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It's not enough to simply open data and have an API. Government needs to get better at fostering communities around all of it's services. To do this it needs to divest itself of some control and invest in communities that are already working. Curating existing communities around data and services is critical for future success. Can we create a joiner government that supports civic participation at all levels?
Do electeds and lawmakers weigh the importance communication styles differently? What's the going rate for a tweet on the political communications market these days? Do you really know what kind of impact you're making with that petition or form letter?
In an advocacy world where everyone's got an opinion to voice, few people know how much weigh is--and isn't-- given to different types of political advocacy.
The human brain assigns levels of value to everything, even the communications from other humans. Find out in this Ignite talk where you should invest your voice.
Rami Kassab is the CEO and co-founder of Typethink, a creative web design and development firm located in the heart of Portland. Rami headed Typethink's initiative to expand into the municipal sector through their custom web application development services. Typethink has since contracted with the City of St. Helens to design and develop a new branded website offering a comprehensive set of services to their residents. Through their collaboration with St. Helens, Typethink has put together a partnership program in order to engage other cities for the multi-year development project.
Laws are a machine, and not a very smart one. Principles are living parts of your mind, and can adapt to new conditions. Accessing laws requires Expensive specialists, Principles are available to the understanding of all.
Here we shall challenge the most basic idea of government, the Rule of Law. The goal is to replace the heavy handed mechanistic methods of the 17th century legal system with a simpler, practical, reflexive system of legal principles. These can be applied without obtuse, specialized expertise. The principle of Voluntary Association will be our test example. Open source government will be the affirmative proposition.
The GovHub presentation will have an introduction to the general ideals of GovHub and what we hope it will be, and then use 3 roles or characters to describe the problems when governments and open source developers try to work together and how GovHub and other collaboration tools like it can help solve those problems.
GovHub partners are Greg Lind, a web based software developer and architect, currently employed by Metro Regional Government in Portland, Oregon. John Miller formerly of Lewis and Clark College and Metro and Jarhid Brown from Metro and formerly the Department of Defense.
What happens when you combine two risk-taking government employees, an active developer community, and a bus schedule? Unlimited amounts of innovation, improved customer service, praise for an embattled government agency, and a model for building a government/citizen developer partnership. Hear how the Massachusetts Department of Transportation learned from TriMet that open is better.
Since Washington, DC, launched Apps for Democracy, the popularity of public sector open data initiatives and software application design contests has been on the rise at the State and local levels. Nevertheless, these initiatives face three major challenges, and all three relate to support and adoption:
1. support and adoption from public sector agencies, departments, bureaus, and elected officials;
2. support and adoption from software developers; and
3. support and adoption from the users of software apps and open data.
In the near future, collaboration amongst different jurisdictions in standardizing data across local, county, state, and international boundaries will pose significant challenges. I do not think these are insurmountable. This presentation focuses on the regional nature of a modest open data and app design contest in the Portland area called Civic Apps for Greater Portland, and attempts to share lessons learned.
Abraham is one of the editors at the tech news site ReadWriteWeb. Last February something happened that made him suddenly realize that there are a significant number of people who are navigating the Web in ways they don't understand. This Ignite presentation is a unique case study -- sometimes funny, sometimes serious -- that illustrates that the problem is bigger than those of us who develop online tools, produce content and create user interfaces realize.
Deb Bryant introduces IgniteGov and Selena Deckelmann tells the audience about Ignite and what to expect from the event
What is Ignite?
Ignite is a geek event in over 100 cities worldwide. At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes.