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#Blockchain Disciples Have a New Goal: Running Our Next Election #TrustIssues @medium

#Blockchain Disciples Have a New Goal: Running Our Next Election #TrustIssues @medium | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
If they squinted hard enough, attendees of the International Centre for Parliamentary Studies' annual Electoral Symposium, which took place in late May at the Troia Design Hotel, 90 minutes south of…
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WHY IT MATTERS: part of a well researched series of articles, this one looks at the use case of elections using blockchain - and the hope that it will reduce fraud and make the process more transparent.

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Pilotless planes on the horizon if public acceptance grows #AI #SelfDriving #Robots

Pilotless planes on the horizon if public acceptance grows #AI #SelfDriving #Robots | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Aviation consultant Mike Doiron believes that pilotless flights will be viable in the next five to ten years

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WHY IT MATTERS: we often suffer from tunnel vision when it comes to digital technology. Case in point: self-driving is not just for cars. Expect every vehicle to be self-driving in the mid-term (10 years). That means cars, truck, planes, bikes, lift trucks (warehouse), tractors (agriculture), luggage (travel), etc. This article is just one example of that.

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#Quebec province launches #digital #strategy mostly focussed on infrastructure #StratNumQc

La Stratégie numérique du Québec est un projet de société qui vise la cohérence de l’ensemble des actions gouvernementales afin d’accélérer l’essor, dans tous les milieux, d’une véritable culture numérique.

Cette stratégie a été élaborée en collaboration avec les citoyens, les experts, les entreprises et les organismes, selon leurs préoccupations, leurs besoins, leurs réflexions et leurs idées. Le ministère de l’Économie, de la Science et de l’Innovation a également travaillé de près avec plusieurs autres ministères pour définir les objectifs et les cibles de la Stratégie.

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WHY IT MATTERS: finally we get to see what the digital strategy for the province of Quebec. Can't wait to sift through the 89 page document to find out if it goes beyond infrastructure deployment to ensure everyone can connect to the digital superhighway (as I find this may be required but may be 20 years too late...).

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Facebook DID influence the #Elections via @Mike_K_Spencer

Facebook DID influence the #Elections via @Mike_K_Spencer | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

It's hard to imagine, just twelve years ago, that the media would have been reduced to Facebook, degenerated into what we have today.

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An interesting overview of the impact that social media, Facebook in particular may have had in the elections. Not sure if that is the case but for sure the world of media has evolved tremendously.

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Quebec province defines a #digital #strategy

Quebec province defines a #digital #strategy | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Le numérique doit dorénavant imprégner toutes nos actions de développement dans les domaines de l'économie, de la culture, de l'éducation, de la santé et des services publics, pour ne nommer que ceux-là. Il englobe tous les aspects de la société et les mandats de tous les ministères.

Les citoyens de plusieurs pays, régions et villes à travers le monde se sont déjà mobilisés pour définir leur avenir à l'ère numérique. Nous, les Québécoises et les Québécois, devons aussi saisir l'occasion de nous donner une vision de la société et de l'économie numérique que nous souhaitons.

 

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Follow this link for the full strategy document: 

https://www.economie.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/contenu/documents_soutien/strategies/economie_numerique/strategie_numerique_mandat.pdf 

Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight, September 6, 2016 12:40 PM
Condensé de bonnes intensions... Reste à voir ce qui en résulter de concret.
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#Montreal unveils its digital strategy

#Montreal unveils its digital strategy | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

Inspired by global best practices, stimulated by an ongoing dialog with Montréalers, the Smart and Digital City Office is working in nine key areas to make Montréal a world renowned leader among smart and digital cities by 2017.

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I am proud to have helped shape the strategy with the Digital City Office. Great team, great vision.

Jean-Marie Grange's curator insight, February 24, 2015 3:14 PM

Smart!

I haven't read the 50 pages of the strategy yet, but the first good news is that there is a digital strategy!

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A good review of the digital ideas and projects in Montreal via @GeoffroiGaron

Il y a tellement eu de choses qui a été initiée, créée, imaginée, sans avoir l’énergie du Politique pour l’enraciner dans nos organisations publiques et privées pour un changement autant économique que social. Il y a eu l’Alliance numérique, des manifestes de plans numériques (Communautique), des regroupements, des acteurs importants (en solo, duo, trio),  les 13 étonnées, l’Institut de gouvernance numérique, des co-working spaces, des maisons (Notman), même une Stratégie culturelle numérique du Québec (mars 2014). Mais plus important encore, des acteurs de divers milieux (artiste, programmeur, consultant, militant, enseignant, chercheur, administrateur, usagers, utilisateur) dans divers lieux et structures organisationnelles classiques et émergentes (ville, organisme communautaire, Living Lab, FabLab, grappes industrielles, startups, etc.) qui ont déjà créé les racines de l’innovation numérique du Québec. Il faut les cultiver pour les faire grandir.

