Many of Oakland's tech challenges could benefit from public-private leadership. This is a rough draft presentation of the text at http://oaklandwiki.org/Technology_Commission_Proposal
What could kill NSTIC? A friendly threat assessment in 3 parts.Phil Wolff
At two events 18-months apart, teams of suits, geeks, and wonks (industry experts, technologists, public policy analysts) brainstormed and scored what could lead to failure of NSTIC, an international effort to create an identity ecosystem. The whitepaper at http://pde.cc/nsticrisks recaps the long list of potential threats, a shorter list of preventive strategies, compares the 2011 and 2012 events, and names the two greatest threats: poor user experience (harming trust, adoption, use) and imbalance among the forces tying the identity ecosystem together.
Making Better Internet Policy: An Analysis of the National Information Infras...Jeremy Pesner
My Masters Thesis mapped diversity of stakeholder involvement to policy outcomes of the National Information Infrastructure. I reviewed many archival documents from the era and interviewed nearly twenty different stakeholders who were involved at the time.
Thesis Committee: D. Linda Garcia, David Ribes, Michael R. Nelson
A Curated Conversation on Digital Inclusion held at Sheffield Hallam University January 17th 2012
Early slides individual comments, later slides summary and policy recommendations
Sharing between communities in the Smart City space is critical to scaling and success. It's also a vital pathway to creating entrepreneurial successes to fuel growth in the local innovation economy. This is my presentation on how to set up smart city projects for success and share them between communities.
5 Strategies to Avoid the Digital RiptideJohn Mancini
Keynote presentation at the ABBYY Partner Conference in Tokyo -- How can you turn digital DISRUPTION into digital TRANSFORMATION? I did a broader accompanying blog post on some of these themes here -- http://info.aiim.org/digital-landfill/3-lessons-from-japanese-trains-information-management-and-the-internet-of-things
BBC approach to accessibility & how BS8878 enables others to do the sameJonathan Hassell
Presentation given by Jonathan Hassell (Director of Hassell Inclusion and lead author of BS8878) at User Vision, Edinburgh for Word Usability Day 2011.
Covers: why and how the BBC approach accessible; how BS8878 helps organisations understand the business case for accessibility; how it provides organisations with a framework to embed accessibility in their policies and web design processes; how hassell inclusion can help you move forwards in implementing BS8878 (read the blog at http://www.hassellinclusion.com/category/bs8878/ for more help)
What could kill NSTIC? A friendly threat assessment in 3 parts.Phil Wolff
At two events 18-months apart, teams of suits, geeks, and wonks (industry experts, technologists, public policy analysts) brainstormed and scored what could lead to failure of NSTIC, an international effort to create an identity ecosystem. The whitepaper at http://pde.cc/nsticrisks recaps the long list of potential threats, a shorter list of preventive strategies, compares the 2011 and 2012 events, and names the two greatest threats: poor user experience (harming trust, adoption, use) and imbalance among the forces tying the identity ecosystem together.
Making Better Internet Policy: An Analysis of the National Information Infras...Jeremy Pesner
My Masters Thesis mapped diversity of stakeholder involvement to policy outcomes of the National Information Infrastructure. I reviewed many archival documents from the era and interviewed nearly twenty different stakeholders who were involved at the time.
Thesis Committee: D. Linda Garcia, David Ribes, Michael R. Nelson
A Curated Conversation on Digital Inclusion held at Sheffield Hallam University January 17th 2012
Early slides individual comments, later slides summary and policy recommendations
Sharing between communities in the Smart City space is critical to scaling and success. It's also a vital pathway to creating entrepreneurial successes to fuel growth in the local innovation economy. This is my presentation on how to set up smart city projects for success and share them between communities.
5 Strategies to Avoid the Digital RiptideJohn Mancini
Keynote presentation at the ABBYY Partner Conference in Tokyo -- How can you turn digital DISRUPTION into digital TRANSFORMATION? I did a broader accompanying blog post on some of these themes here -- http://info.aiim.org/digital-landfill/3-lessons-from-japanese-trains-information-management-and-the-internet-of-things
BBC approach to accessibility & how BS8878 enables others to do the sameJonathan Hassell
Presentation given by Jonathan Hassell (Director of Hassell Inclusion and lead author of BS8878) at User Vision, Edinburgh for Word Usability Day 2011.
