1. Open Innovation,
Crowdsourcing: new way of
city innovation
Katalin Gallyas
Open Innovation Policy Advisor-
@KatalinG

2. 1. Global CityTrends

3. This how we like to work

4. This is how cities are working

5. Tech Gap?
City
• Cities are more then ever
multilayered, challenged by
budget cuts, stagnation urban
construction projects
• Old procurement structures
(vendor lock)
• General risk averse
Citizens
• 24 hours connected
• Changing needs: craving for
immediate feed-back from city
• Want to leverage on the rapid
development of Internet tech
and social media

6. …cities are incredibly
challenged
• Are reaching their limits for finding new solutions,
generate new projects
• Citizens wants more transparency, innovation
• “Cognitive Surplus’ of the crowd to collaborate on
urban solutions is still untapped

7. Trends that will
transform city
governance ….

8. 1.City = Interface

9. 2. Platformism

10. 3. P2P markets

11. How can City Governance
address the tech gap, while
enhancing transparency and
fostering innovation?

12. • Open Innovation we can tackle some of the urban
challenges and shorten up innovation incubation time
• With Open DATA
• With Crowdsourcing
• With Urban Challenges
• With Crowdfunding
• With Social Innovation

14. http://digitaldublin.ie/openinnovation/

15. 2. Open Innovation
Ecosystem & Policy
Wheel

16. Open
Innovation
Urban Labs
Grassroot Innovation
Working with
challlenges,
incentives
Crowdsourcing
Hackathons-
Engaging App
Industry
Open Data
Program –
Release of Data
(API’s)
Activities
Working with
commons
Gov
Business
Crowdfunding

17. Amsterdam Open Innovation
Team • Local Enablers (ICT /
Economic Affairs)
• 5 employees, part time
involved
• Agile
• No structural local
resources allocated
• 3 years evolution
process (2010-1013)

18. Knowledge institutes
sdfDeveloper hubs
sdf
Accelerators
Innovation labs

19. 3. Demonstrator
Projects

20. Our Fellows
1. EU project:

21. Civic Apps
1. EU project:

22. www.openinnovatie.net
Crowdsourcing Platform in AMS: www.amsterdamopent.nl
2. EU project:

23. www.openinnovatie.net
Crowdsourcing Platform in AMS: www.amsterdamopent.nl
Open Data Platform
(SCAN)

24. Crowdsourcing Platform via www.opencities.net
EU Challenge

25. 4. How to crowdsource
policy?

26. Crowdsourcing

27. Crowdsourcing ingredients
Community
Platform, Tech
Political commitment for implementation
Incentives
Social Media
activation
Events
Mediation

28. Learning's so far
• Choose a politically less risky question
• Engage local leadership to commit on high level- kick off
• Use incentives that are tailor made to the target group
• As a government be not anonymous but use avatars, names
• Comment on each idea’s
• Reward the best contributors weekly
• Keep platform with social media activation active
• Mediate between crowds and problem owner
• Try to save up development costs of platforms by reuse of
existing codes

29. 5. How to make Open
Innovation policy
locally?

30. Policy Making Paradox
• Open Innovation is an emerging new policy area
with economic impact
• City governance is more risk-averse and there is a
need for proof of evidences/ business cases to lobby
and convince
• Local ownership creation for O.I is difficult because
it impacts more departments (ICT, Economy, Citizen
Services ) -> need for demonstrators

31. Amsterdam – City Lobby
with Code for America Fellow Joel Mahoney and Henk de
Jong , General Secretary of Amsterdam

32. Economic Relevance
• Open Innovation fuels the city innovation process
• Start Up Acceleration
• Working towards a Civic Apps Store/ Commons
• Access to the most innovative technological solutions and
civic apps
• Ecosystem of cities, app developers, innovation agencies
strong USP for investors
• Scalable solutions among cities (efficiency)
• Reusing instead of reinventing

33. The future
• Launching an Open Innovation Policy Doc’s
Repository for cities with best practices, business cases,
performance matrix
• Build a clear link with Digital Agenda
Link with Smart Cities and Communities Stakholders
Group, and City Protocol
• Network of Civic Innovators on Civic Commons

34. The future

35. The future

36. Conclusion
• Open Innovation should be integrated city governance
• EU projects as bottom up demonstrators for local
top down policy making
• Governments are responsible for O.I (big data owner,
public service provider, purchaser)
• Biggest challenge: Open Innovation embedding in regular
governance and share these learning's among cities

37. Thank you!
Commons4EU, Open Cities and
City SDK in Amsterdam
Katalin Gallyas
gallyas@ez.amsterdam.nl