitals, fire brigades,

police protection… And when the vending machine doesn’t give us what we want, we protest. Our idea of citizen engagement has somehow been reduced to

shaking the vending machine.

Tim O’Reilly

Government 2.0

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/what-does-government-20-look-l.html

http://www.steamfeed.com/occupy-tea-social-media-party/http://www.tednguyenusa.com/social-media-revolution/

Civic technology is technology (mainly information technology) that enables engagement or participation of the public for good development, enhancing citizen communications, improving government infrastructure, or generally making national

and local governments more effective.

Civic Tech

http://www.govtech.com/budget-finance/6-9-Billion-to-be-Spent-on-Civic-Tech-in-2015-Report-Says.html

Information and communication technologies are potentially leading to a new generation of digital citizens with a renewed, but fundamentally different, interest in citizenship. If the traditional definition of an engaged citizen is one who votes, reads to stay informed, writes to public officials and attends public meetings, a digital citizen is one who wants to engage with government the same way he or she engages in other aspects of life — electronically, and increasingly through apps on a mobile device.

Digital citizenship

https://charactercounts.org/training/inservice_digital-citizenship.html

• circulate (by blogging, podcasting, or forwarding links)

• collaborate (by working together with others to produce and share information via projects, such as Wikipedia

• create (by producing and exchanging media via platforms like YouTube and Flickr)

• connect (through social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, or through online communities, such as game clans or fandoms).

Young people are using new media to:

We believe the younger generation has a desire to connect, collaborate, and share.

http://www.accela.com/images/civic-tech-infographic-idc.jpg

We  are  aiming  for  a  city  that  is  like  the  Internet  in  its  openness,  participation,  distributed  nature  and  rapid,  organic  evolution-­‐  a  city  that  is  not  centrally  operated,  but  that  is  created,  operated  and  improved  by  all.

“Local-­‐social-­‐mobile”  

1. Education and Network: Follow your passion, reach out to people with passions and interests alike. Connect with them, share ideas, collaborate, create. Build networks.

2. Organize and lead: organize and empower leaders so they too can lead and educate others by sharing they own experience and motivate others to follow their passions, collaborate and engage.

3. Technology: Use technology to amplify networks and connect with more people. Track progress and provide feedback in real time.

Civic Engagement

Civic Tech: The Future of Civic Engagement and Technology Innovation

José Alberto Gómez Isassi CCO @cityflag_ www.cityflag.co

@betogomez

Alberto Altamirano CEO at cityflag

@betoaltamirano

Thank you.