1. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT
Government Innovation
-not an oxymoron
James Kauth
MN.IT Services
Thursday, January 30
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2. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT
Agenda
• What is it?
• Big “E” versus little “e”
• What next?
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3. Enterprise IT is tuned for operational efficiency, not IT
effectiveness for business
By design IT consolidation shines light at the end of the
tunnel for agency business
I’m knocking on doors to find opportunities to connect
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4. We need to
get to here
We are
here
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6. Social contract
Mutual protection based on agreed-upon rules
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
Safety
Enable the people to live in safety and happiness
-Thomas Jefferson
Property
“Government has no other end than preservation of property”
-John Locke
Progress
“…to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.”
-Albert Einstein
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7. Invention - create something new
Innovation - do something different
Improvement - do the same things
better (reengineer)
“The execution of new ideas that create sustainable, business value.”
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8. “Making changes to something established by introducing
something better and, as a consequence, new” -Wikipedia
The most successful businesses rely on collaborative
social ideation to innovate
Exaptation: a trait evolves to serve a particular function,
but subsequently it may come to serve another.
“Chance favors the connected mind”
-Steven Johnson
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9. Common thread: both are at their best with high social
engagement
How does government increase connectivity to
“incubate” the “slow hunches”?
When we realize that:
Government is a business in a competitive market
Citizens are our key stakeholders
Data is a strategic asset
Open access to public government data
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11. OSS is hosting an open data jam “Capitol Code”
Supporting International Open Data Day
Feb 22, 2014 event at CoCo: sign up on EventBrite.com
A developing model for a government-business partnership contract
28 states leveraging G2B data transaction revenue sharing
Rapid resource access to deploy new IT business services
Enterprise Data Governance
Defined: principles, goals, and focus areas
A long road, but strong support and active participation
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12. Why it’s needed:
Intra-agency enterprise data governance
Inter-agency Enterprise data governance
Single use inter-agency data sharing agreements
Inconsistent naming conventions, data models, formats
Costly redundant data collection, storage and management
Data confidence and integrity
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13. Call to action:
Data Governance White Paper delivered to Governor’s office, Oct 2013
Driven by State CIO: “IT can enable, but doesn’t own the data”
Co-author working group:
State Demographer
MN Housing CIO
Information Policy Analysis (IPAD)
Chief GIS Officer of MNGeo
MN.IT Enterprise Data Architect
Dept. of Education CIO
MN.IT Director of Innovation
Result: Governor’s Chief of Staff support
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14. Chief sponsor identified:
Spencer Cronk, Commissioner, Department of Administration
Member list (growing):
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Mona Dohman, Commissioner, Department of Public Safety
Dr. Edward Ehlinger, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Health
Carolyn Parnell, Commissioner, MN.IT Services
Larry Pogemiller, Director, Office of Higher Education
John Linc Stine, Commissioner, Pollution Control Agency
Mary Tingerthal, Commissioner, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
Dave Schad, Deputy Commissioner, Department of Natural Resources
Tim Henkel, Assistant Commissioner, Department of Transportation
Blake Chaffee and Deb Serum, Department of Employment and Economic
Development
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15. Governance model
Coordination, legislation, roles & responsibilities
Value proposition/cost savings
Entrepreneurship, reduce redundancy
Principles
Sustainability, data integrity, accessibility
Culture
Data as an asset
Data Mapping
Inventory, domains, authoritative sources
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17. New focus: publish public data online
Open Public Data: $3 - $5 trillion potential!
-McKinsey Global Institute report, Oct 2013
Open public data is the natural resource of government
innovation
“…government of the people, by the people, for the
people…” –Lincoln, 1863
By a chosen few or maybe by the masses?
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18. There are more cell phones than people in the US
57% of people talk online more than in real life
15% of search queries are ones that Google has NEVER seen
before
Crowd-funding raised $5.1B in donations for campaigns in 2013
Social media is multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-generational
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20. A yearlong process of public housing record-seeking
Tracked down 580 unscrupulous properties in Minneapolis
Linked to known felons, fraudsters, Ponzi schemers, equity
strippers, slumlords
City and county public record data stored electronically:
Only available at government offices
Copies by print only $1 per page
$1,200 in printing fees
All trying to aid his community as an unpaid citizen
Full story at tonywebster.com
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21. Government open data:
Government-controlled National Weather Service data creates $1.5B industry
City of Chicago has 1,000 feeds of automated and machine-readable open
datasets
New York City tree database mashed up with public accident records
SLDS educational data sharing to increase graduation rates
B2B open data:
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Climate Corp. sold for $1B. Mash-up soil data with weather data for crop mgmt
Price transparency across markets increases competition
Improve products and processes
Benchmarking data increases awareness and improvements
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22. Privacy and security
Data governance discipline, data integrity
Open data disclaimers, opt-in sharing, click agreements
Citizens aren’t inherently bad, with Tony Webster’s & $5B in annual donations
Technical capability/cost to make data available
Tap the business partnership model –who wants your data?
Leverage new skills and new priorities from IT consolidation
Secure APIs, controlled access to data
Lost revenue from data sales
Save time and $ fulfilling perpetual data requests
McKinsey: $3T-$5T in potential revenue from government open data
Part of a system: local loss but new profits + taxes = more general fund $
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23. Connection opportunities abound
Dept of Revenue launching idea campaign
Cities, counties, municipalities, nonprofits, foundations, businesses alike
Federal data.gov site has over 90,000 public data sets available
Local government: success story in community connectedness
State-local gov’t needs tighter innovation integration
Activity everywhere, we’re behind but catching on!
Some nearby examples:
Forever St. Paul Challenge
1,000 ideas submitted, $1M prize
Winner: Tracy Sides –a friend and a life changing outcome for her
Visualizing Neighborhoods
U of M CURA Hackathon
Bus route apps, central corridor jobs, community greenspace mapping
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