public innovation network (xip)

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What's xip?

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What's xip

A transversal network of persons tied to Catalonia's public administrations or linked to ongoing initiatives. They are commited to improve citizen service by managing innovation, and applying best practices in collaborative technology.

Presently, xip relies on a group of involved professionals encouraging their respective administrations to incorporate improvements, enhance and deepen communication, share knowledge, achieve objectives and deliver on commitments.


xip objectives


Main objectives

1. Improve working methods, fostering citizenship participation.

2. Make citizen's life easier.

3. Become opinion leaders.


Secondary objectives 1/2

1. Increase efficiency.

- Boost affordable technology platform, either by cost, or simplicity.

- Promote methodologies and accountability tools in the collaborative workspace and also in social networks usage in the public administration to make evident value delivery.

2. Improve transparency towards citizen.- Teaching. Courseware programme for public administration schools.

- Sensibilization. Propose and organize awareness sessions for public workers.

- Promote public discussion. Participate in events and seminars dealing with transparency, participation and collaboration in public services.

- Article submission and other materials for publications and forums related with public administration.


Secondary objectives 2/2

3. Implement collective intelligence.- Evaluate opening xip common spaces to spread member materials, related with xip's objectives (blog, Facebook page or group -FB-, Twitter account -TW- and repositories like Slideshare -SL-, Flickr -FL-, Youtube -YT- and others to be considered).

- Mutually join in RSS Readers and sharing files and folders between xip members.

- Delicious boundles and tags (precisely stratified) to share bookmarks between xip members.

4. Involve other public workers.- Prepare the letter of commitment to explain xip's adherence and participation

conditions .

5. Boost citizen participation.- Put national, state and international-wide citizen participation initiatives

on the spot for the whole public administration sector.


xip's adherence


In order to achieve xip's membership, you have to be willing to invest time and efforts to work in new ways to improve processesand services while, at the same time, accepting the letter of commitments, based on the following principles: 1. Fair usage of username and password on community spaces.2. Fair usage of xip's environment, and mutual respect between users.3. Personal data veracity.4. Fair usage of services and technology resources.5. Personal data protection.6. Intellectual property protection.7. Responsability for contents, statements

and user behavior.

Who can join xip?


Work areas @ xip 1/2

Work in progress @ xip to deliver ideas and knowledge:

. GOV: governance, transparency, open data- eGovernment (electronic admin), oGovernment (open admin)

- Administration data visualization and reuse

- Intellectual property rules

- Digital identity management: customize responsibilities

. NET: networks, platforms & communication channels- Strategies to spread IT usage in public administration

- Collaborative work platforms in public administration

- Platforms for sharing inter-administration reference projects

- Establish shared idea bank

- Collaborative culture


Work areas @ xip 2/2

.COM: new public services, new delivery channels- Networked coordination between administrations

- Citizen-Administration crowdsourcing for improved services

.ORG: new organization models- Digital literacy

- Accountability culture: building indicator sets

- Cross work models (intra/extra-administrations)

- Processes and services traceability

.EDU: knowledge management, learning environments- Training administration personnel on new work models

- Encourage learning communities

- Collaborative culture

.CAT: linguistic usage- Linguistic usage in administration's digital environments


Networks &repositories @xip


xip's presence on social networks

Blog: xarxaip.wordpress.comTwitter: twitter.com/xarxaipFacebook: facebook.com/xarxaipYoutube: youtube.com/xarxaipFlickr: flickr.com/xarxaipSlideshare: slideshare.net/xarxaip


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public innovation network (xip)

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