thinkpublic We believe in a collaborative approach to designing things, including service, products and communications. We have 9 years of experience using design to help public-facing organisations to better serve their customers whilst tackling big social challenges. What we bring Our experience, insights and hands on approach to working with the public and the communities to tackle big social challengesOur unique co-design approach – involving employees and customers in the design and launch of initiatives to ensure their practical and cultural fit and ongoing successOpportunity spotting – identifying the connections and partnerships that are right for your business and the communities you serve where we come from thinkpublic was founded in 2004 by Deborah Szebeko.
Can Telcos Unlock the Value of their Consumer Data? Summary: telcos have a significant market opportunity to act as custodians of 'digital personas', giving consumers the power to exploit their own data. This is an extract from a special 100 page report containing expert contributions and detailed analysis on privacy issues, legal and regulatory frameworks, technological solutions, adjacent competition, and including ‘best and next practice’ and scenario analysis, from the 1st Telco 2.0 International Summit on Consumer Data and Privacy. The richness of the consumer data that flows through telco networks is far greater than anything Google has. Telco 2.0 has analysed a number of opportunities for telcos to develop new 'two-sided' or 'platform' business models that support B2B and B2C processes, and has set out the general theory and strategic approach in the Two-Sided Telecoms Market Opportunity Strategy Report. The Challenges of the 'Consumer Data Explosion' Source: Telco 2.0 - Start of Report Extract - (NB. Need for a new business model
SILK: Social Innovation Lab Kent SILK is a small team based within Kent County Council that was set up in 2007 to ‘do policy differently’. Over the past 4 years we have been doing projects which have demonstrated the benefits of working in a different way and have developed a Methodology and Toolkit which provide a structure for the way we work. We believe that the best solutions come from the people who are closest to the issue; this could be service users, residents or frontline staff. We go much further than community consultation and we believe that people should be actively involved in the design of services that they are going to use or deliver. We're really pleased that SILK has been featured in Parsons Innovation Constellation. Each project will fall into one of three diamonds: Strategic / Policy, Service Re-design, or Creating Sustainable Communities: Once the type of project has been identified it will follow four phases: Initiate | Create | Test | Define as shown in our Project Planner:
MyData : renverser la relation consommateur, concrètement Par Daniel Kaplan le 20/09/11 | 14 commentaires | 5,961 lectures | Impression En 2010, dans l’ouvrage Informatique, Libertés, Identités, nous posions la question : “Que pourrais-je accomplir, moi, si je disposais, sous une forme réellement exploitable, des informations sur mes trajets et mes communications des années passées ? Pas seulement pour contrôler ce que d’autres en font, mais pour les utiliser à mes propres fins ?” Début 2011, en présentant les résultats de l’expédition de la Fing sur la Confiance numérique, nous allions plus loin : “A terme, la règle doit être simple : si vous savez quelque chose sur moi, je dois posséder la même information et pouvoir l’exploiter.” Le 13 avril 2011, le gouvernement britannique a transformé ce qui n’était encore qu’une perspective hétérodoxe, fragilement appuyée sur un projet de recherche américain et une petite communauté d’innovateurs, en un programme d’ampleur nationale : MyData. “Consumer Empowerment” : nous l’avions rêvé, ils le font
Open-source governance Open-source governance is a political philosophy which advocates the application of the philosophies of the open source and open content movements to democratic principles in order to enable any interested citizen to add to the creation of policy, as with a wiki document. Legislation is democratically opened to the general citizenry, employing their collective wisdom to benefit the decision-making process and improve democracy.[1] Theories on how to constrain, limit or enable this participation vary however as much as any other political philosophy or ideology. Accordingly there is no one dominant theory of how to go about authoring legislation with this approach. There are a wide array of projects and movements which are working on building open-source governance systems.[2] Applications of the principles[edit] In practice, several applications have evolved and been used by actual democratic institutions in the developed world:[3] Common and simultaneous policy[edit] History[edit]
Ideal Government About MyPolice allows direct, open conversations between YOU and the police - your police. MyPolice is a neutral space where you can tell your story secure in the knowledge that the people who count will read it. So you'll know it will make a difference. You pay for your police service. Find out more about your local police ; who they are and what they do. Send feedback to the police from a neutral platform. Support other people's questions, experiences and stories, as well as share them. Rate your police experience and their performance. MyPolice also helps the police: To respond in a neutral space. By providing empathic data, to understand what the public needs and wants. Hold their own open, direct conversations with targeted audiences. Identify weaknesses and spot opportunities in the service their force delivers. **Please note**: Only stories from our pilot area in South Perthshire ( Tayside ) will receive a response from the police. What we do
Programming a direct-democracy About the Government Digital Service The Government Digital Service (GDS) is leading the digital transformation of government. GDS was established in response to Martha Lane Fox’s report, ‘Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution’ (download the PDF, 2.7MB), and is here to ensure the Government offers world-class digital products that meet people’s needs. GDS works in three core areas: transforming 25 high volume key exemplars from across government into digital servicesbuilding and maintaining the consolidated GOV.UK website – which brings government services together in one placechanging the way government procures IT services Our aim is to be the unequivocal owner of high quality user experience between people and government by being the architect and the engine room of government digital service provision. The Government Digital Strategy committed the government to ensuring all new or redesigned digital services meet this standard from April 2014.
Libre Culture: Meditations on Free Culture : David M. Berry and Giles Moss Government of, by, and for all the people Obietnice wyborcze 2011 Po 10 latach działania Koalicja uznała, że cel jakim było wyegzekwowanie od partii włączenia problemu walki z korupcją do programów oraz formułowania konkretnych i realistycznych obietnic został osiagnięty w zadawalajacym stopniu. Problemem pozostaje stopień i sposób ich realizacji. Przed wyborami 2011 roku zdecydowaliśmy się zmienić formułę na taką, która dawałaby większe szanse na mobilizowanie partii do lepszej ich realizacji. Zamiast dotychczasowych pytań o pomysły partii na ograniczenie korupcji postanowiliśmy przygotować ankietę z zestawem pytań dotyczacych problemów korupcji w wybranych sferach życia publicznego leżących w polu zainteresowań członków Koalicji. Monitoring zostanie ograniczony do partii rządzących. Koalicja wysłała we wrzesniu 2011 r. do 7 ogólnopolskich komitetów wyborczych ankietę z 10 pytaniami.
AlterNet AlterNet’s Mission AlterNet is an award-winning news magazine and online community that creates original journalism and amplifies the best of hundreds of other independent media sources. AlterNet’s aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and more. Since its inception in 1998, AlterNet.org has grown dramatically to keep pace with the public demand for independent news. We provide free online content to millions of readers, serving as a reliable filter, keeping our vast audience well-informed and engaged, helping them to navigate a culture of information overload and providing an alternative to the commercial media onslaught. Strong Content AlterNet publishes grassroots success stories and inspirational narratives alongside hard-hitting critiques of policies, investigative reports and expert analysis. Huge Readership and Reach Building a Strong Community and Influence on the Web
O'Reilly Open Books Project O'Reilly has published a number of Open Books--books with various forms of "open" copyright--over the years. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still needed the information it covered. But there's more to making Open Books available online than simply adopting an open license or giving up rights granted under copyright law. We're happy to have partnered with two innovative nonprofits, Creative Commons and the Internet Archive, to solve the licensing and digitizing challenges involved in bringing Open Books to readers. While the books listed here use various open licenses, since 2003 we've focused on using the licenses created by Creative Commons. Through its Open Library project, the Internet Archive is scanning and hosting PDF versions of our open books. Donate to Creative Commons and the Internet Archive: