Building Digital Commons - How Civic Tech Drives Public Innovation

In this presentation, I explained the Code for Japan activities and how civic tech community drives public innovation. Also, explained an idea of creating an endowment fund for disaster prevention.

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1. Building Digital Commons How Civic Tech Drives Public Innovation. Hal Seki, Code for Japan 1
3. Focus area 3 E-participation Digital commons Citizen driven projects
6. Many contributions from the world ❤ In the 3 weeks, We’ve got 750 issues and 671 were closed by 224 contributors.
7. ex. Accessibility Issues 20 issues (threads) that are related accessibility.
9. But… sustainability is an issue Find a gap Understand Problems Prototyping Build Product Service in Success rate Timeline
10. Community is not a free resource We are building tools that solve social problems. I would like to collaborate with the government. OK, so you guys will make an app for us as a free?
11. Getting funds is difficult Government funding Philanthropy funding Collaborate with private companies Not much options and difficult to find Very strict and difficult to apply Difficult to share vision
12. My next challenge
13. Data and Rule Inconsistencies • Different rules and data formats across local governments • Hinders information gathering and coordinated response Difficulty in Knowledge Accumulation • Limited resources during disasters require flexible responses • Challenges in thorough post-disaster review and improvement • Recurring issues due to inadequate formalization of tacit knowledge Reliance on Voluntary Public-Private Partnerships • Government resources are stretched during disasters • Heavy dependence on voluntary private sector support • Lack of sustainable investment in problem-solving initiatives Challenges in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
14. An endowment fund for disaster prevention projects Focusing to build and maintain digital public goods with communities. Creating and supporting open digital public goods to support disaster management. Allocation of funds to create empathy with people Securing long-term, sustainable funding
15. Impact-Driven Investment Vehicle Fund to raise $50-60M from private sector We generate revenues by investing the fund in stocks. Allocate the profits to Quadratic Funding match pool.
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