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Feels like Montreal is getting more digital friendly and this review of some of the local projects kind of shows a reassuring trend. Let's hope we continue to promote digital via progressive tax credits. (in french)


Also see Montreal digital strategy: the 4Cs. http://sco.lt/5z2Qwz 

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4 axes de la stratégie "Montréal, ville intelligente et numérique" via @aqtech

Présentation de la Ville de Montréal
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Montreal appears to be heading in the right digital direction. This is the high level view, in french.

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NYC subway replacing station maps with touch screen kiosks- nice evolution but it could be so much more

NYC subway replacing station maps with touch screen kiosks- nice evolution but it could be so much more | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it
New York City plans to replace the maps in its subway stations with touch screen displays that will provide simple directions and real-time service alerts.
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Interesting announcement for businesses thinking of going digital because it helps highlight the difference between digitization, optimization and business transformation or "digital flip". Let me explain.


Putting paper maps onto digital screens is great because it provides a means for always accurate maps, along with additional and potential real-time overlay of information. Touchscreen interface makes it even better as it allows users to interact and get personalized information. But in principle the process has not changed: it has merely been digitized.


Questions should be raised, as they are by @luigi cappel, on how to improve the user's life using these new maps, for example by linking the them to mobile phone apps or automated payment systems. This is what I call "digital optimization", as it makes the process of getting to your destination on the subway more efficient.


Now compare that to the NYC city developed 311 mobile app. It crowdsources the information gathering of NYC problems - potholes, grafitis, restaurant issues, etc. - and provides the city officials not only with digital, real-time, and geolocated information of issues but actually "flips" the city maintenance model. It puts the users in control of gathering and prioritizing the work of city workers. It gives them a voice and transforms their relationships. And that is a true innovation.


In closing, let me point you to the NYC digital roadmap. Launched in 2012, it provides a strategy for going digital that remains relatively unique at this time.

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Thinking Digitally: How The Social Web Is Changing Arts, Culture, Politics & Economics

Thinking Digitally: How The Social Web Is Changing Arts, Culture, Politics & Economics | WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation | Scoop.it

When I ran for Mayor as a performance project back in 2005, part of my platform (as founder and sole member of The Blog Party) was free, citywide, public wifi and in-home broadband Internet as a public utility like water, gas, etc. Neither of those things has happened yet. But I also promised more transparency, accountability and access by increasing mayoral use of the Internet as a communications platform, open data sharing including budget numbers and insight into the workings of government. To give credit where credit is due, between 311, the highly functional and easy-to-use NYC.gov, the NYC Open Data site, My Money NYC and Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne Haot‘s twitter feed, Michael Bloomberg has done a hell of a job as the city’s first 21st Century Mayor.


In my previous essay I floated a few “blue sky” scenarios that, in this light, may not be as crazy as they sound, to wit:

Rebooting Representation: Imagine a representative democracy that uses big data to create alternate voter sets independent of place? A system that moves beyond the two party binary into either radical individual representation or alternate aggregation structures? Could this include a more complex but transparent system that balances place-based resource allocation and distribution systems with other criteria? What would digital demography and representative democracy actually look like? http://senseable.mit.edu/csa/

Rebooting Education: Imagine a federally funded and strategically developed K-12 MOOC that centralizes core curriculum but decentralizes place-based education. The MOOC offers a curriculum developed through strategic analysis of knowledge and skills required for maximum jobs and growth nationally. The curriculum is predicated on national standards and taught locally by nationally accredited teachers. Additional coursework, tailored to regional variance and cultural settings, can be implemented on the local level. This curriculum can be provided to home schoolers, self-aggregated small schools that would either hire an accredited teacher or become accredited themselves. Subsidy then becomes available for these smaller, independent classrooms and bricks and mortar schoolhouses become an option, not a necessity. Government scales back its involvement in the expensive business of maintaining bricks and mortar facilities and top-heavy, bloated administrative structures while guaranteeing access to education to all and insuring at least a minimum level of preparedness for students in the 21st Century.


Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc
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Interesting if a bit long and off-topic for this scoop.it log, the article presents a number of transformations, some underway others only possibilities, that I find interesting. Moreover, this covers industries and subject areas that I do not usually cover.

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