communities and innovation jeanne holm, data.gov pmo [email protected]@jpl.nasa.gov...
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Opportunities for Connecting to Citizens Through Data.gov
• Agencies can help to drive innovation throughout their constituency by– Create an app for your agency’s data– Have a visiting intern or summer faculty?• Have them create a lesson plan, video, or activity
around agency data• Integrate with existing educational plans or goals
– Sponsor a challenge for developers around agency data
– Participate in or lead a community on Data.gov
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What is a Community?
• A Data.gov community is an online space that people can have discussions, highlight data and apps, and determine the needs and direction for the data in that area
• Examples– Open data: http://www.data.gov/communities/
opendata – Semantic web: http://www.data.gov/semantic – Restore the Gulf: http://www.data.gov/restorethegulf – Health http://health.data.gov
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Community Sites
Community Q3 Q4Agency points of contact ✓OECD (State) ✓Human Rights (State) ✓Developers (GSA) ✓Open data research ✓Climate (DOI) ✓Education (Education) ✓Energy (OSTP) ✓Marine and coastal (OSTP) ✓Foreign trade products (Commerce) ✓Statistics (USDA) ✓Food (Developers) ✓Geospatial (EPA) ✓Earth Science (EPA/NASA) ✓Regulatory (NRC) ✓America@Work (Navy/ONR) ✓History (NARA) ✓Women’s Economic Development (State) ✓Innovation (State) ✓Financial and Consumer Data (Treasury)April 25, 2011
Live Communities• Open Data• Semantic Web• Health• Law• Restore the Gulf
What Can People Do?
• Browse and search for government data and apps
• Rate and rank datasets and apps• Join one or more communities• Engage in forum discussions in communities
or around a specific dataset• Comment on blog posts• Communicate and coordinate with social
media
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How Does a Community Start?
• Vision—what will the community connection and collaboration look like in the future
• Leaders—who will help to lead the community (a person or core group)
• Participants—who will be part of the community• Outcome—what are the expected outcomes, metrics, and
measurements that will show success• Functionality—what types of activities will be conducted on
the site (forums, blogs, wikis, ranking, rating, etc.)• Content• Interactivity—what ways will the community interact with
the leaders, with each other, and with the public
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Questions?
• How would you like to be involved in the POC Community?
• Is there a community you are interested in leading or contributing to?
• Are we missing a community that would help to support your goals?
• Help to engage the power of your network to drive innovation in your community space!
– [email protected] @JeanneHolm• 818-434-5037
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