OakX - Eddie Tejada/Code for America

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3. New Orleans
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4. The Question (and Opportunity!)
How can governments
create new channels of
communication with
citizens without
overwhelming city
staff?
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5. What we have now: an imperfect system
City Hall
The Public
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6. Example 1:
New Orleans &
blighted property
questions
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7. Our New Orleans Code for America Residency, by
the numbers:
◦ 4 Fellows
◦ 35 days
◦ Over 70 meetings
◦ 14 neighborhood and community groups
◦ 5 local tech groups
◦ 10 City departments
◦ 22 distinct types of data sources identified
◦ 50 hackathon attendees
◦ 4 products built in 10 hours
◦ 120 Tweets using hashtag #cfaNOLA
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8. Citizens can’t get an answer to
simple question:
When will a blighted
house be demolished?
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9. In response citizens created a
range of systems
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11. Example 2:
New York City’s
Freedom of
Information Act
(FOIA)
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13. Example 3:
Public Feedback on
Federal Regulations
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15. What do all these
projects have in
common?
Data-driven feedback systems
that consider the needs of
communities and gov. officials
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16. Why is this
important?
City Hall
The Public
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17. Opportunities for
Oakland
Come to
Code for Oakland!
July 21, 2012
9am- 5pm
Kaiser Center
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18. Thank You!
Eddie Tejeda
@eddietejeda
eddie@codeforamerica.org
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