60% of municipal workers will retire in 5 years
Inspired from Teach for America, Apps for Democracy…
2.0 + municipal workforce…
Bring in some new ideas
-Put cities in charge
-Focus on collaboration
City Recruitment
-Looking for cities
Fellow Recruitment
-Industry veterans – called to serve, team leads
-Talent – build resume, team member
Leonard Lin – CTO of Code for America…Sold upcoming to yahoo in 2005.
Support – city sponsors, mentors, fellows, CFA institute
3 to 5 cities – articulate a project…want built by 5 developers
-competitive and collaborative
-one team of 25 developers but competting 5X5
Timeline
-January – CFA Institute
Feb – City Tour
March – Sep – Development
Sep – Launch event
Oct – Nov – Wrap upand hand off
Create ongoing collaboration – place for cities to collaborate with each other
-share resources and share new thinkings
Talent – new generation of gov’t tech rock starts
-create role models
-drive culture change
Disruption of inefficient contractor model
Drive open data
Create people to community managers – secret sauce of web 2.0 revolution
-human voice of bureacuracy
-your city is listening
City
-help us keep city clean – potholes, service requests, using smart phones as pothole
-basic pothole reporting…doing baseline data gathering
-311 and CRM issue
-Quality of life indicators in the city
-Social network to prioritize potholes
-More sophisticated relationship of between cities – flow of people, ideas, etc…can we build services such as finanical, legislature
Build use case for city
Same tech for consumers…same tech for govt employees…
Looking at community organizing and citizen engagement
Neighborhood watchgroups…went from 4k to 20k…place for communication…tools to be organizer..more sophisticated.
Foursquare for neighborhood activism…launch series of govt programs…
Public engagement portal…pay bills…module on top of that…organizign tools
How do you remove barriers…neighborhood email list…
Project planning platform…Melbourne…created their 20 year plan in collaborative wiki. Public works process is arcane..and absurd. 1 public meeting…spit out site and hub…alerts for meetings, decisions…
Want hear feedback…vent for awhile…then shut-down..try project, get negative flow back, and afraid to do it again
Value creating SWAT teams….
Are there people in the city that now it? Visualize it…
Find, Validate publicly, and Connect Innovators
thanks Steve.