Elements of building a civic tech ecosystem in your city

1. Data in the City of Angels:
Building an Open Data Community
@abhinemani

2. 1) Focus on the user.

3. Original data.lacity.org

4. data.lacity.org

5. 50% -> 5%
STICKING AROUND.Measuring the change in the bounce rate on data.lacity.org
before and after the redesign of the homepage.
55 50 49
5 4
LATE JAN EARLYFEB MID FEB LATE FEB EARLYMARCH

6. prototype.datala.mobi

7. 2) Change your
citizens’ experience

12. @ABHINEMANI
Let’s make all apps more civic.

13. 3) Enable a community

14. a) Create a place where good people
can work on good problems.

15. b) Build an identity.

16. DATA.LACITY.ORG
c)Then challenge them to get
something done.

17. Largelots.org

18. Answers.oaklandnet.com

19. LOS ANGELES TIMES
#techLA Competition:
After 24 hours of coding, a team that created an
application to efficiently deliver supplies to homeless
shelters took home the top prize…
"One more thing," said [one winner],
"We're all in high school."

20. 4) Build & Engage
Institutions

21. Mayor’s Dashboard

22. Spreadsheet Powered by Google Docs

23. Smart Chicago Collaborative

24. Compiler.LA: New CivicTech Organization

25. CityGrows.LA

26. CAPITAL STEPPING UP.

27. MCKINSEY
EconomicValue of Open Data,
Industries Combined:
$3Trillion

28. govlab.com/opendata500

29. Don’t just open data.
Create friction with it.
@abhinemani

30. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
“..as soon as they have found one another out,
they combine.
From that moment they are no longer isolated men,
but a power seen from afar,
whose actions serve for an example and whose
language is listened to.”