Conference imparted on October Monday 5, 2015 at the Civic Engagement Summit. University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA). Civic Tech international landscape - what is being done to advance the smart cities agenda, citizen engagement in the digital age, the advent of ubiquitous technologies, and the impact of technology innovation in democracy

1. Civic Tech: The Future of Civic
Engagement and Technology Innovation
José Alberto Gómez Isassi
Researcher at the University Autonomous
of Tamaulipas
CCO @cityflag_
www.cityflag.co
@betogomez
Alberto Altamirano
CEO at @cityflag_
@betoaltamirano

2. http://www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/

3. http://flatclassroom10-1.flatclassroomproject.wikispaces.net/Virtual+Communication

5. http://www.cobblearning.net/stemit/files/2014/07/evolution-of-technology-timeline-26fvisk.jpg

6. “ When I wrote The Word is Flat, Facebook did not
exist, Twitter was a sound, the Cloud was in the sky,
4G was a parking space, applications were what you
sent to college, LinkedIn was a prison, and for most
people, Skype was a typo. All of that changed in just
the last six years”.
Thomas Friedman

7. Technology Innovation

8. “Places where information technology is combined with
infrastructure, architecture, everyday objects, and even our bodies
to address social, economic, and environmental problems”.
What is a smart city?
http://www.iotphils.com/solutions/smart-cities/
Anthony Townsend

9. IBM’s Rio Operations Center

10. http://newsroom.mastercard.com/press-releases/cubic-and-mastercard-launch-the-urbanomics-mobility-project/
Urbanomics Mobility Project: MasterCard and Cubic

11. “We recognized that one big area of opportunity is how our data
can help shape government decisions. With rapid urbanization,
infrastructure needs to be efficient. We can help with that. We
provide governments with data about where economic activity is
happening by state, by region and by market. They find our data
is much quicker than their own.”
Ed Brandt,
executive vice president and
managing director of government services
and solutions at MasterCard,

12. Smart for who?

15. Open source innovation

16. OpenSteetMap
http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/09/google-maps-api-vs-openstreetmap/

18. Ushahidi
http://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2011/07/05/ushahidi-android-app-2-0

19. http://andreslajous.blogs.com/alternativa_joven/cosas-buenas/page/12/
http://www.ushahidi.com/blog/2009/01/02/al-jazeera-labs-is-testing-ushahidi/

21. MuralApp

22. Government 1.0
Government and the Internet

23. Too often, we think of government as a kind of
vending machine, we put in our taxes, and get out
services: roads, bridges, hospitals, fire brigades,
police protection… And when the vending machine
doesn’t give us what we want, we protest. Our idea of
citizen engagement has somehow been reduced to
shaking the vending machine.
Tim O’Reilly

24. Government 2.0
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/what-does-government-20-look-l.html
http://www.steamfeed.com/occupy-tea-social-media-party/
http://www.tednguyenusa.com/social-media-revolution/

25. Civic technology is technology (mainly information technology) that enables
engagement or participation of the public for good development, enhancing citizen
communications, improving government infrastructure, or generally making national
and local governments more effective.
Civic Tech
http://www.govtech.com/budget-finance/6-9-Billion-to-be-Spent-on-Civic-Tech-in-2015-Report-Says.html

26. Information and communication technologies are potentially leading to a
new generation of digital citizens with a renewed, but fundamentally
different, interest in citizenship. If the traditional definition of an engaged
citizen is one who votes, reads to stay informed, writes to public officials
and attends public meetings, a digital citizen is one who wants to
engage with government the same way he or she engages in other
aspects of life — electronically, and increasingly through apps on a
mobile device.
Digital citizenship
https://charactercounts.org/training/inservice_digital-citizenship.html

27. • circulate (by blogging, podcasting, or forwarding links)
• collaborate (by working together with others to produce and share
information via projects, such as Wikipedia
• create (by producing and exchanging media via platforms like
YouTube and Flickr)
• connect (through social media, such as Facebook or Twitter, or
through online communities, such as game clans or fandoms).
Young people are using new media to:
We believe the younger generation has a
desire to connect, collaborate, and share.

28. http://www.accela.com/images/civic-tech-infographic-idc.jpg

29. We
are
aiming
for
a
city
that
is
like
the
Internet
in
its
openness,
participation,
distributed
nature
and
rapid,
organic
evolution-­‐
a
city
that
is
not
centrally
operated,
but
that
is
created,
operated
and
improved
by
all.
“Local-­‐social-­‐mobile”

30. 1. Education and Network: Follow your passion, reach out to
people with passions and interests alike. Connect with them,
share ideas, collaborate, create. Build networks.
2. Organize and lead: organize and empower leaders so they too
can lead and educate others by sharing they own experience and
motivate others to follow their passions, collaborate and engage.
3. Technology: Use technology to amplify networks and connect
with more people. Track progress and provide feedback in real
time.
Civic Engagement

31. Civic Tech: The Future of Civic Engagement and Technology Innovation
José Alberto Gómez Isassi
CCO @cityflag_
www.cityflag.co
@betogomez
Alberto Altamirano
CEO at cityflag
@betoaltamirano
Thank you.