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

[Jonathan Gray]

Thought this might be of interest here!


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Dear Sir/Madam,


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

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.

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.

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.

How to submit:

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.



Should you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me,


Kind regards,


Matthew Myerson



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