Innovation Dot Gov: Designing Democracy for the Age of Networks
The subtitle of this panel was: Using technology to change the default from closed to open creates government that is smarter and smaller and democracy that is stronger. It all went a little differently than expected. The moderator called on the audience to suggest topics that could be interesting. Yesterday, following Ruben Bos's presentation (read: https://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2 ... l-capital/ ), we wondered to what extent it is a positive development that social media act as a kind of catalyst for populism. This was an excellent opportunity to bring up this topic.
We launched the proposition: social media fuel populism, with the question: how can we ensure that technology also becomes a driver for putting issues on the agenda and making decisions about long-term issues? This question was then – to our great surprise – bombarded to one of the 3 topics to be discussed. We were bombarded to chair the panel and were then expected to get to work with a group of interested people in the room. We gladly took on that role!
Our pop-up mini panel produced the following thought-provoking thoughts :
The strong presence of populism in the USA is comparable to that in the Netherlands and is equally disturbing for those present.
Our approach to democracy encourages parties to be more concerned with winning souls than tackling long-term issues. Social media reinforce this. It is interesting to ask yourself whether we should not critically examine the current form of democracy?
Tim Bonnemann of Intellitics introduced us to the idea of 'liquid voting' or 'proxy voting'. The idea: you can give the right to vote to someone you trust. They can then do whatever they want with it. They can even pass that right on to someone else. You can also ask for it back at any time. You can manage your vote online. See also: https://www.markcarey.com/blogcoop/liqu ... aking.html
Charles Knickerbocker from samepageresults.com showed us the 'Theory U' when it comes to collective innovation ( https://www.presencing.com/presencing-theoryu/ ). Theory U offers a set of principles saudi arabia phone number list and examples for developing innovations together.
Lean UX is in Jeff Gothelf 's world the way to combine Agile Development with Design. We recognize a lot of what Jeff has to say from our own practice. The value of UX design has been derived in recent years mainly from the deliverables that we deliver. That worked very well for a while: in that way other disciplines understood better what we added to the design and development process. Lean UX puts an end to that.
The basic principles are:
Using prototyping, quickly have communicable and testable results. The motto: fail early, fail often, make failure cheap. You don't have to prototype everything, just the most important flow.
Speed first, quality later. That's not to say that quality isn't important in the end. The goal is to get something working first, and then refine it.
To provide as little documentation as possible.
Jeff made a call to all designers who feel Agile and Lean are threatening their design process: “You can no longer hide behind your monitor. You have to go out there, show your work to many more people. Long before you think it’s done.”
Managers also get a tip: stop “Swoop & Poop-style seagull management”, or walking past, shouting something and disappearing again. Ensure a continuous presence with your team to help make decisions and to support.