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Government as a Social Machine

Government as a Social Machine. Policy Visualisation Network 12th February, 2014. The World Wide Web. The largest “information construct” in human history. Web Science. The Theory and Practice of “social machines”

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Government as a Social Machine

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  1. Government as a Social Machine Policy VisualisationNetwork 12th February, 2014

  2. The World Wide Web The largest “information construct” in human history

  3. Web Science The Theory and Practice of “social machines” An emerging discipline which aims to understand the deeper structure of the social Web and how people are using it, not only now, but potentially in the future

  4. Tim Berners Lee Real life is, and must be, full of all kinds of social constraint – the very processes from which society arises. Computers can help if we use them to create abstract social machines on the Web: processes in which the people do the creative work and the machine does the administration. … The stage is set for an evolutionary growth of new social engines

  5. The rise of the Social Machine

  6. Characteristics of the social machine • problems are beginning to be solved by very large scale human participation via the Web; • there is access to, or the ability to generate, large amounts of relevant data using open data standards; • there is increasing confidence in the quality of the data; and • human-computer interfaces are becoming far more intuitive and seamless.

  7. Early social machines

  8. “Government is, at bottom, a mechanism for collective action. Government 2.0 is the use of technology … to better solve collective problems at a city, state, national, and international level.” Tim O’Reilly

  9. Government … from rowing • Government (Leanne Fry, FWO)

  10. To steering (Leanne Fry, FWO)

  11. Social Machine

  12. http://www.micromappers.com/

  13. www.eq.org.nz

  14. Crime mapping

  15. Smart cities

  16. Community “businesses”

  17. The social machine “ecosystem” Open Data Portals e-Government Web Services Government citizen fora community engagement services Others

  18. Internet of Everything

  19. Web Observatory • Brings together Web of Data and Big Data • Is about sharing • Web 2.0: Sharing content • Web of Data: Sharing applications • Web Observatory: Sharing analytics

  20. Open Data Cloud Internet Archive Social Media Open Web Analytics Repositories with Authorised Access e-Science Infrastructures Web of Observatories Harmonisation with Other Observatories Social Innovation Interdisciplinarye-Science Catalogues of Analytic and Visualisation Tools Open Standards Novel Analysis and Visualisation Methods Semantic Catalogues Harvesting and Archival Harmonised Access

  21. “Government as a Social Machine” Research Questions: • How does Government as a "social machine” change the way that it interacts with citizens? • What key challenges are emerging as a result of this perspective? • How are Government agencies addressing these challenges?

  22. Observations: Twitter Classification of User Types in Twitter Rate and Size of Content Diffusion

  23. Observatory in action • Chinese “Salt-crisis” - from humour

  24. Observations: Wikipedia Wikipedia Access Logs (English and Chinese Articles) Correlation of Wiki EN and CN

  25. Early thoughts • The dynamic of “power” had changed • Governments are moving towards being much more open and transparent • Citizens are using social networks to create new businesses serving community needs • Privacy is now front and centre …

  26. Implications …

  27. Thank you anni@intersticia.com +61 413 626 737

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