Download - Michal Migurski- Keynote at CityCamp Oakland
I.T.: Baby or Bathwater?
Michal Migurski, CfA CityCamp Oakland 2013
@michalmigurski
Information technology used
to mean paper.
Oxford Filing Co. Speed Index:
http://teczno.com/s/yq5
Paper is easy to mock.
Brazil, 1985
Daily Show, 2013
But! Communities of Practice.
http://teczno.com/s/yq5
With the web, the “webmaster”
did everything.
•“Please describe the details of the accident. You may not use any of the characters <, >, %, *, (, ), ^, <, |, ~, / or = in your responses.”
With the web, I.T. became difficult and procurement was born.
Pace of technological change
90’s
~2010Pace of technological change
Civic technology: 90’s that never ended
Two steps to help rebalance…
Let’s fast-forward civic tech to 2010.
Programming got easier, servers got easier, data got easier, and web design got easier.
90’s
~2010Pace of technological change
90’s
~2010hipster code
Pace of technological change
Let’s get the good stuff back in-house.
The communities, the learning, the deep local knowledge of places and their histories.
http://teczno.com/s/88wv
OpenOakland and Code for America: 3 years of progress
1) Adopt-a-Hydrant“What if you felt about your government
the way you felt about your iPhone?”
Fixing potholes and paying attention to basics got civic hackers to the table.
2) Oakland AnswersWrite-a-thons! Social events for non-coders!
Repeating things that worked elsewhere!
“If animals don’t want to be eaten they should
learn to code”—Paul Ford, @ftrain
3) RecordTracGetting closer to the actual core functions of local government.
Recap: Choose 2010,
In-house the good stuff.
Three bonus outcomes…
Be good at information again.
http://teczno.com/s/yq5
Fix procurement along the way.
http://teczno.com/s/7bz
Refocus on helping solve people’s needs.
Thank You.Michal Migurski
[email protected] @michalmigurski