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I.T.: Baby or Bathwater? Michal Migurski, CfA CityCamp Oakland 2013 @michalmigurski

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With all the structural problems in government IT, Michal Migurski dives into the history of how we got to this point and suggests some ways to rethink procurement and technology in local government.

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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