This was presented by Catalina Luz Demidchuk from Codeando Mexico at the Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC2016) in Barcelona on 27th April. You can find out more information about the conference here: https://www.mysociety.org/research/tictec-2016/

1. Open innovation: opening government, creating synergies and
boosting the civic tech ecosystem
TicTec 2016

2. Develop technology to solve public and social problems, while
activating new ways of civic participation.
Our mission

3. Our beginnings
“The platform for the new era of civic innovation”

4. Our beginnings
Congressman pay 115 million pesos for an app

5. 218 participants
11 prototypes
5 apps presented at the Congress

6. 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.

7. Mexico enters
the Open
Government
Partnership

8. México´s 20th compromise in the Open Government Partnership was to implement an open innovation platform

9. Open
Innovation
platform for
the Federal
Government
to buy digital
products and
services.

10. Agencies identify and problem and
launch a challenge in the platform.
Proposals at
idea level
EVALUATION
FINALISTS
SELECTION OF
Seed Capital
Functional
prototypes
PRICE: CONTRACT
WITH THE AGENCY
The process:

11. 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)

13. 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)

14. Retos Cívicos achieved something else
To boost the civic-tech ecosystem in
México.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. The main learnings

18. The main learnings:
1. The importance of a pilot.
- When the legal structure is complex.
- When you need to prove an idea inside government

19. 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

20. Iterate, collaborate and create open
institutions =
The best formula to have successful civic tech
products.

21. THANKS!
Catalina Demidchuk for Codeando México
@catademidchuk
catalina@codeandomexico.org