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Open innovation: opening government, creating synergies and boosting the civic tech ecosystem
TicTec 2016
Develop technology to solve public and social problems, while activating new ways of civic participation.
Our mission
Our beginnings
“The platform for the new era of civic innovation”
Our beginnings
Congressman pay 115 million pesos for an app
218 participants 11 prototypes 5 apps presented at the Congress
Codeando méxico
● Non profit-non governmental organization. We believe in the creation of a community-driven organization
● We want to consolidate the most important civic hacking movement in the country.
● We want to change the way citizens interact between them and with their governments.
● We want to transform the way citizens solve the social and public problems in their cities.
Mexico enters the Open Government Partnership
México´s 20th compromise in the Open Government Partnership was to implement an open innovation platform
Open Innovation platform for the Federal Government to buy digital products and services.
Agencies identify and problem and launch a challenge in the platform.
Proposals at idea level
EVALUATIONFINALISTS
SELECTION OF
Seed Capital
Functional prototypes
PRICE: CONTRACT WITH THE AGENCY
The process:
Open Innovation“Open innovation is the use of purposive inflows and
outflows of knowledge to accelerate internal innovation,
and expand the markets for external use of innovation,
respectively. [This paradigm] assumes that firms can and
should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and
internal and external paths to market, as they look to
advance their technology.”
Henry Chesbrough, Open Innovation: Researching a New
Paradigm (2006)
Main benefit: opening the government.“Public officials have limited access to the latest most innovative ideas in a form that they can use to solve real problems.The promise of opening government is that by connecting government institutions to people and organizations which diverse forms of expertise, government will be able to produce better results. (Beth Noveck, 2015)
Retos Cívicos achieved something else
To boost the civic-tech ecosystem in México.
The mexican context:
In México Retos Públicos
- To sale to government you need to have experience on selling to government.
- Open tenders are not that open.
- You don’t need experience, you need a excellent idea and prototype.
- It’s an open process
What to civic tech entrepreneurs need?Clients.
The results:
Creation of a sustainable ecosystem of civic tech entrepreneurs
-More than 1700 enterprises or groups participated in Retos Públicos
- 40% of the winners sold al least one more time to another government agency.
Establishment of a new mechanism to buy digital products from entrepreneurs
Retos Públicos migrated to the Economy Ministry and today is establishing as Reto México
Prove the idea that public problems can be solved through technology
More than 70 prototypes have been presented to public officials.
15 solutions have been created and implemented.
The main learnings
The main learnings:
1. The importance of a pilot.
- When the legal structure is complex.- When you need to prove an idea inside government
The main learnings:
2. The importance of an intermediary.
- When people don't trust government a lot.- When government don`t know how to talk with a techie
community
Iterate, collaborate and create open institutions =
The best formula to have successful civic tech products.
