[epsi-coord] Fwd: proposal with regard to changing the ePSIplatform awards

[Ton Zijlstra]

Juan ok's trailblazers
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From: <Juan.PELEGRIN at ec.europa.eu>
Date: Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: proposal with regard to changing the ePSIplatform awards
To: ton.zijlstra at gmail.com
Cc: Malte.BEYER-KATZENBERGER at ec.europa.eu, Richard.Swetenham at ec.europa.eu


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Ton,

ok go ahead and see how it develops, but the impact should be for the PSI
community as a whole.

Start doing it quickly, publicize it and make plenty of noise, so it brings
plenty of candidates

In addition, as previously stated we would like a 3 month horizon skeleton
of activities you plan to undertake. Please refer to previous
correspondence.

Juan
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*From:* Ton Zijlstra [mailto:ton.zijlstra at gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, February 20, 2012 3:20 PM
*To:* PELEGRIN Juan (INFSO)
*Subject:* Re: proposal with regard to changing the ePSIplatform awards

 Dear Juan,

sorry for sending you so many e-mails today...

We are still moving ahead with the trailblazer idea, as described below.
Please do let us know if you have any feedback you'd like us to take into
account.

best regards,
Ton Zijlstra
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Interdependent Thoughts
Ton Zijlstra

ton at tonzijlstra.eu
+31-6-34489360

http://zylstra.org/blog
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Ton Zijlstra <ton.zijlstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Juan,
>
>  For our first major conference, we've tried to come up with a more
>
> creative alternative to the awards proposal from our offer, as we've noted
>
> a clear degree of 'award fatigue' and a growing indifference towards the
>
> general concept in the PSI community. In our first Technical Report we
> proposed to come up with an alternative.
>
> We wanted our alternative to retain the element of public recognition that
> an award would aim to provide (to
>
> ensure also that we still satisfy the terms of our offer), but also to
>
> make it more concrete, valuable and useful to the recipients. As a result,
>
> we came up with the concept of EPSI Trailblazers.
>
>
> The basic idea is that we choose a number of PSI reuse innovators
>
> ('trailblazers'), who've done something new and exciting in the last year
>
> or so. Similar to other open data competitions, criteria for selection
>
> would include:
>
>
> 1. Usefulness to the citizens, visitors and public sector
>
> 2. Potential for application to be useful for other governmental bodies,
>
> including in other Member States
>
> 3. Appeal of the application from a usability perspective
>
> 4. Inventive and original nature of the application
>
>
> Selected initiatives can include both well established applications and
>
> services, and new/start-up initiatives, proofs-of-concept and demos. These
>
> Trailblazers would be asked to give a five minute presentation at the EPSI
>
> conference to explain what they've done and why this is innovative.
>
>
> However - and this is where the concept is different from a simple award -
>
> they would also be asked to explain in a few minutes what they need to
>
> move their initiative forward, and to do even better things with it. This
>
> can be as straightforward as getting new seed funding, but may also
>
> involve more pragmatic things: help in liaising with other governments,
>
> finding new programmers/hackers to help build technical improvements,
>
> organizing brainstorming sessions to identify new application areas,
>
> identifying new relevant data sets, getting legal assistance, etc. The
>
> EPSI team would then try to help them achieve this objective by providing
>
> funding or material assistance (e.g. through the 'Ask an Expert'-service).
>
> The goal would thus not be to just hand out another award, but to actually
>
> help the recipients.
>
>
> We feel that this would be an innovative approach that would meet the
>
> requirements of the offer (providing recognition through the EPSI
>
> trailblazer label), but that would also have a much more pragmatic impact
>
> on the recipients: they can present their needs, and we can try to help
>
> them in building better services. Obviously, it has the clear additional
>
> benefit of being a good promotion of the positive impact of the EPSI
>
> platform and the EU's PSI initiatives in general, and would help us
>
> highlight the platform and its services further.
>
>
> We're looking forward to hear your feedback on this idea. We've started
> preparations for this, but will refrain from publicly mentioning, pending
> your feedback.
>
>
> best regards,
>
>
> Ton
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