Where is public participation in local development heading ... · memes? E. Trend Two. 22 Augmented...

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Where is public participation in local development heading tomorrow?

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What is This?

What is This

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What is This?

5Three Sets of:

Trends Questions Examples

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Super Computer

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In your Pocket

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Used for…

Cat Videos Pokemon Food Pics

10It’s the end of the world….

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Seeds of FuturePractice

Three key trends

Machine Learning

Augmented Reality & Gamification

User Generated

Content

Trend One

User Generated Content

Past

Passive CitizensMass Broadcasting.

Now

User Generated Content Unwillingness to let

go of control…

Next

Users rate, cluster & make sense of content

Government Curates – rather than creates…

The role of government will be to provide the safe space for citizens to create, cluster and rate ideas

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Your Reykjavik Iceland

Youth Lead the ChangeUSA

Crowdsourced Laws Finland

Can I create, cluster &rate content for you?

Do you know where and when you NEED to control content?

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Do you build on viral trends & memes?

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Trend Two

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Augmented Reality and Gamification

Past

Participation is serious business

“Cyberspace”.

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Online everyday Increasing Citizen expectations

Next

“Serious Fun”Blending Online & Physical

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There will not be a clear boundary between fun and engagement, or between the virtual and the physical.

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Minecraft in KiberaKenya

Galaxy ZooWorldwide

FramtidskikarenSweden

Do you work with as many types of motivations as

possible?

Do you combine the best of

online & face to face in one

setting?

How about setting up a

Poke-lure at your next meeting?

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Trend Three

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Machine Learning

Past

Participation ‘by hand’

“Dumb Machines”.

Now

Computer supported translation, transcription & analysis Increasingly complex

Participation challenges

Next

Humans analyse & create meaning Computer do ‘low

value’ tasks

Machines will help us make sense of mass data, events will be transcribed and translated in real time & we will invite participants with precision

Are you aware how computers

can help you manage, analyse

and automateparticipation?

Are you using machine

translation to enable

participation across groups?

Are you using facebook ads

to targetspecific groups?

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Final Thoughts

37False Duality - 1

Bottom UpTop Down

38False Duality - 2

CyberspacePhysicalSpace

39False Duality - 3

Machine Learning Human

Learning

40What’s missing?

Gamification

Machine Learning

User Content

Culture

41What Could This Be?

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