Covers: why and how the BBC approach accessible; how BS8878 helps organisations understand the business case for accessibility; how it provides organisations with a framework to embed accessibility in their policies and web design processes; how hassell inclusion can help you move forwards in implementing BS8878 (read the blog at http://www.hassellinclusion.com/category/bs8878/ for more help)
The world of work and employment has never changed so fast or been so complex, and it is showing no sign of slowing down. The raw technologies of communication and IT now see the simultaneous arrival of Mobile Working, BYOD, BMOB, Social Nets; Open Nets, Software, Apps and The Cloud plus Big Data. This is no accident - everything is now connected - and one technology enables/breeds another to satisfy seen and unseen demands!
Not only have we all become typists, computer operators, reprographic specialists, designers, photo takers and movie makers, editors and exceptional producers, our skill sets and abilities are about to be amplified further by artificial intelligence and robotics. Needless to say HR Departments are facing the challenge of existing workforces thinking and operating behind the wave, whilst the new entries are generally ahead of the game and prone to breaking all the rules!
CIO Transformation Live - opening keynote - reframing the digital transformat...David Terrar
My opening session for Trafford Associates CIO Transformation Live event on 20 March 2019. I introduce the digital disruption and VUCA oriented business landscape that we are dealing with and argue that we are talking too much about technology, and not enough about business outcomes and real value. I propose reframing the Digital Transformation conversation in 5 steps - Encourage good behaviour, Think holistically, Be agile, Build a social network, Create your transformation story. Check out the slides for more detail.
Connected World 2019 - chair's opening commentsDavid Terrar
My slides setting the scene for the Connected World Summit 2019 an event covering Emerging Technology for Smart Cities, Connected Places & Tomorrow's Digital World. I covered how we live in exponential times. There has never been a time of greater promise of greater peril. We are dealing with a digital enterprise wave that, with AI, 5G, IoT and Blockchain is turning in top a Digital Tsunami. We are creating data faster than ever, but watch the numbers game and make sure you get your facts and ideas straight. Just like the parable of the 6 blind men and the elephant, everyone sees the connected world topic differently.
My slides (in English) from our presentation at Styrelseakademien on Oct 21, 2019 in Stockholm at PWC offices. As part or our project, 4boards.ai, https://4boardsai.wordpress.com/.
The Theory and Action of Running a Breakthrough Collaborative: Using a Networ...Practical Playbook
The Theory and Action of Running a Breakthrough Collaborative: Using a Network-Centric Approach Framed Using Doug Engelbart's Idea of Networked Improvement Communities
Trends in Law Practice Management – Calculating the RisksNicole Garton
Presented by the CBA’s Legal Profession Assistance Conference, the Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association and the National Law Practice Management and Technology Section live via webconference.
The advantages of cloud computing, virtual or online law practices and unbundling of legal services are getting a lot of press – convenience to clients, reduced overhead expenses, remote access, and enhanced access to justice are among the benefits touted. But there are also very real and practical risks, and ethical implications, for each new tool or practice implemented. As these trends infiltrate legal practice in North America, lawyers and law firm leaders need to exercise due diligence to assess the potential risks and benefits.
Our panelists, Nicole Garton-Jones and David Bilinsky will provide a practical overview of these trends in law practice management. In doing so, they’ll provide you with tools to reduce the risk and identify the questions you need to ask yourself, as well as potential third party service providers, your insurers and your law society, when conducting your own risk-benefit analysis.
Register here: http://www.cba.org/pd/details_en.aspx?id=na_onfeb212
The technology industry is evolving in ways we never imagined. The latest trends and devices in the marketplace are not only improving and influencing our daily lives, but becoming a part of it. ITA’s Exploring the Internet of Things Summit will shed a light on the evolution of technology and what’s to come in the future.
