changing the frame: from social innovation to civic startups

@abhinemani@codeforamerica

Forney, TXApril, 2012

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Change the Game, Literally.

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea…”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

The MarketComparatively, the government IT market is the largest technology market• Over 50x bigger than

iPhone apps• Over 10x bigger than

the video games industry

Largely undisrupted, held by old vendorsGovernments want a change

Inaugural Civic Startups

The Pillars of a Market

Community

Customers

Companies

Capital

“Technology makes the easy things easy, and makes the hard things possible.”

-Tim O’Reilly

BLIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS

“The app proposes a new kind of more productive communication between the two groups that moves past angry and frustrated citizens on one end, and a paralyzed city on the other.”

-Fast Company

When you build civic tools, you build civic trust.

@abhinemani