This document provides information about Jennifer Pahlka and her work with Code for America. It discusses their goal of making government work better through civic technology and open data. It highlights some of their projects like developing apps to improve access to neighborhood data and government services. The document promotes their approach of sharing software and practices to set higher standards for digital government interfaces.

1. Jennifer Pahlka

2. @pahlkadot
jen@codeforamerica.org

3. Making government work better for everyone with
the people and power of the web

4. What you don’t need:
MORE TECHNOLOGY
What you do need:
A DIFFERENT APPROACH

5. Peace Corps for Geeks

6. 2012 Fellows

7. 2012 Cities

18. access

22. Neighborhood data collection,
the old way...

28. Shareable software. Shareable practices.

29. It’s not about the apps.

30. Interfaces to government can be
simple, beautiful and easy to use.

31. Better, faster and cheaper.

32. Show what’s possible and set a
higher bar.

33. Culture trumps strategy

34. “They were mysterious
strangers who came and taught
the city’s staff that they had the
magic in them all along.”
-Jeff Friedman

35. What now?

36. MONUM
Mayor’s Office of New Urban
Mechanics
codeforamerica.org/monum/

37. 2014 Fellowship

38. The Community is the Capacity:
Work with your Brigade

39. Above all:
find, activate, support, and
connect your change agents

40. Join the conspiracy
Code for America Summit:
summit.codeforamerica.org
jen@codeforamerica.org

41. “…what good
governance and good
society look like are
now inextricably linked
to the digital.”
- Tom Steinberg

42. Join the conspiracy
Code for America Summit:
summit.codeforamerica.org
jen@codeforamerica.org

43. Aneesh Chopra

44. Digital Infrastructure to Spur Productivity
Wireless, “Gig” Networks Key to Unlock Future Growth
Cloud Computing and Mobility
Unlock Potential
National Wireless Initiative (Wi3) US-Ignite
Marquette, MI Cleveland, OH
Source:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/10/president-national-wireless-initiative-we-re-going-have-our-game-marquette
; “A Dozen Facts About Innovation,” Hamilton Project, August 2011

45. Permitting Costs Inhibit Solar Growth
We are Within Reach of $1 a watt cost by 2020
“Race to the Rooftop” “Crowdfunding” Solar Projects
$12.5M Competition to Solar Mosaic
Lower Costs
Asian Resource Center (Oakland, CA)
raised $100K from 134 investors to
Competition designed to address $1BN install solar; will save $100,000 in
“hidden tax” through permitting costs energy bills; awarded Dept Energy
incubator grant
Source: http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/FINAL_DECISION/140369.htm; Cleanweb Hackathon, Jan 22nd, 2012

46. Want to Solve Food Deserts through Innovation?
Sanofi US Diabetes and Maya Seeking “Alpha” Partners
# Households no car & > 1 mi to store, 2006
Let’s build a
Calling all Mayors! Send a note
conveying your passion to solve
Low-income preschool obesity rate, 2009
this problem to
foodoasis@maya.com