[open-government] Fwd: Living Labs Global Award 2011 - San Francisco seeks solution for Next Generation of Government

Wed Feb 23 01:04:18 UTC 2011

hi all

one suggestion i'd offer is:

visualizing expenditures and other data in a network graph where
relationships are encoded.

i think an altered Cytoscape Web code could power this type of dashboard /
survey map. Cytoscape Web is open source and fully alterable.
http://cytoscapeweb.cytoscape.org/

the innovation is:
encoding information about the hierarchy of things in San Francisco in a
powerful and re-usable format (Network File) while concurrently visualizing
data, i.e. expenditures, revenue, etc.

many visualizations/learning resources don't give the viewer something to
take away. this service gives the viewer 3 types of network files and 3
types of image files (SVG, PNG, PDF).

thoughts?

Morgen

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Thought this might be of interest here!
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> Dear Sir/Madam,
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> I am contacting you to invite The Open Knowledge Foundation to
> participate in the Living Labs Global Award 2011
> http://www.livinglabs-global.com/Award-About.aspx we are organizing
> together with the City of Stockholm as we think your company has very
> interesting ideas and solutions for the Award.
>
> The City of San Francisco hereby invites you to submit your solutions
> to its challenge “Creating the Next Generation of Government” by
> February 28th 2011, as announced in the Living Labs Global Award 2011.
> http://www.livinglabs-global.com/Award-Categories-San-Francisco.aspx
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> San Francisco seeks solutions that make best use of the city’s newly
> opened infrastructures and data and combine these with other technical
> and service innovations to create better public services with
> decreasing budgets, involving more stakeholders and citizens in the
> process.
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> As a Winner of the challenge you would be invited to pilot the
> solution in San Francisco, with full support by all local stakeholders
> to evaluate the solution before a full-scale roll-out.
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> Like many jurisdictions in America, the City and County of San
> Francisco faces a daunting challenge – how to maintain or improve the
> delivery of services to constituents while continuing to cut costs as
> revenues decrease. Given successive years of experience, the only way
> to meet this often times conflicting mandate is to rethink what
> services the City delivers, how it delivers them, and how we measure
> the effectiveness. The City must transform government through
> innovation.
>
> ‘All of this points to a new type, or next generation government’ as
> Chris Vein, CIO of San Francisco and open data pioneer puts it in his
> invitation to organisations and companies to come forward from around
> the world to Showcase and pilot their solutions.
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> How to submit:
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> Submissions follow the format of the Living Labs Global Showcase and
> can be submitted for free until the 28th of February 2011. A shortlist
> of the top 40 Showcases will be presented by the international juries
> on March 21st 2011. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony on
> May 12th 2011 at the Stockholm Summit on Service Innovation in Cities.
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> Kind regards,
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