Communities and Innovation Jeanne Holm, Data.gov

Opportunities for Connecting to Citizens Through Data.gov Agencies can help to drive innovation throughout their constituency by – Create an app for your agency’s data – Have a visiting intern or summer faculty? Have them create a lesson plan, video, or activity around agency data Integrate with existing educational plans or goals – Sponsor a challenge for developers around agency data – Participate in or lead a community on Data.gov April 25, 2011

What is a Community? A Data.gov community is an online space that people can have discussions, highlight data and apps, and determine the needs and direction for the data in that area Examples – Open data: – Semantic web: – Restore the Gulf: – Health April 25, 2011

Community Sites CommunityQ3Q4 Agency points of contact ✓ OECD (State) ✓ Human Rights (State) ✓ Developers (GSA) ✓ Open data research ✓ Climate (DOI) ✓ Education (Education) ✓ Energy (OSTP) ✓ Marine and coastal (OSTP) ✓ Foreign trade products (Commerce) ✓ Statistics (USDA) ✓ Food (Developers) ✓ Geospatial (EPA) ✓ Earth Science (EPA/NASA) ✓ Regulatory (NRC) ✓ (Navy/ONR) ✓ History (NARA) ✓ Women’s Economic Development (State) ✓ Innovation (State) ✓ Financial and Consumer Data (Treasury) April 25, 2011 Live Communities Open Data Semantic Web Health Law Restore the Gulf

What Can People Do? Browse and search for government data and apps Rate and rank datasets and apps Join one or more communities Engage in forum discussions in communities or around a specific dataset Comment on blog posts Communicate and coordinate with social media April 25, 2011

How Does a Community Start? Vision—what will the community connection and collaboration look like in the future Leaders—who will help to lead the community (a person or core group) Participants—who will be part of the community Outcome—what are the expected outcomes, metrics, and measurements that will show success Functionality—what types of activities will be conducted on the site (forums, blogs, wikis, ranking, rating, etc.) Content Interactivity—what ways will the community interact with the leaders, with each other, and with the public April 25, 2011

Questions? How would you like to be involved in the POC Community? Is there a community you are interested in leading or contributing to? Are we missing a community that would help to support your goals? Help to engage the power of your network to drive innovation in your community space! April 25, 2011