1. Sharing technology for the public good
Philip Ashlock | CivicCommons.org | OKCon July 2011

2. We help build platforms & communities to facilitate
collaborative software development & technology
reuse in the civic sector.

4. Who?
Team Board
Civic Commons Code for America
• Andrew Hoppin, former CIO, New York State Senate
• Andrew Rasiej, Founder and CEO, Personal Democracy Forum
• Beth Noveck, former US Deputy CTO; Professor, NYU Law School
• Brian Behlendorf, Director, CollabNet and CTO, World Economic Forum
• Bryan Sivak, Chief Innovation Officer, State of Maryland
• Carolyn Lawson, Director, eServices for the State of California
• Chris Holmes, Founder and President, OpenGeo
• Chris Vein, Deputy US CTO for Government Innovation; former CIO, City of San Francisco
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Clay Johnson, Founder and CEO, Big Window Labs
David Eaves, Adjunct Professor, Centre for Digital Media
• Deborah Bryant, Public Sector Communities Manager, Oregon State University Open Source Lab
• Dustin Haisler, former CIO, City of Manor
• Gunnar Hellekson, Co-Chair, Open Source for America and CTO, Red Hat US Public Sector
• Jascha Franklin-Hodge, CTO and founding partner, Blue State Digital
• Jennifer Pahlka, Founder and Executive Director, Code for America
• Peter Corbett, CEO, iStrategyLabs
• Ross Mayfield, VP, SlideShare; Chairman and Co-founder, Socialtext
• Stacy Donohue, Government Transparency Investments Director, Omidyar Network
• Tim O’Reilly, Founder and CEO, O’Reilly Media
• Tom Steinberg, Founder and CEO, MySociety
• Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google

5. www.OpenPlans.org
OpenPlans supports a more informed, participatory, and livable society by
engaging communities through journalism and open source software.

7. Find opportunities for collaboration,
match needs and tools
Research & communicate best practices
Build the legal and policy framework
to institutionalize collaboration
Apply the extra effort to spark &
sustain collaboration

8. Needs
Tools Support
Towards an open marketplace

9. Catalog. Full catalog coming in the fall

10. wiki.civiccommons.org: Research & Best Practices

11. Support Cities
Organizations
Technologies Information
Resources
Communities & Ecosystems

12. Support Cities
Organizations
Technologies Information
Resources
Sustainable!

13. Precedents

14. ?

15. Open311
A standard for real-world collaborative
issue-tracking.

16. 911 for Emergency Action
311 for Emergent Action

34. Reinventing the Wheel
Does every city need its
own app?
Boston NYC Portland Pittsburgh

36. API
Distributed innovation
API
API

37. Open311.org A standard for collaborative geospatial issue-tracking.

41. Vancouver
Seattle Edmonton
Portland
Toronto
Boston
San Francisco Chicago Philadelphia New York City
Baltimore
Washington D.C.
Miami

42. Open311
Open Source
wiki.open311.org/Open_Source

47. San Francisco's Enterprise Addressing System (EAS)

48. IT Dashboard

49. Federal Register / Neighborhood Register

50. Weave

51. San Ramon “Save a Life” app

52. The Civic Network?

53. Have a Project to Open?
civiccommons.org/engage
Mailing List
civicommons.org/discuss
Get Involved
Wiki
wiki.civicommons.org
Twitter & identi.ca
@civcoms

54. CivicCommons.org
Philip Ashlock phil@civiccommons.org