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Setting the Stage
There was a time when
the only way people
interacted with their
government was by
voting or reading the
newspaper.
Now we communicate
directly. Strangers are
talking to each other,
organizing together,
and working together to
shape their worlds.
Everything is different
about how we can work
with governments and
we're only just starting
to figure it out.
What is Civic Innovation?
Civic innovation is the act of discovering and implementing new
ways to help a community solve its own problems
This might mean...
● Helping a local government release new
datasets about violent crime.
● Using low cost sensors to collect information
about local air quality in New York City
suburbs.
● Making it easier for people to learn about
their candidates for the state senate.
● etc.
The Need for Civic Innovation
Why Is Civic Innovation So Important?
Massive Existing
InfrastructureEffective technology can make
community processes and services more
effective and more impactful.
Everyone Relies
on Civic ServicesThe quality of public services affects the
quality of a everyone’s lives, and
everybody can benefit from efforts to
improve them.
Empowers
StakeholdersWe can enable understanding by collecting,
organizing, and distributing information more
effectively.
Immediate
ReusabilityCivic organizations around the world
share unique versions of the same
problems.
The Civic Innovation Process
Understand
Community
PrioritiesDefine a Strategy
for ImpactDevelop a
Solution
Validation
and Analytics
Systematize
the Successes
Data Seal
Allowing governments to release authentic datasets
- Uses hashing and encryption
to make it easy for an
organization to release any
type of file in a way that
others can validate
authenticity later.
- Intended to prevent the need
for the use of proprietary data
formats such as pdf.
- Built for the district attourney
of Washington DC.
Connecticut Data Collaborative
Changing the way Connecticut uses data
- Data portal featuring dozens
of datasets.
- Allows elected officials,
citizens, and journalists to
explore information about
cities and towns in the state.
- Several types of data
visualization, and tools to
filter and explore.
Opened Captions
- Socket-based API to push the
words being spoken on live
television onto the Internet.
- Distributed architecture,
designed to support second
screen experiences.
- Rapid prototyping tool,
possible to set up working
caption stream in under two
minutes.
Connecting television to the Internet
CivOmega
- Platform for engineers to
create question patterns that
map to API calls and
database queries
- Intended to make
government datasets more
useful to non-technical users.
Making data useful to normal human beings
Truth Goggles
Helping people remember when to think
- Layer of information to
highlight phrases in news that
readers should think about
more carefully.
- Interfaces designed to help
bypass people’s biases and
negative reactions to new
information.
- Tool for journalists to design
their own highlights, and
embed in their articles.