P.K. Agarwal, CTO, California

Agenda
• We The People
– The Business of Elections
– Civic Engagement
– Transparency
• Technology Looking Glass
– Cloud Computing
– Mobility
– Green
• New Markets
• Wrap Up

2008

Do You Tweet?
TLDNR
Too Long, Did Not Read

The Medium is the Message
The form of a message (print, visual,
musical, etc.) determines the ways in
which that message will be perceived.
Marshall McLuhan

The Medium is the Message
Communication Media, such as radio,
television, films, and computers have
far-reaching sociological, aesthetic, and
philosophical consequences, that it
alters the ways we experience the world.

Radio Movies
TV Internet

Movies

First Televised Debate:
Kennedy-Nixon 1960

Obama
And
The
Internet

Number of
Governments in US:
85,000
Number of Elected
Officials: 511,000
US Census

Market Size Estimate: Elections
511,000 x $10,000 = $5.1billion
(over 4 Years)

Civic
Engagement

Three Models
• Town Square
– Getting the Whole Community Engaged
• Front Porch
– Involving the Neighborhood
• ePetitions

White House Open
for Questions
March 2009

Front Porch

June 2009

ePetitions

To: President-Elect Obama
Your good friend Quincy
Jones said: "...next
conversation I have with
President Obama is to beg
for a Secretary of Arts."
The Undersigned

C-SPAN

Two Models of Transparency
• “Show me my Money”
– Financial Accountability (The Check Book)
• Data to the People
– Open Government

Data.gov

Stage Three
Web 2.0 External
We The People
Internet
eGovernment
Computing
Back Office Internal

Agenda
• We The People
– The Business of Elections
– Civic Engagement
– Transparency
• Technology Looking Glass
– Mobility
– Cloud Computing
– Green
• New Markets
• Wrap Up

Mobility

Just the Numbers
• Smart Phones 2008: 173 Million
• Smart Phones 2009: 192 Million (est.)
http://mobiledevdesign.com/software_news/smart-phone-
growth-despite-poor-econ-0304

April 23, 2009

Cloud
Computing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieledpictures/2570791174/

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IT is in Fuel Business?
Energy
Efficiency
The 5th Fuel
Other 4: Petroleum, Coal, Nuclear, Alternative

New Markets
• Elections
• Civic Engagement
• Transparency
• Digital Textbooks
• Broadband Mapping
• Smart Grid
• Health IT

Government IT Spend:
$148 billion
16% of Total IT Spend
2009 Figures

Stimulus $ Est. 85 Billion

IT and Economic Development
Electronic Health $20 billion
Records
Smart Grid $4.5 billion
Broadband $7.2 billion
Jobs Created in the First Year:
~900,000
Total Jobs Lost Since Dec. 07:
6.9 million
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/technology/26techjobs.html
https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/CommChong/post/Recovery-Act-Funds-for-Smart-Grid.aspx
http://www.whydom.com/2009/02/19/the-recovery-act-delivers-broadband-growth
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

PK’s Prognostication
• A New Culture in Government
• 3rd Stage Transition 2008-2012
• Commoditization of Technology
IaaS; PaaS; SaaS
3rd stage is all Saas
Open Source
• From Web to Mobile Web
• Data.gov as economic development

Agenda
• We The People
– The Business of Elections
– Civic Engagement
– Transparency
• Technology Looking Glass
– Cloud Computing
– Mobility
– Green
• New Markets
• Wrap Up

America makes prodigious mistakes,
America has colossal faults, but one thing
cannot be denied: America is always on
the move. She may be going to Hell, of
course, but at least she isn't standing still.
~e.e. cummings

THE END