innovation data center presentation: innovation through open data
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Beth Beck, NASA Open Innovation Program ManagerNASA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer
Data Innovation Center Talk: June 24, 2015
Innovation through Open Data
Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps = NASA’s Innovation Incubator
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Women in Data• Data Bootcamp• Datanauts• Data Fellows
Innovation Acceleration• Acceleration Toolkit• Accelerator Pilots:
• Dakar• Nairobi• Guatamala
Innovation Pipeline• Infuse citizen-generated innovative
thinking back into NASA’s missions and processes
• Leveraging Global Best Use of Data NYSpaceTag solution for NASA Data
Data Exploration• Open.NASA.gov• Data.NASA.gov• Code.NASA.gov• API.NASA.gov• Open Source
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation through Open Data
NASA’s open data convenes global citizensthrough Space Apps to solve mission-relevant challenges.
Space Apps teaches us what we do well and where we need to add, refine, or upgrade capabilities and capacity.
Space Apps is NASA’s incubator innovation program to fulfill federal open data mandates to spur innovation.
International Space Apps Challenge
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Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
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Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015 Participants: Self-Identified Skills
Developer/Software: 5449Designer/Artist: 1978Game Design: 859Hardware: 1884Maker: 1367Story Teller: 1236Student: 7237Subject Matter Expert: 844Entrepreneur: 1940Other: 2156
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015: Winners
Best Use of Data: NY Space Tag from New York City, New York offers a data tagging system that extracts keywords and core concepts to more easily query NASA data.
Best Use of Hardware: Valkyrie from Sofia, Bulgaria is a “smart” glove and mobile device that enables gesture and voice recognition to ease automation tasks for work or play.
Best Mission Concept: ArachnoBeeA from Limassol, Cyprus designed a spider-bee drone for small cargo transport with a grab and capture capability and the ability to dock and release.
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015: Winners
Galactic Impact: CROPP from Rome, Italy is a bottle-bot with sensors to gather in-situ data applied to optical and radar satellite imaging to provide real-time crop risk assessment.
Most Inspirational: Tracking/ Sensing Phone-bot from Kathmandu, Nepal enables users to explore and extract data from nearby objects using a mobile robot platform with smartphone sensors.
People’s Choice Award: NatEv Explorer from Pristina, Kosovo uses real-time earth observation data to populate an interactive 3D globe for crowdsourced tagging and discovery of potential natural hazards and threats.
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Women in Data
Women in Data
Women in Data•Data Bootcamp•Datanauts•Data Fellows
Space Apps: NASA Innovation Incubator
Innovation through Open DataWomen in Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
@SpaceApps Social media demographics
Fact: More men than women participate in Space Apps.Yet ratio of girls to boys at Space Apps student events is high.
WHY?
Innovation through Open DataWomen in Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
“Men engage in their spare time.Women have to MAKE TIME.”Vanessa Hurst, Founder and CEO, Code Montage
Innovation through Open Data
New concepts to signal NASA = safe space!#1 Data Bootcamp: Space Apps pre-event to introduce code/robotics concepts [signals safety, welcome, and belonging]#2 Datanaut Corps: Female founding class [signals safety, belonging]#3 Data Fellows: Female data scientists for 6 month assignments [signals safety, belonging]
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Space Apps Cairo
Women in Data
Innovation through Open Data#1 Data Bootcamp
Inaugural event @ Space Apps NYC: Community leaders shared intro content on coding, making, dataset retrieval/manipulation, problem solving, and storytelling.
• 70 attended, 75% women, 30% under 21, 30% under 35.• Event live-streamed, babysitting services on site.
Lagos, Nigeria and Cairo, Egypt also hosted live bootcamps.Rome and San Salvador convened virtual live-streamed events.
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation through Open DataData Bootcamp
. NYC Data Bootcampers participated in Space Apps hackathon – formed teams, collaborated, and won awards.
Bootcampers in front row at Space Apps NYC.
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Women in Data
Innovation through Open Data#2 NASA Datanauts: all female founding class (4 PIFS!)
• Signals a safe space for women to engage with us and innovate around NASA data and tools; and
• Brings in leaders in the field help us learn how to speak their language and engage others in their community around NASA’s data and tools.
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Women in Data
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Women in Data
Datanauts making news…
Innovation through Open Data#3 Data Fellows Program Concept:• Recruit strong candidates to meet complex data requirements. Attract data science
and engineering expertise for mission support. • Leverage existing partnerships with academia, non-profits, industry.
Competitive program with criteria for leadership and experience . • 6-12 month tours to focus on addressing critical data challenges.
Space Apps Cleveland
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Women in Data
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Naming “Women in Data” as a focussparked increased participation at Space Apps 2015
Space Apps 2015 Dhaka, Bangladesh
Space Apps 2015: Women in Data
Women in Data
Innovation through Open DataWomen in Data: Space Apps 2015 stats
• 1 in 4 participants are women• 47% of 60 top global award finalists had one or more women on
the project team• Largest event (Cairo) led by women• 49% of NYC Mainstage participants were women
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Space Apps 2015 NYC – Data Bootcampers
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Space Apps Cotonou
Women in Data
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Acceleration
Innovation Acceleration•Acceleration Toolkit•Accelerator Pilots:•Dakar•Nairobi•Guatemala
Space Apps: NASA Innovation Incubator
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Acceleration: Toolkit
Space Apps Progress
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Acceleration: Toolkit
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps WeekendBeth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program Manager
Office of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Acceleration2015 Pilots: Dakar + Guatemala + Nairobi
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Space Apps Round Rock
Space Apps Cairo
Innovation Acceleration
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Pipeline
Innovation Pipeline• Infuse citizen-generated
innovative thinking back into NASA’s missions and processes
• Leveraging Global Best Use of Data NYSpaceTag solution for NASA Data
Space Apps: NASA Innovation Incubator
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Pipeline
Post-Space Apps analysis:• Open Innovation team works with Space Apps
Challenge Owners to review EVERY project to determine next steps.
• Challenge owners who see value and express interest in moving forward are connected with project team members.
• Our team tracks progress.
Issues: • Space Apps solutions are rarely fully-baked
after a weekend hackathon. • Merging open source code from multiple
projects to create a NASA app is difficult.• Culture inside organizations isn’t always open.
Infuse citizen-generated innovative thinking into NASA missions/ processes.
NASA Subject Matter experts identified a dozen Space Apps 2015 projects as potential candidates for further consideration within NASA missions.
The process to infuse new thinking back into NASA takes time.
Best Use of Data: NYSpaceTag
Innovation through Open Data
Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Innovation Pipeline
Global Best Use of Data Award Winning Team NYSpaceTag with NASA’s Open Innovation Team
NASA is collaborating with NYSpaceTag Global Winner for use within Open Data.
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Data Exploration
Data Exploration• Open.NASA.gov• Data.NASA.gov• Code.NASA.gov• API.NASA.gov• Open Source
Space Apps: NASA Innovation Incubator
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Data ExplorationOpen.NASA.gov Redesign
DRAFT
DRAFT
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Data ExplorationData.NASA.gov Reboot
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Data ExplorationCode.NASA.gov
Innovation through Open Data
Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer
Data ExplorationAPI.NASA.gov