Slides without notes for Dados Abiertos Costa Rica conference presentation on open innovation.

1. Civic Tech Platforms & Coalitions
(or: Governments That
Work Like The Web)
Andrew Hoppin | @ahoppin
http://nucivic.com
(some content courtesy of Nick Grossman)

2. Falling Government
Budgets
Rising Government
Needs

3. Better
Government…
…Less $
3

4. The Architecture of the Web
DNS
HTTP
IP
HTML
CSS
Standards
The Web has an “open architecture”
and serves as a “platform” to build on

5.
creating the
potential for new things to happen
“The idea behind open innovation is as simple as it
is powerful: the creators of new ideas don’t have to
be within your organization in order to be helpful.”
– John Palfrey, Harvard Law School
Open InnovationOpen Innovation

6. Open Government Innovation
Transit
Open311

8. SERVER
CLOSED
architecture
Integrated,
proprietary
USER INTERFACE
HARDWARE
← few
apps
STANDARDS & APIs
OPEN
architecture
Modular,
open source
STANDARDS & APIs
many →
apps

10. “I no longer sit with pitted stomach
wondering where is the bus.
It’s less stressful simply knowing it’s
nine minutes away, or whatever the case”
Source: OneBusAway
44% of respondents reported being
much more satisfied

15. GTFS
2005
2012
GTFS
GTFS
GTFS
GTFS
GTFS
? ?
?
GTFS
General Transit Feed Specification

17. Open Government Innovation
Transit
Open311

21. 2009
311
311
311Open311
Open311
Open311

26. Open Government Innovation
Transit
Open311

27. Boston
27
Open Source Code

28. App Stores...

29. Facilities
Open Data...

30. http://flickr.com/photos/rocketqueen/1573565705/
Open Standards...
GTFS

31. Talent...

32. Communities & Collaboration

33. Infrastructure & DevOps

34. 2015 Ecosystem: 1000s of Cities, 10,000s
of Apps, 1,000,000s of Data Sets...

35. identifying
emerging
standards
success
stories &
lessons
learned
where are
there gaps?
sharing
software
building
practitioner
community
outlining the
core “civic
stack”
Supporting Open Innovation in Gov’t

36. EMERGING GROWTH
Open311 Transit??
What are the
essential civic platforms?
Weather
MATURE
GPSGov CMS

37. Distributed innovation
API
API
API
government
industry
citizen

38. But Most NYC IT Projects Still Look Like This...

39. Andrew Hoppin | @ahoppin
andrew@nucivic.com
http://nucivic.com