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Idee Voor Je Buurt featured in the Amsterdam Smart City newsletter!
Today Idee Voor Je Buurt, developed by Vierenvijftig during Code for Europe 2014 in Amsterdam has been featured on Amsterdam Smart City newsletter!
Read the article here!
Idee voor je buurt is a place to put your ideas into action by creating projects and building teams to make your city a better place to live.
Amazing roster of people at today's meeting in bringing crowdsourcing platform for Amsterdam to life. @maggix @ohyoonkwn
Finding stakeholders and solution owners
Finding stakeholders and solution owners
During Code for Europe 2013 we learned the importance of commitment from stakeholders and the need of owners of the solutions that we developed.
Among the three apps developed during the 2013 Fellowship, Samenspel resulted to be the one that managed to be carried on, receiving additional funding and support by its adopters.
There’s no “secret ingredient”: we’ve chosen to work closely with the (future) end-users of the application. During development processes we showed them the result of the design to make sure that it was what they were looking for. This was made possible by the commitment of the people in the District West in Amsterdam, who became the owners for the project and cared for its development and maintenance.
On the 3rd of June Code for Europe hosted a meeting to find adopters of the Civic Engagement platform we are working on at De Waag in Amsterdam. This meeting is the follow-up of the previous workshop we held a couple of weeks before (on the 21st of May) where we laid the basis and gathered use cases for our development.
We were happy to have Directors and representatives from well known organizations in who play important roles in the citizen participation scene in Amsterdam. They includes Egbert Fransen, director at Pakhuis de Zwijger and Marleen Stikker from Waag Society, as well as Dick Glastra van Loon from Eigenwijks. Martijn Arnoldus from Kennisland/VoorJeBuurt, Marc Schoneveld from Stadsdeel Centrum and Hettie Politiek from the City of Amsterdam.
Dick expressed his interest of adopting the platform for the community he is leading in Nieuw-West better organising local projects and creating on-going channel between citizens and city authority. We were hoping to build up the conversation and create support to this specific case in Nieuw-West.
We are particularly happy because we managed to flip the discussion from talking about how complex the situation is toward what actions we still can do in order to make this project meaningful for current ongoing evolution of the city governance and citizen bottom up movements. Presenting this stakeholder map illustrating all the people we’ve met so far to them actually helped
We are far from being able to provide a comprehensive solution to any problem, but we are proud of our research so far and our strategy for positioning this new software tool among all the existing offerings and in a way that fits the way the City of Amsterdam is currently evolving.
In next weeks we will deep dive into Amsterdam Nieuw-West area, meeting with potential end users at Eigenwijks community.
“Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up”
Bill Clinton
Joining forces and sharing knowledge with civil servants, active citizens and neighbourhood initiatives runners in Amsterdam, for Code for Europe 2014.
Research on Civic Engagement Platforms
Follow-up to our previous post on Civic Engagement, me and Ohyoon have been researching on existing digital tools for civic engagement. We have extracted what we call "Building Blocks", which means common "reusable" patterns based on what current digital tools offer.
Our goal is to be able to use existing open source software, but we like to include inspiration from other proprietary solutions as well.
You can find our presentation at this address: view it on Slideshare
Civic Engagement
What is Civic Engagement?
This is how it is defined by Wikipedia:
Civic engagement or civic participation has been defined as "Individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern."[1] Civic engagement has many elements, but in its most basic sense it is about decision making, or governance over who, how, and by whom a community's resources will be allocated. The principle of civic engagement underscores the most basic principle of democratic governance, i.e. that sovereignty resides ultimately in the people (the citizenry). Civic engagement is about the right of the people to define the public good, determine the policies by which they will seek the good, and reform or replace institutions that do not serve that good.[2] Civic engagement can also be summarized as a means of working together to make a difference in the civil life of our communities and developing the combination of skills, knowledge, values, and motivation in order to make that difference. It means promoting a quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.[3]
Our assignment in Code for Europe in 2014 is working on a Civic Engagement platform for the City of Amsterdam.
Follow our blog in order to keep up to date on our project!
15-16 May 2014 we were in Edinburgh at Dovecot Studios with other Code for Europe fellows (thanks Nesta UK for setting up the great event!) where we underwent an interesting and enriching Service Design training given by nonon.
We also shared progress in our current projects, and it was exciting to see things coming together and finding the connections among the works of people thousands of Kilometers away from each other, and yet working with common ideals.
Here's a picture from the event!
VierenVijftig builds civic tech solutions that matter to people together with citizens and professionals.
We deliver digital social innovation solutions, and our belief is that a harmonic combination of open source technology and people-centered design approach can make a real difference in delivering solutions that matter to people.
We work in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, and through this blog we intend to share our findings and knowledge on the projects we are working on.
Ohyoon Kwon, Giovanni Maggini