michal migurski- keynote at citycamp oakland
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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.TRANSCRIPT
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