S Future of Real-Time. Future of Real-Time: Data Democracy. City administrations, institutions, and companies are publicly sharing data generated within their systems to add new levels of transparency and accountability. Access to this information not only strengthens civic engagement, but establishes a collaborative agenda at all levels of government that empowers citizens through greater access and agency. Implications Citizens are given the access and agency to engage with the data that specifically influences them.Communities are empowered to leverage local data and build bespoke services.Increased transparency and accountability.Transparency facilitates confidence.
Turns citizens/consumers into collaborators, uncovering new perspectives and potential applications not previously considered.Open data, and open source technology, provide the infrastructure backbone necessary to run a scalable, global and yet, ultimately localized system. Supporting Examples for Data Democracy Empowering Developing Countries With Their Own Data www.infochimps.com. Future of Real-Time: See Something, Text Something.
Systems that track change can leverage power of people. Crowd-sourced services that allow people to report on the situation around them are ensuring communities’ collective well-being by rapidly documenting potentially harmful incidents. Often using mobile phone technology, these information monitoring systems not only provide real-time, location specific data, but also boost civic engagement by establishing direct channels of communication from the ground up. Implications • Promotes civic engagement by lowering barrier of entry, allowing individual voices to be heard. • Mobile technology gives a voice to disenfranchised or marginalized groups. • Systems can be tailored to the needs of those specifically affected by them. • Real-time systems provide the ability to actively respond to and mitigate problems.
Supporting Examples for See Something, Text Something Tracking Sexual Harassment HarassMap is a system in Egypt for reporting sexual harass- ment via SMS. Public Fruit Mapping. Future of Real-Time: Personal Census. Growing access to mobile technology around the world now enables an unprecedented monitoring of an individual’s current state of being. Mobile phones and tablet PCs can be directed to collect personal data, giving individuals deeper levels of insight into their habits and behaviors. Through a variety of platforms, people can actively collect and measure information about what they’re doing, their health, and even their mood. They can also share this information anonymously with a larger network so that it can be analyzed at a local or even national level—allowing organizations to monitor relative health of communities and respond to their changing needs. Implications • Citizens can understand their well-being through the collection and interpretation of personal data. • Communities can leverage data and analysis to receive deep levels of insight about the collective habits and behaviors of peers. • People can be incentivized to self-monitor through comparison, or benchmarking.
Future Of Real-Time: Human Sensor Networks. Future of Real-Time: Networking Nature. Monitoring change in nature can provide insights into both environmental and human change. By connecting the natural world to the internet, communities and organizations are better able to monitor and respond to nature’s ebb and flow in real-time. Implications Wired plants and crops can report on their health and indicate the correct time to harvest.Audio sensing can detect minor changes in the environment to warn of avalanches, mudslides or earthquakes.Citizens become engaged in creating two-way data flows; use information to better understand their immediate surroundings.Communities reconnect with nature and understand their impact better.Heightened awareness of natural cycles increases ability to determine long and short term trends.Real-time weather information enables businesses to work with nature and minimize inefficiencies.Better ablility to monitor invasive species and deal with cross border issues.Natural sensors can be used to increase agricultural yields. www.talking-tree.com.
Future Of Real-Time: Instant Mapping. Instant mapping Maps are a universal tool that have the ability to convey significant quantities of information, often transcending language and cultural barriers. This intuitive nature has made maps the medium of preference for creating a shared visual experience. A growing number of open source tools and lo-fi solutions offer local communities the ability to rapidly generate maps and provide real-time instructions for navigating uncharted or changing landscapes.
This type of information becomes invaluable for individuals during times of crisis as they try to gain insights into their own communities. Implications Maps contain a universal language. Lo-fi Solution For Aerial Mapping Grassroots Mapping is a series of participatory mapping projects focused on communities involved in land disputes. The resulting images are geotagged and stitched into maps which are 100x higher resolution that those offered by Google and available at an extremely low cost.
Open Source Cartography. S Future of Real-Time.