The raw (unfiltered) input
“Government asks: What is the ideal digital policy of the 21st century?
What should government do?”
Friday Jun 26, 2009
http://www.reboot.dk/page/24548/en
#Reboot11
#vision2013
Photos from the session
Thank you, thank you, Andreas Johannsen.
http://www.23hq.com/andjohan/itstsession
What’s in it for me? Who gets credit if I share my ideas with government?
Conversation between people and the politicians is key and should be encouraged
Continual conversation with the actual people who are going to implement the policy
How can you enable government agencies to become real participants
Government need to build trust first, before the people will contribute ideas
What can people do to help government to push through the changes that are proposed
Maybe government should do nothing and leave action up to people, just listen and respond to what happens
Digital literacy has many layers and is very important
Make it okay for government officials to speak up and join the conversation
Enable dialogue, collaboration, action
Focused co-creation
Stop saying “tell us what to do”, say “what can we do together”?
Wiki law making – open process
The public sector should start using one-man, start-up and small consultancies etc.
- maybe creating a special office that can facilitate this, a tender office for very small companies
Small business innovation research grants
It’s a challenge to involve ordinary people – we have to mimick the way they already know and use media
How about deciding that every citizen has the right to engage in creative work – should be supported financially to exercise this right, like e.g. a two-week grant
Keep the internet free (as in liberty), in Denmark and in EU – net neutrality
How to deal with the digital divide: one idea is to pose questions that relate directly to peoples’ lives.
Government shouldn’t compete with the market, don’t be afraid to lose control, don’t be afraid to give away public sector information.
Where’s the Danish Sunlight Foundation og MySociety – the activist movement
Civil servants are not educated to respond to suggestions from people
A challenge programme where people can pose challenges to public sector and rate the results
Conversation with government should continue throughout the entire policy process
Get MySociety/Sunlight Foundation to Denmark
How to get more people on the net/how to increase uptake speed?
Reboot is the elite'ish crowd, how to involve the housewife from Jutland? getting everybody to participate is not about the tools, it’s about cultural aspects
How can government help new small companies
Opret uddannelse i public consultation/facilitation
When government use consultants/choose vendors they should consider not always using large companies, but rather mirror the fact that the vast majority of Danish companies are small
Use crowd sourcing: New York Law School has launched a Peer2Patent initiative
Governement officials should be empowered to engage in open conversations with citizens
When producing content: talk to people about the content, don’t work in a vacuum
Open up government data, free data
It’s not a matter of ideas, it’s about doing and how it’s done. The ‘how’ is the ‘what’. Inviting to give ideas is an illusionary participation system. How to implement?
What if I as an outsider give you a task and rate your performance on solving it – voting for a person to do the job.
Involvement through the whole process, see review of power of information taskforce report, see stimuluswatch.org, egov20.wordpress.com
Lots of situations/spaces like Reboot to produce cultural transformation, empowerment, knowledge, etc. via action (doing), all ages, all regions, do not put attentionin infrastructure (politicians love this, but it’s old style)
Take the digital divide into account when designing the public sector, it literacy is a complex issue, it literacy should be learned from birth
Super initiativ, men når I gør det igen, tør spring ud over lysten til at strukturere debatten. Det skal vi nok klare.
How to enable government officials to be participants in communities?
Citizens are experts! I know more about building an internet start-up than anyone who has not done it. Please ask me.
Competition like Apps for Democracy in Belgium – received 35 prposals – INCA Award in Belgium www.inca-award.be egov20.wordpress.com
Wecollaborate.org - Pouline Middleton
Remember it's [not?] a question about structure or resources, but culture.
Do as little as possible – increase sensitivity to pressure from entrepreneurs.
Does the government have an official commitment to the delivery of access to an open, unfiltered internet? If not, why not di it just to be sure? (or is this just an American fear?)
- An American.
Does Denmark need a version of The Sunlight Foundation in the US?
Don't be afraid of losing control of data.
Deal with digital divide.
Don't think about it as a digital divide. See it as a digital stair (ladder).
Get outside our own mindset.
En laptop pr. child in school.
Enable. www.wecollaborate.org- From attitude to action.
Put the tool to work in contexts relevant to average people.
Don't compete with the market. Use it.
Keep the net free. No censorship EU!
Governments should build trust.
Gov .<<-->> small companies. Most stuff is done in small companies.
Small businesses innovative research grants.
Digital literacy education from birth.
OK to fail as government official.
Partner with universities (ITU, RUC, Sociology) to develop methodology for citizen-involvement! (and the media for doing so).
Don't be afraid to loose control.
Enable people.
Transparency in government.
To be it-creative you need a network of peers – you don't need government unless they can help you with funding the others.
Net neutrality.
A lot of Danish start ups are small but very talented... Don't make laws/regulations. Just hire/use services that works!
Open Data like US.
Word => action.
Broadband needs to be defined as access to the open internet.
Keep conversation alive between citizens and the policy implementors. Plan that in your visions.
Gov.: Keep the money.
“Sunlight foundation” in DK. Invite US people to share experiences.
Use tools as tools. Not as end.
Is so different Denmark to the rest of the EU?? So maybe we can develop on-going knowledge and try to implement adaptang locally 30-40%
Enable- people, dialogue, dig. literacy.
Government – small companies. Build something small in 6 months.
USA: Small Business Innovative Research. (SBIR).
Government Identified Products Funded.
Open the structure of law/regulation making – open and transparent.
Every citizen receives a grant for one week of creative work.