Presentation by P.K. Agarwal, Director of California's Department of Technology Services (DTS) at the Executive Leadership Conference in October 2009.

1. P.K. Agarwal, CTO, California

2. Agenda
• We The People
– The Business of Elections
– Civic Engagement
– Transparency
• Technology Looking Glass
– Cloud Computing
– Mobility
– Green
• New Markets
• Wrap Up

3. 2008

7. Do You Tweet?
TLDNR
Too Long, Did Not Read

8. The Medium is the Message
The form of a message (print, visual,
musical, etc.) determines the ways in
which that message will be perceived.
Marshall McLuhan

9. The Medium is the Message
Communication Media, such as radio,
television, films, and computers have
far-reaching sociological, aesthetic, and
philosophical consequences, that it
alters the ways we experience the world.

10. Radio Movies
TV Internet

13. Movies

16. First Televised Debate:
Kennedy-Nixon 1960

18. Obama
And
The
Internet

19. Number of
Governments in US:
85,000
Number of Elected
Officials: 511,000
US Census

20. Market Size Estimate: Elections
511,000 x $10,000 = $5.1billion
(over 4 Years)

21. Civic
Engagement

23. Three Models
• Town Square
– Getting the Whole Community Engaged
• Front Porch
– Involving the Neighborhood
• ePetitions

25. White House Open
for Questions
March 2009

26. Front Porch

29. June 2009

30. ePetitions

32. To: President-Elect Obama
Your good friend Quincy
Jones said: "...next
conversation I have with
President Obama is to beg
for a Secretary of Arts."
The Undersigned

35. C-SPAN

38. Two Models of Transparency
• “Show me my Money”
– Financial Accountability (The Check Book)
• Data to the People
– Open Government

42. Data.gov

44. Stage Three
Web 2.0 External
We The People
Internet
eGovernment
Computing
Back Office Internal

45. Agenda
• We The People
– The Business of Elections
– Civic Engagement
– Transparency
• Technology Looking Glass
– Mobility
– Cloud Computing
– Green
• New Markets
• Wrap Up

46. Mobility

47. Just the Numbers
• Smart Phones 2008: 173 Million
• Smart Phones 2009: 192 Million (est.)
http://mobiledevdesign.com/software_news/smart-phone-
growth-despite-poor-econ-0304

48. April 23, 2009

50. Cloud
Computing
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieledpictures/2570791174/

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about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zingersb/829344628/"><a rel="cc:attributionURL"

52. IT is in Fuel Business?
Energy
Efficiency
The 5th Fuel
Other 4: Petroleum, Coal, Nuclear, Alternative

53. New Markets
• Elections
• Civic Engagement
• Transparency
• Digital Textbooks
• Broadband Mapping
• Smart Grid
• Health IT

54. Government IT Spend:
$148 billion
16% of Total IT Spend
2009 Figures

55. Stimulus $ Est. 85 Billion

56. IT and Economic Development
Electronic Health $20 billion
Records
Smart Grid $4.5 billion
Broadband $7.2 billion
Jobs Created in the First Year:
~900,000
Total Jobs Lost Since Dec. 07:
6.9 million
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/technology/26techjobs.html
https://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/CommChong/post/Recovery-Act-Funds-for-Smart-Grid.aspx
http://www.whydom.com/2009/02/19/the-recovery-act-delivers-broadband-growth
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

57. PK’s Prognostication
• A New Culture in Government
• 3rd Stage Transition 2008-2012
• Commoditization of Technology
IaaS; PaaS; SaaS
3rd stage is all Saas
Open Source
• From Web to Mobile Web
• Data.gov as economic development

58. Agenda
• We The People
– The Business of Elections
– Civic Engagement
– Transparency
• Technology Looking Glass
– Cloud Computing
– Mobility
– Green
• New Markets
• Wrap Up

59. America makes prodigious mistakes,
America has colossal faults, but one thing
cannot be denied: America is always on
the move. She may be going to Hell, of
course, but at least she isn't standing still.
~e.e. cummings

60. THE END