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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011 Local by Social - South West Edition Apps for Communities Rethinking apps and data

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking apps and data

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Context:@timdavies - researching uses of open data,and exploring open data & linked data uses

in practice. Empowering people to use data tomake a difference.

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Defining open data

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Defining open data

Accessible

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Defining open data

Accessible

Technically open

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Defining open data

Accessible

Technically open

Legally open

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Defining open data

Accessible

Technically open

Legally open

Socially open

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Data doesn’t just come from government

Image Credit: Melanie Chernoff http://bit.ly/fDahU6

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

So what about apps...

7 rethinks...

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

One of my favourite

visualisation tools...

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

One of my favourite

visualisation tools...

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

One of my favourite

visualisation tools...

Data doesn’t even have to stay digital

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers*

* Vital for data publishers to remember. But also useful for developers to remember - sometimes you don’t need to code.

One of my favourite

visualisation tools...

Data doesn’t even have to stay digital

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers

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Practical Participation - [email protected] | @timdavies | January 2011

Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers

Involves more

‘development’

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #1: Data is not just for developers

Involves more

‘development’

But more constraints?

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #2: Data does more than make apps

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #2: Data does more than make apps

Improves bids, proposals

& projects

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #2: Data does more than make apps

Improves bids, proposals

& projects

*And not everything makes good screen shots

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #2: Data does more than make apps

Improves bids, proposals

& projects

Impacts markets and procurement

*And not everything makes good screen shots

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #2: Data does more than make apps

Improves bids, proposals

& projects

Impacts markets and procurement

Removes information asymmetry

*And not everything makes good screen shots

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #2: Data does more than make apps

*One for the data providers again - but perhaps it also shows some other areas for ‘appifyication’.

Improves bids, proposals

& projects

Impacts markets and procurement

Removes information asymmetry

*And not everything makes good screen shots

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

What is an app?

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Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

What is an app?

...bringing together processes, data and information intended to facilitate some specific set of tasks...

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just online

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #3: Apps are not just onlineApps can be physical.

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #4: Apps are not just about utility

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #4: Apps are not just about utility

Asborometer

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #4: Apps are not just about utility

Asborometer Awesometer

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #4: Apps are not just about utility

Apps as “digital pamphleteering”

Asborometer Awesometer

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project

20% of the time

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project 20% of the project

20% of the time

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project 20% of the project

20% of the time 80% of the time

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project 20% of the project

20% of the time 80% of the time

AccessibilityAccuracy

Sustainability

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project 20% of the project

20% of the time 80% of the time

AccessibilityAccuracy

Sustainability

Accepting the challenge?

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #5: Hacks ‘route around’ problems;some problems need solving.

80% of the project 20% of the project

20% of the time 80% of the time

AccessibilityAccuracy

Sustainability

Accepting the challenge?

Re-negotiating expectations?

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

The classic view of Freecycle: “too many emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

Describe your item...

Pick expiry date

Not your profile? Switch users.

Wanted/Offered

Post it

Describe your item...

Pick expiry date

Not your profile? Switch users.

Wanted/Offered

Post it

The classic view of Freecycle: “too many emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

Offered - some cool item

This item matched your keyword search for 'cool'

I want it No thanks

Offered - some cool item

This item matched your keyword search for 'cool'

I want it No thanks

The classic view of Freecycle: “too many emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

People who want this item

1.2 miles away

location unknown

2.4 miles away

Give it to this person

Give it to this person

Give it to this person

People who want this item

1.2 miles away

location unknown

2.4 miles away

Give it to this person

Give it to this person

Give it to this person

The classic view of Freecycle: “too many emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

Surprisingly high bandwidth

...

Surprisingly high bandwidth

...

The classic view of Freecycle: “too many emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

How to set up an e-mail filterHow to set up an e-mail filterThe classic view of Freecycle: “too many

emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

It’s not just a data problem. And data isn’t always the answer. Consider about the organic social elements of the systems you are exploring.

How to set up an e-mail filterHow to set up an e-mail filterThe classic view of Freecycle: “too many

emails”.

So solve it with an app? Collect lots of structured meta-data, match people up, make

it all push button...

But is that the real solution?

What social elements does it remove? Couldn’t we just educate people to use

filters?

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

1. Build something you will find useful

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

1. Build something you will find usefulsocially useful

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

1. Build something you will find useful

2. Solve your problem with data

socially useful

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Rethinking #6: Understand how it’s broken before you try to fix it

1. Build something you will find useful

2. Solve your problem with data

socially useful

information, networks, skills & data

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Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

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Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

What are you cooking up?

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Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

What are you cooking up?

Hor d'oeuvres

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Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

What are you cooking up?

Hor d'oeuvres

Experimentingin the kitchen

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Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

What are you cooking up?

Hor d'oeuvres

Experimentingin the kitchen

Convenience food

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

Rethinking #7: It helps to think of working with data like cooking.

What are you cooking up?

Hor d'oeuvres

Experimentingin the kitchen

Convenience food

Gourmetbanquet

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How will you put data to work?

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Local by Social - South West EditionApps for Communities

How will you put data to work?

Data

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How will you put data to work?

Data

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How will you put data to work?

AppData

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How will you put data to work?

AppData

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How will you put data to work?

ImpactAppData

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How will you put data to work?

ImpactAppData

Impact

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How will you put data to work?

ImpactAppData

Impact

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How will you put data to work?

ImpactAppData

Impact ?

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