Beth Beck, NASA Open Innovation Program ManagerNASA’s Office of the Chief Information OfficerOpen Data Interagency Meeting: June 2015

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Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataNASA’s open data convenes global citizens

through the International Space Apps Challenge to solve mission-relevant challenges.

Space Apps is NASA’s incubator innovation program to fulfill federal open data mandates to spur innovation.

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Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015 Participants: Self-Identified Skills Mix

Developer/Software: 5449Designer/Artist: 1978Game Design: 859Hardware: 1884Maker: 1367Story Teller: 1236Student: 7237Subject Matter Expert: 844Entrepreneur: 1940Other: 2156

Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps: Winners

Best Use of Data: NY Space Tag from New York City, New York offers a data tagging system that extracts keywords and core concepts to more easily query NASA data.

Best Use of Hardware: Valkyrie from Sofia, Bulgaria is a “smart” glove and mobile device that enables gesture and voice recognition to ease automation tasks for work or play.

Best Mission Concept: ArachnoBeeA from Limassol, Cyprus designed a spider-bee drone for small cargo transport with a grab and capture capability and the ability to dock and release.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps: Winners

Galactic Impact: CROPP from Rome, Italy is a bottle-bot with sensors to gather in-situ data applied to optical and radar satellite imaging to provide real-time crop risk assessment.

Most Inspirational: Tracking/ Sensing Phone-bot from Kathmandu, Nepal enables users to explore and extract data from nearby objects using a mobile robot platform with smartphone sensors.

People’s Choice Award: NatEv Explorer from Pristina, Kosovo uses real-time earth observation data to populate an interactive 3D globe for crowdsourced tagging and discovery of potential natural hazards and threats.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open Data@SpaceApps Social media demographics

Fact: More men than women participate in Space Apps.Yet ratio of girls to boys at Space Apps student events is high.

WHY?Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program Manager

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataTo understand how to engage more women in NASA data,

we conducted from dozens of interviews: We heard that women need signals indicating SAFE SPACES to engage.

Space Apps 2015 NYC – Data Bootcampers

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Leverage SIGNALS to remove/lower barriers to participation 1. Signal safety – invite women as speakers/board members2. Signal welcome – offer early access, childcare 3. Signal belonging – introduce concepts/skills to increase confidence/competence

Innovation through Open DataNew concepts to signal NASA = safe space!

#1 Data Bootcamp: Space Apps pre-event to introduce code/robotics concepts [signals safety, welcome, and belonging]#2 Datanaut Corps: Female founding class [signals safety, belonging]#3 Data Fellows: Female data scientists for 6 month assignments [signals safety, belonging]

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Space Apps Cairo

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“Men engage in their spare time.Women have to MAKE TIME.”

Vanessa Hurst, Founder and CEO, Code MontageBeth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program Manager

Office of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open Data#1 Data Bootcamp prototype: If you build it, they will come…

Inaugural Data BootcampCivic Hall, NYC

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Innovation through Open DataInaugural Data Bootcamp @ Space Apps NYC Mainstage

70 attended, 75% women, 30% under 21, 30% under 35.Event live-streamed, babysitting services on site.

Lagos, Nigeria and Cairo, Egypt also hosted live bootcamps.Rome and San Salvador convened virtual live-streamed events.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataData Bootcamp @ Space Apps NYC

. NYC Data Bootcampers participated in Space Apps hackathon, formed teams, collaborated, and won awards.

47% of Space Apps NYC participants were women.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open Data#2 NASA Datanauts: all female founding class (4 PIFS!)1. Signals a safe space for women to engage with us and innovate around

NASA data and tools; and2. Brings in leaders in the field help us learn how to speak their language

and engage others in their community around NASA’s data and tools.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open Data#3 Data Fellows Program Concept:• Recruit strong candidates to meet complex data requirements. Attract data science

and engineering expertise for mission support. • Leverage existing partnerships with academia, non-profits, industry.

Competitive program with criteria for leadership and experience . • 6-12 month tours to focus on addressing critical data challenges.

Space Apps Cleveland

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Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Simply naming “Women in Data” as a focus,we saw increased participation at Space Apps 2015

Space Apps 2015 Dhaka, Bangladesh

Space Apps 2015: Women in Data

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Space Apps Cotonou

Space Apps 2015: Women in Data

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Space Apps Round Rock

Space Apps Cairo

Space Apps 2015: Women in Data1st time event in Cairo led by two female students. 700 attended.

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Space Apps LA

Space Apps 2015: Women in Data47% of Top 60 Global Award finalists had one woman (or more) on team.

Space Apps Chile

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And, we’ve only just begun….