Ten steps for building a digital manifesto for your organization, keynote speech presented to government employees at the California Leadership Forum in 2014.

1. Sarah Granger
California Leadership Forum
September 17, 2014

4. Pervasive technologies
Increasingly open data
Extensive toolsets for the public
Retrained teams
Sharing and collaboration

6. Upgrading leadership
Reducing bureaucracy
Engaging civil society
Expanding public participation
Streamlining policies, procedures

11.  1) Envision your organization or role in 10 years
 2) Identify goals & objectives
 3) Create a meaningful framework
 4) Plan a realistic timeline
 5) Build a dynamic team
 6) Harness the power of the people
 7) Innovate together
 8) Apply appropriate metrics
 9) Write it down
 10) Publish and present

22.  1) Envision your organization or role in 10 years
 2) Identify goals & objectives
 3) Create a meaningful framework
 4) Plan a realistic timeline
 5) Build a dynamic team
 6) Harness the power of the people
 7) Innovate together
 8) Apply appropriate metrics
 9) Write it down
 10) Publish and present

24.  New Zealand – data.govt.nz open data portal
 Netherlands – national ICT agenda
 UK – fixmystreet.com
 South Korea – Information Network Village, reducing
digital divide in rural areas
 US – Thomas.gov & Sunlight Foundation’s
OpenCongress
 US – State Dept. Intranet & robust social media
engagement @statedept

25.  Utah Open government resources – open.utah.gov
 State Decoded – state laws translated into plain
English (Virginia)
 California Secretary of State on Twitter - @casosvote
 Massachusetts Open Data Initiative Wiki
 Texas Controller’s Office - Texastransparency.org
 Legislative bill data online, i.e. leginfo.ca.gov
 Voter information sites online
 Custom election sites based on the data

26.  Washington, DC – Apps for Democracy contest
 San Francisco – DataSF.org for data, apps, SF311.org
for info, services
 Portland – CivicApps.org
 Chicago – ChicagoLobbyists.org tracking city
lobbying
 Berlin - berlin.mixxt.de
 Transparency Camps & data camps in cities around
the country & around the world
 Neighbor.ly – crowd funding civic projects

27.  US ranked #2 in “e-government readiness” index
by UN in 2010 (S. Korea = #1, Canada = #3)
 Improved speed, accuracy & convenience
 Access to gov’t data becoming easier & cheaper
 Through social media & crowd sourcing, people
are becoming closer to decision makers
 More online services than ever before
 Public becoming accustomed to e-government
solutions

29. Contact:
Sarah Granger
sarah@sarahgranger.com