etech: mike mathieu on civic software

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Mike Mathieu's "Save the Programmer. Save the Planet" session on civic software and the work of Front Seat at O'Reilly's ETech 2009 in San Jose.

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MIKE MATHIEUFRONT SEAT

3/11 /09

Save the Programmer. Save the Planet.

About Me

About Me

Civic Software

Software

EmpoweringCreative DestructionChange

Crisis

Tech Layoffs

Hope

Economics

1 Variable Costs

2 Fixed Costs

Cheap Software

1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 20100

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20000

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Hours to Build a Useful Web App

Cheap Software Opportunity

Data becoming more important than code Google, Amazon, Craigslist, Twitter

Civic Data is plentiful and largely untapped2 people in a room can do something useful

Demos

FixMyStreet.com (MySociety)CountMore.orgWalk ScoreTransit Time

Google Transit on iPhone

Visualization

Usability

Civic Intelligence

Transparency

Hope

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