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.TRANSCRIPT
MIKE MATHIEUFRONT SEAT
3/11 /09
Save the Programmer. Save the Planet.
About Me
About Me
About Me
About Me
Civic Software
Software
EmpoweringCreative DestructionChange
Crisis
Tech Layoffs
Hope
Economics
1 Variable Costs
2 Fixed Costs
Cheap Software
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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