ETech: Mike Mathieu on Civic Software

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Like barn raising of old, we now have people getting together for a weekend and building apps.

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ETech: Mike Mathieu on Civic Software - Presentation Transcript

Save the Programmer. Save the Planet. MIKE MATHIEU FRONT SEAT 3/11/09
About Me
About Me
About Me
About Me
Civic Software
Software  Empowering  Creative Destruction  Change
Crisis
Tech Layoffs
Hope
Economics 2 Fixed Costs 1 Variable Costs
Cheap Software Hours to Build a Useful Web App 90000 80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 30000 20000 10000 0 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
Cheap Software Opportunity  Data becoming more important than code  Google, Amazon, Craigslist, Twitter  Civic Data is plentiful and largely untapped  2 people in a room can do something useful
Demos  FixMyStreet.com (MySociety)  CountMore.org  Walk Score  Transit Time
Google Transit on iPhone
Visualization
Usability
Civic Intelligence
Transparency
Hope