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Citizen Engagement & Open Innovation Amsterdam

Athens, 3rd Dec 2013

Katalin GallyasOpen Innovation Policy

Advisor@KatalinG

The dynamics of the cities we are living ...

1. City as an interface

2. Platforms- We participate… !

3. P2P Markets –We share …

How city governance can catch up with these trends?

Individual need to work free, connected, fast

Institutional answer…

Tech gap ?

Connected24 hours

City• Local governance is decentralized,

‘silo’ culture. Incredibly tough to introduce cross-sectoring theme’s

• Challenged by budget cuts.• Generally risk-averse.

• Cities are less adoptive with new tech

• Citizens

• 24 hours connected, action-minded• Craving for immediate feed-back

from city.

• They do care about the living, reshaping the city

Citizens

Cities need their citizens and vice versa…

An encounter between digital pioneers and an overcautious mammoth…

Different velocities - Citizens & their city…..

>>Open innovation offers a way to cities to create a more participatory governmentand makes the best use of novel ICT solutions while enhancing the creativity of the city based entrepreneurs, hackers, civic innovators.

>>>Enabling a modern 21st century civil services

Open Innovation brought us back to the citizens

• Citizen Engaging Platforms• Smart Toolkits (air pollution) • Community Currencies• Integrated part of Amsterdam Smart Cities

PPP- > Smart Citizens Program

Smart Citizen Engagement

Open Innovation Ecosystem Beyond City Governance

Innovation Intermediaries

ICT tools,Funding, community

Circulation – the need for counterpart to feel strong

Open Innovation Fuel projects

1. EU Project: Code for Europe

Code for Europe

2. EU project: Open Cities

Local Crowdsourcing challenges

• 400 ideas in 1.5

year• 240 registered

city ‘innovator’• Active policy

maker representation

High political representation: 206 ideas

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EU Challenge• Challenge Period: Sept 2013- Nov 15 2013

EU Challenge

EU Challenge• Challenge Period: Sept 2013- Nov 15 2013

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Tech driven + Off Line meet ups

-Supply driven -Citizen driven real time meet ups

Dissemination: PICNIC• 250 SME’s, policy

makers, large scale dissemination

Catch Up. Public Crowdsourcing market

…rapidly growing initiatives in public sector

…closed-ended platform generates mass of 90.000 users

Future: crowdsourcing + crowdfunding

Open Data Platform with crowdsourcing

Proud…• 3 hackathons (apps for

Amsterdam)• 68 city apps• 22 workshops for civil

servants• 1 person responsible for data

collection • 1 strong integral Open Data

vison (AEB)

Open Innovation Evolution in Amsterdam

• An established Civic Innovator, hacker network (2.600 members)

• OPEN DATA release & business incubation• 300 datasets open in 2013• 2010 – 0 eur budget• 2013 – 1,5 M EUR budget • Amsterdam local crowdsourcing portal • Rich network of EU cities, SME’s, innovation agencies that help

local lobby• 6 crowdsourced city challenges, 3 ICT fellows, a robust ICT back

end architecture from citySDK

• Transparency, participatory budgeting• Start Up business Acceleration.• Working towards a Civic Apps Store/ Marketplace

(Europe Commons).• Ecosystem of cities, app developers, innovation agencies

strong USP for investors.

Economic relevance op Open Innovation

• Commit from policy level• Reward participation• Save money on interface interoperability• Power of Social Media• Power of Ecosystem• Look for EU collaborations (FI-PPP, Horizon 2020, ENOLL, Eurocities)• Create local hero’s for Civic engagement(policy level)

Conclusions Citizen Engagement

Change By Us Localization

• Meet A. Townsend & • Dan Hill (iFabrica) – Manifest for Smart Citizens

Stay Inspired

Thank you! Katalin Gallyas

gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl @katalinG