Join us for the summit on Thursday, November 20.
See full details at illinoistech.org/internetofthings
CIM 4.0 is part of 4IR, but it is not properly understood or explained. This presentation offers some additional views and perspectives to aid students to understand the value and impact of CIM 4.0.
The world of work and employment has never changed so fast or been so complex, and it is showing no sign of slowing down. The raw technologies of communication and IT now see the simultaneous arrival of Mobile Working, BYOD, BMOB, Social Nets; Open Nets, Software, Apps and The Cloud plus Big Data. This is no accident - everything is now connected - and one technology enables/breeds another to satisfy seen and unseen demands!
Not only have we all become typists, computer operators, reprographic specialists, designers, photo takers and movie makers, editors and exceptional producers, our skill sets and abilities are about to be amplified further by artificial intelligence and robotics. Needless to say HR Departments are facing the challenge of existing workforces thinking and operating behind the wave, whilst the new entries are generally ahead of the game and prone to breaking all the rules!
CIO Transformation Live - opening keynote - reframing the digital transformat...David Terrar
My opening session for Trafford Associates CIO Transformation Live event on 20 March 2019. I introduce the digital disruption and VUCA oriented business landscape that we are dealing with and argue that we are talking too much about technology, and not enough about business outcomes and real value. I propose reframing the Digital Transformation conversation in 5 steps - Encourage good behaviour, Think holistically, Be agile, Build a social network, Create your transformation story. Check out the slides for more detail.
Connected World 2019 - chair's opening commentsDavid Terrar
My slides setting the scene for the Connected World Summit 2019 an event covering Emerging Technology for Smart Cities, Connected Places & Tomorrow's Digital World. I covered how we live in exponential times. There has never been a time of greater promise of greater peril. We are dealing with a digital enterprise wave that, with AI, 5G, IoT and Blockchain is turning in top a Digital Tsunami. We are creating data faster than ever, but watch the numbers game and make sure you get your facts and ideas straight. Just like the parable of the 6 blind men and the elephant, everyone sees the connected world topic differently.
My slides (in English) from our presentation at Styrelseakademien on Oct 21, 2019 in Stockholm at PWC offices. As part or our project, 4boards.ai, https://4boardsai.wordpress.com/.
The Theory and Action of Running a Breakthrough Collaborative: Using a Networ...Practical Playbook
The Theory and Action of Running a Breakthrough Collaborative: Using a Network-Centric Approach Framed Using Doug Engelbart's Idea of Networked Improvement Communities
Trends in Law Practice Management – Calculating the RisksNicole Garton
Presented by the CBA’s Legal Profession Assistance Conference, the Canadian Lawyers Insurance Association and the National Law Practice Management and Technology Section live via webconference.
The advantages of cloud computing, virtual or online law practices and unbundling of legal services are getting a lot of press – convenience to clients, reduced overhead expenses, remote access, and enhanced access to justice are among the benefits touted. But there are also very real and practical risks, and ethical implications, for each new tool or practice implemented. As these trends infiltrate legal practice in North America, lawyers and law firm leaders need to exercise due diligence to assess the potential risks and benefits.
Our panelists, Nicole Garton-Jones and David Bilinsky will provide a practical overview of these trends in law practice management. In doing so, they’ll provide you with tools to reduce the risk and identify the questions you need to ask yourself, as well as potential third party service providers, your insurers and your law society, when conducting your own risk-benefit analysis.
Register here: http://www.cba.org/pd/details_en.aspx?id=na_onfeb212
The technology industry is evolving in ways we never imagined. The latest trends and devices in the marketplace are not only improving and influencing our daily lives, but becoming a part of it. ITA’s Exploring the Internet of Things Summit will shed a light on the evolution of technology and what’s to come in the future.
Join us for the summit on Thursday, November 20.
See full details at illinoistech.org/internetofthings
CIM 4.0 is part of 4IR, but it is not properly understood or explained. This presentation offers some additional views and perspectives to aid students to understand the value and impact of CIM 4.0.
