1. Code for America Summit 2015¶
30 September, 2015 - Oakland, CA
Attended by Colin Powell, CfM Delivery Lead and Ben Sprague, Bangor City Councilor
1.1. Jennifer Pahlka’s Welcome¶
- Organizational structure not setup to account for user experience when you write law and legistlation
- Prototypes, tested with users
- Not just immigration, college-readiness that needs new tech approach
- START WITH USERS, not just how we should be making technology, how we should be making government
- Go out, talk to people, ask if things are really as they seem
- How we should work in local gov, not done for the people, done by the people
- Cultivate the Karass – Jake Brewer
1.2. Libby Schaff, Mayor of the City of Oakland¶
- Create an opportunity pipeline
- Provide the opportunities of technology to those who need it
- Government has not always served people equally, now we have the tools to improve
- Mission-driven
- #techquity
- Properity of the technology age has to be shared equitiably
1.3. Jake Solomon, Health Project Manager at CfA¶
- Delivery, continual process of understanding and meeting user needs
- CfA has spent the year to learn how to deliver SNAP
1.4. Harlan Weber, Brigade Captain, Code for Boston¶
- equal parts: Mission-drive startup, Advocacy group, Tech meetup, Social club
- Worked with problem owners to develop their problems over two meetings
1.5. Karen Boyd, City of Oakland¶
- Equity, Simplicity and Trust
- Equity means reaching ALL people
- Simplicity means providing simple instructions in plain English
- Trust means making sure employees and citizens trust the government
- Oakland has a “Digital by Default” strategy
- Opening a Civic Design Lab space
- Process provides an open data policy and digital standards
- The Digital Front Door project
1.6. Panel: Building a 21st Century Transporation Network¶
- Transporation is a land-use issue, not just movement
- Land isn’t free, public pays for access to the road, and companies that make money need to trade equitibly
1.7. 21st Century Tools¶
- SimpliCity product, provide answers to common questions
- CityVoice app to solicite feedback with phone numbers and signs
- Understanding your users
1.8. Building Data Standards on Github¶
- Mark Headd, Philip Ashlock, and Renata Maziarz
- Not a compliance exercise, about making data more accessible, not just for public, but also decision makers
- Better Data, Better Decisions, Better Government
- Machine read-able, platform independent
- Who are thes stakeholders?
- Maziarz: Be open by default
- Have a plan for responding to feedback
- Got criticism about lack of response to responses ... need handlers/people responsible
- Don’t get cold feet
- Ashlock:
1.9. Ideas from 2015 CfA Summit¶
- Improving food stamp process
- Mapping pedestrian and bike traffic
- Providing a digital front door for users to get off on the right foot
- Find simple ways to answer user questions (first need the data)
- Look into what it would take to implement CityVoice in Bangor and Portland