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I.T.: Baby or Bathwater?

Michal Migurski, CfA CityCamp Oakland 2013

@michalmigurski

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Information technology used

to mean paper.

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Oxford Filing Co. Speed Index:

http://teczno.com/s/yq5

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Paper is easy to mock.

Brazil, 1985

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Daily Show, 2013

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But! Communities of Practice.

http://teczno.com/s/yq5

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With the web, the “webmaster”

did everything.

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•“Please describe the details of the accident. You may not use any of the characters <, >, %, *, (, ), ^, <, |, ~, / or = in your responses.”

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With the web, I.T. became difficult and procurement was born.

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Pace of technological change

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90’s

~2010Pace of technological change

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Civic technology: 90’s that never ended

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Two steps to help rebalance…

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Let’s fast-forward civic tech to 2010.

Programming got easier, servers got easier, data got easier, and web design got easier.

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90’s

~2010Pace of technological change

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90’s

~2010hipster code

Pace of technological change

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Let’s get the good stuff back in-house.

The communities, the learning, the deep local knowledge of places and their histories.

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http://teczno.com/s/88wv

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OpenOakland and Code for America: 3 years of progress

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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.

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2) Oakland AnswersWrite-a-thons! Social events for non-coders!

Repeating things that worked elsewhere!

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“If animals don’t want to be eaten they should

learn to code”—Paul Ford, @ftrain

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3) RecordTracGetting closer to the actual core functions of local government.

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Recap: Choose 2010,

In-house the good stuff.

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Three bonus outcomes…

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Be good at information again.

http://teczno.com/s/yq5

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Fix procurement along the way.

http://teczno.com/s/7bz

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Refocus on helping solve people’s needs.

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Thank You.Michal Migurski

[email protected] @michalmigurski


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