Governments Making Gains
Governments across the globe continue to make a difference by embracing Open Innovation strategies. Here are a few stories.
UK University IP
The Universities of Bristol, Glasgow and King’s College London have won £80,000 in funding from the Intellectual Property Office – the government body responsible for granting Intellectual Property (IP) rights in the United Kingdom – to pioneer easy access to their intellectual assets.
According to a University representative, the pioneering project will advance the use of IP created by the three Universities by innovative growth companies and offers a new way for Universities to contribute to the growth required in the UK economy.
New York City Transportation
Earlier this month, a diverse group of technologists, trains fans and government workers gathered for TransportationCamp East, to discuss how the modern transit system can be improved, focusing on the intersection between technology, citizens, public data and government.
Open Transit Data, such as GTFS, the General Transit Feed Specification, is a practice that has yet to be fully realized, according to attendees. This system allows transit districts to feed their bus and train arrival times to applications like Google Transit, or any of the many smartphone apps that help users plan a trip on public transit.
UK Cabinet Office
An article from Cloud Computing Journal shares a new strategy that has the potential to “enable an entire transformation of UK Government.” ‘G-Cloud’ initiative is a strategy to adopt Cloud computing to accelerate uptake of apps, via an ‘ASG’ – An Application Store for Government. The goal is to provide an incubation-to-launch facility for new open source projects. The portal offers workflows for proposing and building software projects, and importantly linking them to social needs so that they can be funded from various grant-making bodies.
U.S. Airforce Research Lab
The U.S. Air Force Research Lab this month launched a new Open Innovation Pavilion, featuring prizes for novel solutions to tough challenges facing the U.S. Air Force.
Among the first challenges are: the Design and Simulation of an Accurate Shooter-Locator, a Humanitarian Air Drop challenge which seeks novel ways to drop humanitarian supplies, The Vehicle Stopper challenge and The Remote Human Demographic Characterization challenge which seeks a system that can determine the approximate age and gender of small groups of people at a distance.
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