Andrew Krzmarzick is an educator turned community manager who works for GovLoop, a knowledge network for 60,000 government innovators. He is traveling from Chicago to Raleigh to share ideas about CityCamps, hackathons, using social media in emergencies, and the LocalWiki project. At each stop, he facilitates discussions to help communities replicate leading practices and harness the power of citizens who want to make things better.

1. Andrew Krzmarzick, GovLoop

2. Reality?
No No
No
What do you do when your
hands are tied behind your back?

3. Relief?
Innovators: Rabble Rousers:
(the people who want to (the people who are
experiment / explore new most, uh, vocal in
approaches to old problems) pushing for progress)
Hackers:
(the impatient people
who take matters into
their own hands)
How do you harness the power of people
who just want to make things better?

4. Vision
Government: Citizens:
Leverage the town’s Provide a place to
energy and talent present their problems
(beyond your time and effort) (and get them solved)
Vendors:
Find a forum to
show their smarts
(and build new business)
Is there a virtuous cycle
that you can create in your city?

5. Why I’m Here
You: Me:
innovators looking for Educator turned
ideas and examples community manager
GovLoop:
knowledge network
for 60,000
government innovators
How can you replicate leading
practices more quickly?

6. Why You’re Here
• CityCamp: Road Trip from Chicago, IL to Raleigh, NC (Part I)
• Hackathons: Brilliance in Baltimore, MD
• Social Web: Mom-Daughter Tornado Turnaround in Joplin, MO
• LocalWiki: Cross-Country from Davis, CA to Raleigh (Part II)

7. CityCamp

9. Stimulate, Participate,
Collaborate, Repeat
Each City Camp has 4 main goals:
1. Bring together local government officials, municipal employees,
experts, programmers, designers, citizens and journalists to share
perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live
2. Create and maintain patterns for using the Web to facilitate local
government transparency and effective local governance
3. Foster communities of practice and advocacy on the role of the Web,
mobile communication, online information, and open data in cities
4. Create outcomes that participants will act upon after the event is
over

10. It's an un-conference...
Some rights reserved by acnatta
...there are couches.
Some rights reserved by wrkng

11. CityCamp started in Chicago in January 2010

12. 22
The number of cities that have held a
CityCamp
900*
Roughly the number of people who
attended CityCamps in 2010. (About
twice as many registered, which means
they at least visited our pages.)
519
The combined number of members in
CityCamp forum at e-democracy and
groupat GovLoop.
1,090 Facebook fans
879
Posts in the forum
*(as of 4/26/2011)

13. Open Source
Brand

14. http://citycamp.govfresh.com/start-a-camp/#web

15. http://citycamp.govfresh.com/start-a-camp/
START
A
CAMP

16. #1
Join
the
Community.
Introduce
Yourself.

17. #2
Fill
out
this Form.
Get a
web site.

18. #3 Host a Meet Up

19. #4
Plan
your
Camp

20. #5
CAMP!

21. #6
REPEAT!

48. Talk Among Yourselves
• What do you think of the CityCamp concept?
• How could it benefit your community?
• Are there people who would latch on to this idea?
• How could it save you time and money?

49. Hackat hons
Peopl e
I deas
+
Tech
Fun

50. A hackat hon i s . . .
• an event where small teams design,
create, & demo a project
within a short timeframe
• usually tech-focused,
but not always

51. To you, B t i m i s . .
al ore
.

52. B i t ’s m
ut uch m e!
or

53. WB LA
ES M
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56. A B es
rt yt
• Hosted & designed by the
Walters Art Museum
• Intended to bring people into
the museum & get staff out
• Built programs & applications
inspired by art or to address
museum-specific challenges

57. The Creat i ons
•Applications that
– let visitors view an overlay of how
artwork looked at its time of
creation
– map the Walters museum & connect
visitors with information on the
museum website
– provide more context to the artwork
– let visitors leave a virtual note
associated with artwork
– use badges & games to engage
students
•Three-dimensional plastic prints of the
Walters’ artwork
•API that provides access to the collection
information
•Mobile-friendly website based on Google
Floorplans

58. The O com
ut es
• People who hadn’t
been to the museum
came to the museum
& seem likely to come
back
• Staff became more
excited about
technology and its
possibilities

59. • http://www.flickr.com/photos/swaimsketching/6989485446/sizes/o/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/ralphhogaboom/4639108371/sizes/l/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lungstruck/4431678091/sizes/o/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/bnorthern/106094455/sizes/o/
• http://davetroy.com/docs/baltimore20120624.jpg
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/3461160785/sizes/l/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/krapow/5180940668/sizes/l/

60. Talk Among Yourselves
• What do you think of Hackathons?
• How could it benefit your community?
• Are there people who would latch on to this idea?
• How could it save you time and money?

