MOIOSThe Municipality Open Innovation & Open Source workshops are a series of two day events that will help municipalities build practical (and cost-saving skills) in Open Source and Open Innovation. BackgroundInnovative use of ICT is the key driver of growth, renewal and effectiveness in all sectors of society. The Internet and the tools now used by a handful Electronic Frontierists? and in many FLOSS communities will revolutionize the way we organize global talent in development of new private and public services and products, how we educate, coach and recruit talent and how we create new businesses. The Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authorities (KS) has published a three year plan on how to introduce ICT in Norwegian municipalities. The plan is called eKommune 2009 - The Digital Jump. This plan calls for all municipalities to evaluate use of FLOSS as part of their ICT planning documents. The Municipality Open Innovation & Open Source (MOIOS) workshops are part of the planned training offerings of the Open Innovation Center. The intent is to provide the workshop in collaboration with regional educational institutions like Telemark University College and later with international institutions such as MIT, UNU-MERIT and to make it possible for practitioners to build and document their skills, even if they do most of their learning on the job. FocusMOIOS is meant to rapidly develop a municipalities ability to get real benefit from open source and open innovation. To do this, the workshops focus on four key areas: Training cross-functional teams: New methods are difficult to adopt across an organization. Having a mix of people and roles present from a larger group helps the behaviors and competencies learned at the event spread more effectively throughout the entire organization. Essential training: Providing the needed foundation in key processes and technologies. Interaction with experts and peers: MOIOS will bring participants together with leading thinkers and doers on the electronic frontier, as well as their peers who have already started using open innovation and open source at their municipalities. Solving real problems at the workshop: Participants will start developing or refining their open strategy at MOIOS under the guidance of experts and more experienced peers. At MOIOS pioneers in FLOSS use and Open Innovation to present their cases and learnings on top of basic training in the basics needed to understand how open licenses and open collaboration can create value and motivate key municipality stakeholders to plan for more innovative use of ICT and more innovative ways to collaborate. Choosing a team to sendShort-Term GoalsWhat, When and HowThe first edition of MOIOS will bring together a small group (less than thirty) of ICT workers from municipalities throughout Grenland and will likely be held in mid-December 2007 or January 2008. We hope to bring small cross-functional teams from each participating municipality. Having a mix of people and roles present from a larger group helps the behaviors and competencies learned at the event spread more effectively throughout the entire organization. Content for the first workshop will likely consist of:
We hope to follow the first MOIOS with sets of in-depth workshops that each focus on key topics discussed at the event, such as wiki installation, administration and use; deploying Open Source infrastructure; creating and managing open collaboration projects and so on. Medium-term GoalsWe also hope to present larger editions of MOIOS that focus on a national level and then an international level. We hope that participants from Telemark University College will attend, both as an aid to their Masters in Open Source program and in their roles as professional educators who can help us refine our future offerings. Sharing Ideas and Building a CommunityPlanning documents and outcomes from the workshop will be licensed under open licenses, allowing others to duplicate what we have done for their own regional benefit and to keep collaborating after the MOIOS workshops. |
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