ETech: Mike Mathieu on Civic Software

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Mike Mathieu's "Save the Programmer. Save the Planet" session on civic software and the work of Front Seat at O'Reilly's ETech 2009 in San Jose.

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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

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

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ETech: Mike Mathieu on Civic Software — Presentation Transcript