This is LIVE blogging and totally not every conversation or important topic!! – my personal notes & asides
Mobile for the Citizen: Gwynne Kostin, Matt Lira, & Oscar Salazar
- Quick video Clip to kick off the closing Keynote but there are technical difficulties. Amazing number of technical difficulties for a summit being held in Microsoft.
- “form is following function”… we are doing things difficulty
- Mobile is changing the way that we interact with people
- “we are mobile but we are Not all Citizens”
- House Majority Leader’s Office is here – Matt Lira
- Soon the House will be required to release data in machine readable format – increased access!!
- Government is not about PR – Government is about getting stuff done
Questions
- what is the biggest challenge you find in using Mobile for engaging citizens?
- a lot of regulations
- Govt doesn’t KNOW what will be an effective app to reach out to citizens
- Taking what they do at a federal level and making it pertinent to people on their level
- You don’t engage people through technology. You engage them through actions.
- Govt shouldn’t be in the business of creating experiences – Citizens should create experiences
- Listen to find out what people are doing / where they are doing / how they are doing it
- Go where the energy is particularly for a legislative area
- Tracking elections in real time – trained reporters using SMS – managers curate the information
- building quality of life report for a country in South America – asking the citizens for their information i.e. we don’t have fresh water / have schools but don’t have teachers
- bringing together people who work with mobiles from different agencies to talk about what they are doing and sharing information
- Get the legislative data out there – transparency
- millions of people contact Congress every month but what happens to that information / questions? – Modernize the way that Congress “listens”
- actively driving legislative outcomes
- initially that was somewhat what happened with email – take That as an example to help setup a way to deal with social media – the tools are still emerging –
- Citizen: any person who is co-creating with the government and holding the government accountable and expecting transparancy / a Mobile citizen: a small megaphone that you give to a person who has never been heard before (i.e. a street vendor in Columbia) – helping the government give them a better life @osalazar
- You can’t “separate” the mobile citizen from Citizens – our citizens Are mobile – Gwynne Kostin
- Not a new kind of citizen – just making what a citizen should be “on the go – 24/7” – Matt Lira
Closing out the Day
- Time for the after event party at Clyde’s
Applicationsforgood.org hackathon – prizes include
First Prize: $500 & from Microsoft a Windows Phone – NEXERCISE
Second prize: WhereHire – help people find jobs –
Third Prize: Dr Minder – text base to remind you that you have to go to a dentist and will give you docs in your areas
Fourth Prize: SMS Budget reminder and tracker