Don't Blog! - 2003. Headlines from the Future Blogging Backlash.Phil Wolff
I wrote these slides at one of the very first academic conferences on blogging, 2003’s Blogtalk in Wien. George W. Bush was running for reelection, 9/11 was 18 months ago, and Google had just purchased Blogger. I was just having fun but, looking back, my point was social media and society were resembling each other, changing each other, and that it would be surprising, horrifying, and very human. None of the slide’s scenarios were real that Spring. Yet so many came true in the blogosphere and the social media channels that followed.
Tip: Set this on full screen and hit autoplay. Makes for a fun screen saver.
Seven Reasons This Epic Training Should Matter To YouPhil Wolff
Here's my five minute WIIFM deck for a hypothetical Epic systems training course for nurses, doctors, and other hospital clinicians. I used this in my interview with Greythorn. All facts are notional, figures imaginary, and photos used without permission.
London data and digital masterclass for councillors slides 14-Feb-20LG Inform Plus
On 14th February 2020, the Local Government association ran a masterclass discussion day for councillors and elected members on data and digital transformation in local government. It took place in London. This is the slide set that was used to steer discussions
How a new national approach to IT procurement will help to drive innovation , interoperability and data sharing across the public sectors. Success would significantly boost public sector efforts to deliver channel shift, early intervention and workplace transformation.
Presentation deck from the Socitm Supplier Briefing that took place on the 18th June.
Socitm's New Agenda
Data the Key to Digital
Sponsor Address: A Digital Transformation Approach
Why isn't Digital Catching Fire… and what can suppliers do
Current Priorities for Local Government
The Supplier Partnership Program
Presentation deck from the Socitm Supplier Briefing that took place on the 18th June.
Socitm's New Agenda
Data the Key to Digital
Current Priorities for Local Government
Sponsor Address: A Digital Transformation Approach
Meeting the local public services challenge head on.
A Central Government tech insight and where next for Local Authorities
The Supplier Partnership Program
Luke Closs at URISA BC (Feb, 2012) talking about Innovation and Open Data, and how cities can better capture innovation created by open data communities to lower costs and provide better services.
Through the collection of best practices in Community Building, Community Engagement and Community Acceptance, CITyFiED will help you navigate towards a smarter future.
Webinar: The Third Wave of Nonprofit Technology: Technology for Social Change...TechSoup
Sam Chenkin discuss the changing nature of technology within nonprofit organizations. Using technology to be efficient is no longer enough to stay relevant as a nonprofit. Even using data effectively is old news. Today, nonprofits are expected to “disrupt” social ills through the network effects and scale of technology.
This event explains this trend, its opportunities, and its dangers. We talk about how the commodification of data storage, analytics, and AI is making software development a compelling option for nonprofits. And we talk about how your nonprofit can take an idea from inception through to the creation of a website or app.
Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) Presentationnvpradhan
The Digital Transportation Exchange (DTE) would connect citizens, businesses, state and local governments, industry, entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors though a public private partnership like never before—creating a thriving marketplace for transportation solutions.
Cary Technology Task Force (TTF) Final Report December 2012Ian Henshaw
Mission Statement
Determine how the Town’s use of technology services can better serve its citizens. Specifically, the TTF shall review, evaluate, and prioritize new and emerging technologies that will facilitate better engagement, citizen outreach, and service delivery by increasing involvement and lowering costs, with the overall goal of making it easier for citizens to communicate with the Town and consume available information.
Former and current telecentre.org executive directors present the challenges and opportunities for the telecentre movement in the rapidly changing environment of ICT4D.
Colombia's Colnodo has a strong network of partnerships that allow the organization to diversificate, increase its impact and leverage different technologies. Colnodo's leadership provides a detail explanation of the model, along with recommendations for implementation.
Similar to Proposal: A new City of Oakland Technology Commission (20)
Do product managers need a code of ethics? What would a code do? How would it affect the profession? Why should we adopt it? What should it include? What's next?