62. On May 22, 2011 at 5:41 p.m.
an EF-5 Tornado Hit Joplin Missouri
• 161 lives lost and more than 1,000 Wounded
• Over 7,500 Homes and 530 Businesses decimated
• 28 Churches and several schools were either damaged
or destroyed
• Half of Joplin’s Medical infrastructure destroyed
• 1/3 of the city affected
• As of 5/22/12 over 130, 000 Volunteers have come to
Joplin’s aid

66. St. John’s
Hospital

70. It was all about Crowdsourcing
• Crowdmap
• Google documents and spreadsheets (now Google Drive)
• Dashboard type website
• Gmail
• Google Maps
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Text Messaging/ SMS
• The Telephone!
• Google Voice
• Facetime
• Google Alerts

71. It’s still all about Crowdsourcing
Recovers.org
Bottlenose
Google.org
Wikis
Flickr/ Instagram

74. http://extension.missouri.edu/greene/documents/
PlansReports/using%20social%20media%20in%20
disasters.pdf
Joelclark.com
Recovers.org

76. Talk Among Yourselves
• How can you empower citizens for emergency
response?
• Do these things just happen or can you “plan”
for your it?

77. The LocalWiki Project
NAGW, 2012-9-11

78. I'm Philip!
Email me!
philip@localwiki.orgTwitter-ize
me! @philipn

80. So much knowledge lost

81. We brainstormed

85. Today it's used for..

115. Pepperspray-related pages had
25,000
Visitors
700
Edits about the incident
100
Contributors
in one week.

116. Current statistics
 Every day 1 in 6 residents visits
 Every week roughly half the residents
 Every month nearly everyone in Davis
 18k contributed, city population is 60k

117. The question:
How can we replicate this?
How can we improve on this?

118. www.localwiki.org

119. The open-source, open-content effort to
share the world's local knowledge

120. A new kind of wiki software designed, from the
ground up, for local communities

121. Technology needs
 Ease of use above all
 Locally-oriented – a sense of place
 Adapted to communities' usage

122. Atomic unit: the page

124. Anyone can edit a page and
add what they know.

126. When anyone can edit, it's essential to be
able to know what's changed

128. Mapping

129. Pages can have maps

131. And we can edit the map
just like we edit a page

136. Focus on local means we can do cool stuff

144. ..tons more to come

145. Focus communities

146. “This could only work in Davis, California”

153. h

159. LocalWiki network is spreading

169. Get involved!
localwiki.org
guide.localwiki.org

170. Questions
..and please be in touch!
I'm philip@localwiki.org

171. trianglewiki.org
A website about the Triangle Region (NC)
that anyone can edit.
Reid Serozi
reid@serozi.com
@reidserozi

172. OLD SCHOOL TRIANGLE WIKI 2006 - 2007

173. Triangle Wiki is part of an open-
content, open-source effort to share the
world's local knowledge.
http://localwiki.org/

174. Triangle Wiki runs on an open source
platform called LocalWiki.
http://localwiki.org/

175. CityCamp Raleigh Project
Raleigh citizens creating
solutions for open government.

176. Brainstorming sessions driven by
citizens were common in the
beginning.

177. Fall 2011:
Invitation only for project
members and subject leaders
to contribute content.
February 2012:
Soft launch dubbed “Triangle
Wiki Day”.
“There is growing momentum
to open the Triangle Wiki to
everyone. We need to create
1000 wiki pages by March 14th
[2012]…”
https://trianglewiki.org/Wiki_Community/Launch_press_release

179. With over 1,000 pages and a thriving
community, the Triangle Wiki officially
launched on March 14th 2012.

180. Content growth continues and new
contributors join.

181. Wiki organizers are engaging with
local editors and visitors using social
media and e-newsletters.

182. Open Content is priceless
and valuable.
"Almost every final CityCamp idea had
incorporated a stream of content
from Triangle Wiki," - CityCamp Organizer

183. Partnerships are developing with local
government, organizations, Gov 2.0
solutions and commercial start-ups.
http://localwiki.org/blog/2012/aug/31/localwiki-api-released/

184. http://www.raleighnc.gov/open

185. http://www.townofcary.org/Town_Council/Special_Committees/Technology_Task_Force.htm

186. City website is the authority.
The local wiki is the citizen's version.

187. Add existing content from the City Public
Affairs Department to the wiki.

188. Help us reach our
epic goal: 1000
pages by March
14.
All hands on deck!
The wiki is now
open to the public
after a very
successful soft
launch on Triangle
Wiki Day.

189. New Reality
http://www.hasadna.org.il/en/our-projects/open-budget/
Citizens are building your websites:
are you ready work with them?

190. New Reality
Andrew@GovLoop.com
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202-352-1806
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