Our innovation is a platform that takes data from different open data government sources, and proposes a way to use analysis, visualization, models, predictions for citizens, thereby linking data literacy processes with innovation.
Innovation Summary
Innovation Overview
There a huge opportunity to use open data around the globe, but nobody (people) uses it, or knows how to analyze the data and take better informed decisions. The innovation is a unique platform that mixes technology, data and models as ways to consume information and data. This should benefit the public sector, the citizen and companies that need better quality data. We think that our platform should let the user access data anywhere, regardless of their device. The purpose is moreover to enable citizens to ask the question with regards to the public situation, that can lead to the proposal of new policies.
Innovation Description
What Makes Your Project Innovative?
Worldwide platform to unified all open data available (public or private), modeled and pre-visualized to use via any mechanism like Computers, mobile phones, virtual reality devices, proposing explorative- and geo referencing, and predictive models.
Innovation Development
Collaborations & Partnerships
Government institutions: City of Cali, Congress of Colombia, Ministry of telecommunications, Secretaria de Salud de Cali
Citizens: Group of people validating the idea
Researchers: University Autonoma, University of Valle
Companies: Clip Consulting
Users, Stakeholders & Beneficiaries
Citizens: they have a better understanding of what is happening inside the public sector institutions and they have better civil control mechanisms for people they elected.
Government officials: Can better use open data that are enriched with other sources, and create better literacy of the public sector
Civil society organisations: they can use it for better control of the government.
Companies: can trust and leverage their decisions
Innovation Reflections
Results, Outcomes & Impacts
People using the platform start believing in the data, because they can see it in nice and understandable ways. Also they can start asking questions regarding the data and produce new insights. We hope that more people access the platform and that the citizens propose new analyses, comparisons, discussions and other interaction that the data allows. We have more that 200 data sources, 20 analytical applications, more that 200 graphics, videos, documents, and moments validating our idea.
Challenges and Failures
The big challenge is the data quality and the data literacy of producers and consumers of data. We see that this type of innovation requires more support and government investment so we can grow the innovation for the citizen.
Conditions for Success
We need resources to improve the platform. We need more entities (public sector), using and connecting the platform directly to their data sources. We need financial resources to hire people for the development and deployment of the solution. We need to collaborate with private companies so they can build trust in the solution.
Replication
Other companies (entrepreneurs), are trying to develop similar products (more focused). We think that we can provide a unique model for all the people that want to use, search, create, model new ways of see and consume data,
Lessons Learned
We are glad to share all the experience, histories, the thing we should do, and pitfalls to avoid.
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Date Published:
22 May 2017