14 OpenOakland Leadership Hacks for 2015Phil Wolff
How do you lead software teams where everyone is a volunteer, can't commit for long periods, and new people join all the time? Here are 14 leaderships hacks we use at http://OpenOakland.org at our civic hack nights. We build apps that make the lives of Oaklanders better and help Oakland City Hall innovate. Over pizza.
We're starting our 2014 strategy conversations for the local #OpenOakland Code for America volunteer brigade. Here are a few talking points for how to prioritize our strategy offsite.
Code for America Brigade volunteers consider thousands of projects for local civic engagement and innovation apps; we build only a handful in each city. How can we choose better? A little intention could dramatically improve the quality of our project portfolios. I propose we score proposals across four dimensions:
- The value our products will produce. (More users, more usage, building capacity, leaving infrastructure behind)
- Risks of the journey (taking the right level of risks around customer clarity, effort & cost, tech difficulty, political risk)
- Alignment with our values
- Stakeholders engaged and affected
So Your Product Is Going To Die. Here's What Happens Next. Phil Wolff
Here's my walk-through of the generic product retirement project. Set up signals, choose death (or life), choose the shape of the project (how you're going to dispose of the body), plan, prepare, cutover, respond, and wrap things up.
The Things I Don't Know about Product Retirement Could Fill A Slide DeckPhil Wolff
My Ignorance On Display as a Research Agenda. There are millions of consumer apps to kill in the next few years. Perhaps that many enterprise apps too. We do a horrible job of shutting down systems well. It's typically a frenetic, last second, disorganized, incomplete, bridge-burning, costly, career limiting exercise. We don't talk about it and we have little data. I want to start a conversation about product death. In this deck I'm showing how little I know by asking you how to lead product retirement projects, how to design them, current practices, which forces drive success and which risks induce failure.
Personal Data Economy Action Plan - Get Smart, Get Connected, Get ProofPhil Wolff
The is a rough draft curriculum unit for enterprise pros interested in using personal data, VRM, user-centric digital identity, and privacy to improve operations. The focus is on what to do after the class.
The Cloud Needs An Operating System – Philip J. WindleyPhil Wolff
Because it allows you to act as a peer, a CloudOS orchestrates and coordinates online interactions, enables cooperating networks of products and services, supports intention-driven automation.
Johannes Ernst introduces the first Personal Clouds Community GatheringPhil Wolff
In San Francisco, 29 January 2013, one hundred people came together to talk about personal clouds. Johannes Ernst explained how personal clouds are to big web companies what personal computers were to mainframes. They both gave more personal control over terms, apps, and data.
Rough deck for a flash talk for personal cloud designers, entrepreneurs, and investors at http://personalcloud1.eventbrite.com/. The PC-era protections of a personal computer you can hold in your hands or lock up in your home are gone as we move our software and data to personal clouds. We're renting instead of owning but we have no tenant protections. We should aspire to the trust placed on the relationship between doctors and patients, priests and penitents, lawyers and clients, and accountants and trustees. A fiduciary duty puts the "customer" first, even if it means harm to the service provider.
22 Ways Skype's Digital Identity System SucksPhil Wolff
Using Skype as an example, I deconstruct ways in which its user identity system doesn't fit the ways people think about themselves, present themselves in public, or interact in real life.
#Portability4Trust - Personal Data Portability for Trust FrameworksPhil Wolff
We're building on our Portability Policy work to make data portability standards and practices available in a form that the new trust frameworks can use.
The new landscape of realtime conversation is here. Skype, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, TokBox, Voxeo, Twilio and many others have divergent models. This talk lists some of the opportunities for convergence and interop, the benefits to operators, and questions about preconditions for this dialog.
The time frames for responding to the real time web are so short we need new tools to beat the clock. We need the Anticipatory Web. Predictive analytics are a start but we must use available technologies to act preemptively, faster than instantly. Think Thiotimoline fast.
role of women and girls in various terror groupssadiakorobi2
Women have three distinct types of involvement: direct involvement in terrorist acts; enabling of others to commit such acts; and facilitating the disengagement of others from violent or extremist groups.
