Monday, May 27, 2013 - 09:30 to Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 17:00
Venue:
Hanzehogeschool Groningen
The Opening Up project is organising a 4-day Summer Academy for Social Media Trainers in Local & Regional governments and businesses. The program is a Train the Trainer program for those who are already involved in social media and foresee or aspire a leading role regarding the use of social media in local governments. The program is offered at Master level and requires a bachelor level working experience in a communication related field as well as a proper understanding of the English language. Students will be trained by experts in the field and work on cases relating to their own organizations. The work will be assessed and students will receive an official certificate.
The Open Data Conference in Cambridge showed that the awareness, availability and use of open data have come a long way during the last few years. More and more data are published online in machine readable formats. New tools are developed to enable linkages of data. Data ecosystems are emerging that demonstrate the dependencies between the data provider, intermediary and user to keep data up-to-date. Examples from the conference show that open data is used across Europe in City apps, spending reviews, legal referencing and economic, social and environmental needs assessments.
Facebook, e-business, twitter, google analytics, ... Internet has no boundaries. Consumers make good use of all these online opportunities, but for entrepreneurs, it is not always obvious to find out which forms of online presence are relevant to their business, what impact they have, and exactly how to start. The project "The Winkelweb West Flanders' (WWW), wants to help traders with these crucial choices.
Within the Opening Up project, the Hanze University Groningen is developing the “INNL social network map”. This International Social Network Map is conceived as a SME Internationalisation support service and is close to launch. An alpha test was conducted with 15 employees of the Hanze. As a whole people are positive about the added value on showing, sharing and searching international contacts.
In June/July 2012 the first practical ComProNet tests were performed. "Community Protection Network" is a project aimed at achieving a Proof of Concept of a modern way of alerting and communicating with citizens and professionals based on real-time formation of ad-hoc groups of participants working together on an incident. It uses technical sensors and social media to receive and send information, using the principle of citizen participation. The Compronet system integrates a high degree of automatic processing of data and information to accelerate the response time of participants relative to an incident and to increase the participants’ consciousness of the environment.
In June 2012, the Opening Up project organised a conference on open data. During the conference we made some short video interviews with most of the speakers. See what Jeremy Millard, Kim Søvsø Pedersen, Sara Loisa Matikainen, Jacob Østergaard and Rene Nederhand shared on working with open data.
The Groningen Police are launching their ComProNet initiative today. The Community Protection Network is a project based on hightech sensors and social media aimed at helping people faster in case of an incident.
Kristiansand has for a long time spent resources on analyzing and publishing data based on demographics. This information is now ready to be publicized on an aggregate level and in terms of general classification of mainly age groups. One can therefore also use the data for more exact analyses and analyses across different services, something that will give a greater insight into specific needs, over- or under-distribution of services, investments and other information.
On June 12th, the Opening Up project organises an Open Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Open Conference will introduce different perspectives on open data and how it can be used in various ways – both as a local government and as a business. The European digital agenda has a strong focus on how opening up governmental data for re-use can have major benefits for citizens, businesses, society and the governments themselves.
The Flemish government organises an "Open Data Day" on 15 June 2012. Main activities will be: "Apps for Flanders" and "Open Data - from strategy to practice".
Opening Up will be participating in the first national NUP Live! Conference. Duringthis congress, experience will be the focus point and participants will be plunged into the world of services. They get information, tools and tips to get started immediately after the conference.
Social media are now part of our daily lives. A first assignment for a local government is to use these social media channels in their own communications.
