Steal this Idea

1. Steal this Idea Todd Sander Deputy Director e.Republic’s Center for Digital Government

2. Things we should have stolen. Things we should be stealing. Things we could steal next. Our time together this afternoon … Agenda Content and Carriage -- Look and Feel, Form and Function Citizen Engagement -- Acting More Like the People Government Services Collaboration, Co-creation and the Cloud

3. Things we should have stolen. Things we should be stealing. Things we could steal next. A play in three acts … Act I Content and Carriage -- Look and Feel, Form and Function Citizen Engagement -- Acting More Like the People Government Services Collaboration, Co-creation and the Cloud

4. Less crowded, more portal like and stronger search Now 1994

5. Less book store, more collaborative filtering & transactions Now 1995

6. Not so loud, clean, lean and gold standard in search Now 1996

7. Less flea market and resale, more retail and alliances Now Then

8. Less hobby, more authority – still democratizing expertise Now 2001

9. Less about “my,” more about commercial entertainment Now 2003

10. Less about getting dates, more about the software Now 2004

11. Less about 140 characters, more about being a lite platform Now 2006

12. Less about file exchange, more about citizen engagement Now 1994

13. Who are you serving? Who Else? Design Matters

14. Smart Phone Look and Feel back on the Portal Navigation Matters

15. Let’s finish Web 1.0 before going onto 2.0 Great Lesson of amazon.com • Approachable – simple and sophisticated presentation, search and navigation • Findable – surfacing relevant results from vast data across thousands of providers • Actionable – collaborative filtering, fulfillment options and transaction completion

16. Things we should have stolen. Things we should be stealing. Things we could steal next. A play in three acts … Act II Content and Carriage -- Look and Feel, Form and Function Citizen Engagement -- Acting More Like the People Government Services Collaboration, Co-creation and the Cloud

17. Steal at your own risk Not all Ideas are worth stealing … DATELINE: LONDON 1 in 18 Texters injured while walking Source: ITN/ MSNBC, March 5, 2008

18. If it worked for campaigning, can it work in governing? The Obama Updraft • Email • 13 million addresses • 7,000 messages • SMS Program • 1 million subscribers • Social Networks • 2 million user profiles on his own socnet (MyBO.com) • 5 million fans and followers on 15 other socnets • Fundraising • 3.6 million donors • 6.5 million donations

19. Custom Made for Stealing

20. Education: An iPhone for that!

21. Sharing Best Practices

22. Deliberately Simple

23. Lessons of the Past

24. Specialized E-Mail Notifications

25. Volunteers as a Resource

26. Single Screen Portal

27. Open Government

28. Homegrown Social Platform

29. Media. Live.

30. Business Central

31. Cooperative Librarianship

32. Virtual Permit Estimator

33. The Evolving Portal Local. Social. Mobile

34. Blocking and Tackling Seeing Around Corners -style Charts

35. Flashy, GeoIP’d Info

36. Meeting today’s needs and tomorrow’s expectations Platforms and Partnerships

37. Meeting today’s needs and tomorrow’s expectations Platforms and Partnerships

38. Collaboration from Initiation to Implementation Wiki as Community

39. One Citizen, One Government, One Schedule Unified Online Calendar

40. If you think it is so easy, do it yourself… Budget Balancing in Maine

41. Economic Stimulus and Recovery Tracking Stimulating

42. “There’s an App for That” widgets.gov

43. 30 Million iPhone users are hard to ignore. iPhone: the anti Internet • The Next Great Leap Frog Opportunity • Smart Phones 2008: 173 Million • Smart Phones 2009: 192 Million (est.) • http://mobiledevdesign.com/software_news/smart-phone-growth-despite-poor-econ-0304

44. Things we should have stolen. Things we should be stealing. Things we could steal next. A play in three acts … Act III Content and Carriage -- Look and Feel, Form and Function Citizen Engagement -- Acting More Like the People Government Services Collaboration, Co-creation and the Cloud

46. The Public Record is Alive!! (Live Data Feeds) Co-Creating the Future • 260 data feeds in DC library • 47 apps in 30 days • $20,000 in prize money • 30% reduction in FOIA requests • 4300% ROI: $50K in prizes nets $2.3M in Apps People’s Choice The District's new Car Pool Mashup attracted 22 percent of the 3,320 votes and DC Bikes took another 13 percent. iLive.at - Doing errands in DC will never be the same. DC Historic Tours -- A walking tour planner, powered by a Google Maps-Flikr-Wikipedia mashup, minimizes steps and maximizes experiencePark It DC -- fighting the constant circling, the unnecessary meter plugging and even expensive tickets that come with finding a parking spot in DC. Where's My Money? DC -- The buck stops at a Facebook Forum on public expenditures, procurement and accountability. DC Crime Finder -- Ripped from the databases, not the headlines -- a customizable look at crime in the neighborhood.Stumble Safely -- Making the streets of DC safe for pub crawls.PointAbout Alerts -- an iPhone app makes crime reports, building permits and other civic  data location-aware in that you see the stuff that is closest to you first We the People Wiki -- An editable Voxpopuli for our Web 2.0 times, embedding the voice (or keystrokes) of the people through an editable, peer-led community reference website based on Washington, D.C. public data.

48. Citizen Coders and Live Data Sets and Feeds Co-Creating the Future II 40+ Open Source Apps in 30 Days PRIZES First Place (1): $15,000 Second Place (1): $5,000 Third Place (4): $1,000 Honorable Mention (10): $100 http://www.sunlightlabs.com/appsforamerica

49. Mashups before mashups were cool 24 Hour Make Over http://www.caltrain.org http://iamcaltrain.com

50. Help and inspiration comes from the ‘darndest’ places. Web 2.0 Pothole Repair Source: mysopciety.org