changing the frame: from social innovation to civic startups
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@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