01062024_First India Newspaper Jaipur.pdfFIRST INDIA
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हम आग्रह करते हैं कि जो भी सत्ता में आए, वह संविधान का पालन करे, उसकी रक्षा करे और उसे बनाए रखे।" प्रस्ताव में कुल तीन प्रमुख हस्तक्षेप और उनके तंत्र भी प्रस्तुत किए गए। पहला हस्तक्षेप स्वतंत्र मीडिया को प्रोत्साहित करके, वास्तविकता पर आधारित काउंटर नैरेटिव का निर्माण करके और सत्तारूढ़ सरकार द्वारा नियोजित मनोवैज्ञानिक हेरफेर की रणनीति का मुकाबला करके लोगों द्वारा निर्धारित कथा को बनाए रखना और उस पर कार्यकरना था।
In a May 9, 2024 paper, Juri Opitz from the University of Zurich, along with Shira Wein and Nathan Schneider form Georgetown University, discussed the importance of linguistic expertise in natural language processing (NLP) in an era dominated by large language models (LLMs).
The authors explained that while machine translation (MT) previously relied heavily on linguists, the landscape has shifted. “Linguistics is no longer front and center in the way we build NLP systems,” they said. With the emergence of LLMs, which can generate fluent text without the need for specialized modules to handle grammar or semantic coherence, the need for linguistic expertise in NLP is being questioned.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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Find Latest India News and Breaking News these days from India on Politics, Business, Entertainment, Technology, Sports, Lifestyle and Coronavirus News in India and the world over that you can't miss. For real time update Visit our social media handle. Read First India NewsPaper in your morning replace. Visit First India.
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6. Let’s have an Oakland…
Where the City wins awards for
innovation, for technology leadership that
make Oakland a better place to raise kids
and find well paying work
7. An Oakland Technology
Commission can help us
• Slash our backlog of tech projects
• Apply our telecom permitting power
• Attract tech talent and business
• Narrow our digital divide
• Boost our buying power
• Increase Oaklander privacy & control over
personal data.
8. Let’s start a
Tech Commission!
Many of our challenges have causes and solutions
rooted in technology
9. Oakland’s Facing…
Technical Debt
Missed IT
opportunities,
risks, & costs
Wasted Permitting Power
Oakland Not In Silicon Valley
Fortress Behavior
Tech Law Overwhelm
Offline Oaklanders
10. Growing Technical Debt
Oakland has
a huge, growing
“technical debt”
A long list of work deferred,
bugs to fix, systems to upgrade
or retire, risks to be secured,
paper to be digitized, workflows
to be automated, apps to be
built, staff to be trained.
11. Growing Technical Debt
Failure to work
off tech debt
means broken
systems, stalled
innovation,
more liability,
less service
12. Growing Technical Debt
• We don’t know whether this is
hugely bad or apocalyptically bad.
The scope of these problems, and the
costs for digging out, are still
incompletely measured or prioritized.
• No plan to pay down this debt.
14. Wasted Permitting Power.
Our power comes through permitting
for hardware installation and
maintenance.
The City gives Telephone companies,
Internet service providers, and Cable
companies permission to operate.
15. Wasted Permitting Power.
We negotiate with Comcast and AT&T
on our own once ever four to six
years
They have professional teams who
do these deals daily all over the
country, leaving us at a disadvantage.
16. Wasted Permitting Power.
Why Don’t We Use Our Power?
Public interests have not been turned
into policy, an agenda.
Our negotiators have not been
directed to seek agenda goals
17. Wasted Permitting Power.
A generation ago we negotiated for
public access channels and studios
from cable companies in exchange
for exclusive contracts.
19. Our tech commission could…
Lobby carriers to lay live fiber every
time the streets are opened, every time
a home is connected, to improve our
economy.
20. Our tech commission could…
Negotiate increased bandwidth in
public libraries to improve education.
21. Our tech commission could…
Get cheap smart phones to support
our community services.
22. Our tech commission could…
Demand more transparency in the
areas of personal privacy and
personal control over consumer data.
23. Our tech commission could…
Contract reports to assure every
neighborhood of our community has the
communication capacity to assure
economic development.
