Around the horn...what we want to learn / talk about
- Interested in more of the fundamentals for citizen involvement and collaborative, participatory democracy
- San Fransisco Mayor: citizenville
CityCamp: http://citycamp.govfresh.com/
Code for America: http://codeforamerica.org/
examples
- Honolulu answers - now redeployed in Oakland as Oakland Answers
- initiatives like this are changing the mindset of IT in city government
New roles and initiatives in government
- Chicago, IL - Chief Data Officer
- SF - Chief Innovation Officer (usually involves data)
- Boston, MA - Director of new urban initiatives
- San Jose, CA - Social innovation contest
- Cary, NC - Technology task force
- Raleigh, NC - Open data program manager
- California starting a competition at the community colleges that will roll up to a state-wide competition
One of the keys to adoption: process of starting with ideation instead of technology
City of Houston - hackathon, gave them 8 different datasets
Sunlight Foundation - non-profit, focused on transparency, as technology changes, they created Sunlight Labs
this all comes down to change | http://sunlightfoundation.com/
Libraries with no books? Converting them into co-working spaces. Instead of going to seek information, you go and create information.
Questions: What are some strategies to changing the mentality in IT?
- cloudcamp london
- change agent work within government -- finding a critical mass of champions
- IT consolidation, cultural change of everyone not "owning" their own stuff (websites, security, etc.)
- the need for contract and procurement people to think differently about open source
- brown bag lunches
- 1/2 day workshops
- Spike in London, using ICT for development