Innovation Tag: Citizen Engagement

Ireland’s Open Data Initiative (ODI) is a key element of the government’s Public Service Reform activities. It aims to increase transparency, stimulate new business, build trust in Government and improve the lives of citizens by delivering better services. The ODI involves significant engagement with citizens, business, the data community, researchers and public bodies. Over 8700 datasets from 100 publishers are available on the ODI Portal which provides free access to data via a central…

The Digital Mobile Key is the Portuguese mobile eID solution, for secure authentication in public & private websites. Instead of relying on different usernames/passwords for each entity, or using their eID Card, citizens now use the Digital Mobile Key, made of a single 4 digits PIN + an OTP(by SMS, email or messaging platform), or a push notification (Digital Mobile Key app) In addition to authentication, Digital Mobile Key also allows digital signatures, both in a personal or a professional…

Asan Imza is the world’s fastest growing national digital identity in the form of Mobile-ID, which is secure, trusted and issued by the government of Azerbaijan. Based on PKI (a public key infrastructure) it is an irreplaceable tool empowering across all sectors, from public to private, including financial institutions and Mobile Network Operators, allowing to digitally verify your identity and create signatures equal to handwritten counterparts, regulated by law.

The city of Louisville has one of the highest asthma rates in the U.S. AIR Louisville was a community program that used smart connected inhalers to help improve the asthma problem in Louisville. AIR Louisville enrolled 1,147 citizens of Louisville to improve asthma for everyone. Citizens benefited by receiving personalized care. Louisville Metro benefited from crowdsourced, hyperlocal data of air quality challenges our residents face.

The Michigan Economic Development Corp (MEDC) teamed up with private partner Patronicity to launch a first of its kind crowd-granting program to help create vibrant communities throughout Michigan. The crowdgranting model streamlines the granting process, increases community engagement and results in more sustainable projects that better serve and impact the communities they are within. Of the 170 completed projects, 165 of them exceeded their crowdfunding goal at a ratio of total private…

Malaysia established the country’s first facilitation, monitoring and evaluation platform, the 1DANA portal. It places a particular emphasis on Research and Development, commercialisation and innovation output. This works aligns with Vision 2020 and beyond political agenda.

The Memeza Home Community Alarm is a cost-effective public alarm system designed for low-income communities, that leverages advanced communication technologies for rapid response to incidents. It aims to bridge the gap between communities vulnerable to crime, and the police services that serve them.

The Regione Emilia-Romagna has, since 2014, developed a pilot strategy to promote and coordinate the use of social media by local police departments. Keeping in touch with citizens is the core business of every local police, but today, traditional communication tools and skills are not enough to respond to citizens' needs and demands. As such, we established a network of people inside local police departments to share expertise in the area of social media.

The Michigan Economic Development Corp (MEDC) teamed up with private partner Patronicity to launch a first of its kind crowd-granting program to help create vibrant communities throughout Michigan. The program revolutionizes the granting process, in part, by making the community the final review committee. If the project garners enough community support through crowdfunding, it will receive a matching grant. With crowdfunding success rates across the industry at around 5-10% for projects…

Rede Bem Cuidar (Well Caring Network) is a network of Local Health Units, each acting as a multi-generational social hub. We developed the project to improve the quality of public health services offered to the city of Pelotas’ citizens, establishing community participation as a precondition for unfolding the project. The resulting renovations are designed to improve healthcare facilities and services, support employee well-being and create much-needed community space.