24. Our tech commission could…
Ensure carriers can
operate during and
after earthquakes
and other disasters,
saving lives and
speeding recovery.
25. Barely a Tech Town
in Silicon Valley
Oakland can be a
more attractive
place for big and
small tech
companies to
operate.
The City
government does
a weak job at
selling Oakland to
tech
communities.
26. Oakland Acts Like An Island
We don't pool our technology
purchases, coordinate our contract
negotiations, or cooperate in our
tech advocacy with other Bay Area
governments and agencies.
27. Technology Law is
Overwhelming
• Sacramento and D.C. make complex
new laws and new regulations
affecting the City, and the companies
and employees working here.
• The City isn't addressing this in its
lobbying, in its public advocacy, or in
its policy positions.
28. Offline Constituents
Many Oaklanders still have very
limited access to the Internet at
home, at work, or in their mobiles.
This hurts the City's ability to
automate without cutting off those
who need services the most.
30. The TC’s Year Zero Agenda
1. Listen
2. Plan
3. Document/Cut Technical Debt
4. Tap Talent
31. Listen.
The TC would listen to local tech
leaders, advocates, and community
members to form a tech agenda that
supports Oakland.
32. Listen.
• Year One Goal: Tech policy agenda.
• Year One Goal: Tested a process for
turning tech community ideas into
an actionable policy agenda.
33. Listen.
Cooperation. The TC would promote
coordination with other public sector
groups and NGOs to improve our
negotiation, advocacy, and buying
power.
34. Listen.
Year One Goal: Quarterly meeting
with counterparts from ABAG and
other agency neighbors.
35. Plan.
The TC would be the agent of our City's
broad interests regarding permitting for
mobile and wireless phone and Internet
providers and for cable companies.
The TC would advise, review, and sign off
on Planning Department and Planning
Commission activity in this area.
36. Plan.
Year One Goal:
Compile the calendar of contract
renewals, with discussion points and
proposed partnerships for each.
37. Technical Debt.
The TC would review and report on
the City's state of technical debt and
annual progress.
39. Technical Debt.
Tech City. The TC would advise the
Mayor and City Council on economic
development related to high tech.
40. Technical Debt.
Year One Goal: Add a Tech City
component to the City's business
recruiting activity.
41. Tapping Talent.
The TC would recruit IT professionals
from big Oakland companies and
startups to advise and support City IT
staff.
42. Tapping Talent.
Year One Goal: A pool of tech
volunteers connected with their City
counterparts on named projects, and
a system for coordinating this
activity.
44. Q. How does the City create
a new commission?
• What's the workflow and checklist?
• Who signs off?
45. Q. Charter?
• Assuming it needs a charter, how
would we draft a charter that's
useful? What's missing from this
proposal?
46. Q. Duplication of Effort?
• How can we verify these challenges
aren't being well-addressed
elsewhere?
47. Q. Buy-in?
• Which City stakeholders' buy-in
would help the TC's creation and
chances of success?
• Whose support in Oakland's tech
community would help this
succeed?
48. Q. Team composition?
• What blend of experience, attitudes,
talents, and affiliations could make
an effective TC?
50. Q. Operations?
• How would the TC operate,
assuming commissioners work no
more than an hour or two weekly?
• Dedicated staff? Staff seconded
from other City departments?
Volunteers?
51. Q. Scope?
• What limits or constraints would be
reasonable to apply to the TC?
• What risks or threats to the TC's success
might we plan for and mitigate?
• What City, county, and California laws,
rules, and regulations apply to the conduct
of a city commission?
52. Q. Money?
• What would a first-year TC budget
look like?
• How could we fund the TC?
• Does every City commission come
with some overhead charges?
54. Action
• Contribute to the proposal’s OaklandWiki
page…
http://oaklandwiki.org/Technology_Commission_Proposal
• Join the Open Oakland brigade of Code for
America (meets Tuesday nights at City
Hall)
http://www.meetup.com/OpenOakland/
http://twitter.com/openoakland
• Talk with Phil Wolff…