Mr Hacker Goes to Washington
@SunFoundation

Washington, DC…

Washington, DC…

1,300+ Agencies
$71 Billion IT Budget
3 Million Employees

Bailout
Procurement @ DoD

How
Congress
patches
“code”

How
Congress
patches
“code”

is
Govt has legacy systems
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpmartineau/502316919

But,
since 2006…
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We are sharing information faster…

What have we learned?

FAIL

OpenCongress.o
rg
(Social/API/FLO

…they will follow
If we hack it…

Web = Realtime
Frequency drives efficiency
Print = Periodic
70+
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/1225274637/in/photostream/
in 50 days

Transparency by the People for the People
① Parse a State
350+
developers
② Join sunlightlabs@googlegroups.com
③ Go Hackathon - wiki.sunlightlabs.com

Transparency by the People for the People
④ Redesign an Agency Web Site
⑤ Create /Recovery Pages
⑥ Visualize Data

The NEW Washington, DC…
Seize New
Opportunities

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