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Jennifer Pahlka van Code for America hield een keynotepresentatie tijdens South by Southwest 2012: Coding the Next Chapter of American History

  1. "Hippest crowd in the world and I'm talking about what must be the biggest yawn (government technology)" #sxsw #JPahlka
  2. 'im going 2 tell you why ppl give a damn abt coding 4 America' -@pahlkadot at 'Coding the Next Chptr of American History' #sxsw #JPahlka
  3. Code for America building accelerator for civic-minded startups. Fantastic way to drive attention to local govt & tech. #JPahlka #SXSW
  4. #JPahlka showing photos of really terrible government UI. REALLY terrible. No wonder there are so many problems... #sxsw
  5. Appalling look at the screens "behind the counters" at government agencies. Dismally outdated and non-functioning technology #sxsw #jpahlka
  6. Good teeth-pulling: gov't spends $140 billion on tech a year. What does Apple pay out to app developers? $2 billion/yr. #Jpahlka #SXSW
  7. Pahlka is showing a whole series of people doing cool work with and for government, local and national, #sxsw #JPahlka
  8. Pothole finding app maps city potholes via car vibrations through iPhone #sxsw #JPahlka
  9. “Things are changing. The people who are responsible for government technology are changing.” They are risk takers & leaders. #JPahlka #sxsw
  10. We can't fix what's wrong with government only w/elections. We also have to engage at lower levels and with bureaucracy. #jpahlka #SXSW
  11. "If we build apps in a city that actually work with city services, citizens can see the value in these apps right away." #JPahlka #SXSW
  12. Code for America started as a lot of things do - over a beer #sxsw #JPahlka
  13. Teach for America inspired #JPahlka to start Code for America #SWSW
  14. When they started, they focussed on federal level until a city official reached out to them and woke them up. #sxsw #JPahlka
  15. Then she realised: people won't do it for profit but they might do it because it's the right thing to do. Civic duty. #sxsw #JPahlka
  16. So she quit her job and started Code for America. At first they had no idea how to start, but 13 cities applied immediately. #sxsw #JPahlka
  17. "Of course they all didn't pan out - but we got 4 contracts from cities, for a new and totally unproven company." #sxsw #JPahlka
  18. They started looking for fellows to work for a small stipend under difficult conditions. Didn't think they'd find people. #sxsw #JPahlka
  19. One example: some Code For America fellows needed to buy ties - and learn how to tie them - to meet Boston's dress code. #jpahlka
  20. In @codeforamerica 's first year they created 21 apps to make nornally frustrating tasks more convenient! Pretty amazing. #JPahlka #sxsw
  21. Code for America fellows built a web app for public schools in 2 months that would have taken the city two years for $2mil. #JPahlka #SXSW
  22. Why do people sign up for CfA? One said he did b/c he believed that interfaces to .gov "can be simple, beautiful and easy to use." #jpahlka

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