Open Innovation at Valladolid Sample Clauses

Open Innovation at Valladolid. The Valladolid pilot focused the cloudification process on the open innovation methodology, as it was stablished in the project’s Document of Work. Our stakeholders group was composed of different profiles that could provide an interesting insight to the project. Part of them was selected among the municipality internal departments affected by this change in their way of working. Relationships with the stakeholders was very fluent during the life of the project and their collaboration has been very significant, in general. Initially, internal users with an administrative role had no clear knowledge about the object of the project and to what extent the scope of cloud computing was going to change the way of service providing. This could be more related to a lack of connection between their work positions and new trends in technology, than to a possible reluctance to change. Meanwhile, external users stood out as the most involved stakeholders at the beginning of the project, probably because all of them were more familiar to cloud computing technological environments. Later on, the participation of the whole group can consider it definitively more homogeneous and the work done had a balanced result. Another point to underline about participation of stakeholders is that, initially, a big group of internal technical users was selected in order to give support to and somehow sponsor every candidate application. Once selected that first candidate application for cloudification, the stakeholders sponsoring the rest of applications left the group, as their contribution to the project would be significantly more reduced from that time. Once stablished the definitive stakeholders group for the rest of the project, some regular meetings were held, approximately every three months (excluding summer), although an informal email list including all the group members had been used to provide relevant information when a project milestones were reached. Not only in the project steering committee, but also in our city project team, there was an extensive debate about whether to include citizens in the stakeholders group as their role of final users of public services could be considered relevant. Finally, it was agreed that in any case, public services providing must be transparent to the final user, so the technology focus underlying the service should not be considered something relevant to ta that group of possible stakeholders. Having into account this, all the people ...