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Release of public sector information (PSI) through co-creation not only resulted in a policy to opening up public sector data. It can be concluded that using a research-through-design approach, connecting crucial partners can create a sustainable infrastructure to opening up data and fosters further social innovation as well. Experiences with co-creative partnerships show how to deal with thresholds and lower them. The open(ed) mindset clearly has impacted the local municipality, in terms of being open to empowering, open to share and being open to change. Not only do the co-created concepts serve as boundary objects, animating public servants to free up more PSI for re-use and giving them potential fuel for other service design applications, but also the collaboration itself enhanced by design interventions seem to be promising in transforming towards a more transparent and sociable smart city. Differently put, the open data movement in our city is not seen as an end unto itself, but as a means to co-create meaningful applications that enrich people’s lives, a new strand of city making: people making and co-designing the city.
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Special thanks to all partners in the Rotterdam Open Data initiative and colleagues of the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (researchers of Creating 010, teachers and students of the School of Communication, Media and Information Technology who were involved in the Rotterdam Open Data programme). The work presented has been partly funded by Rotterdam Media Commission and SIA RAAK Publiek. Part of this work has been presented in the Digital Cities 8 workshop in Munich and shared among the workshop participants.
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Mulder, I. (2015). Opening up: Towards a Sociable Smart City. In: Foth, M., Brynskov, M., Ojala, T. (eds) Citizen’s Right to the Digital City. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-919-6_9
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