• Mr Hacker Goes to Washington @SunFoundation
May 25, 2015
•Mr Hacker Goes to Washington@SunFoundation
Washington, DC…
Washington, DC…
1,300+ Agencies$71 Billion IT Budget 3 Million Employees
Bailout
Procurement @ DoD
How Congress patches “code”
How Congress patches “code”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpmartineau/502316919
Govt has legacy systemsis
But, since 2006…
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We are sharing information faster…
What have we learned?
No API
No Social
No Bill Tracking
No MultimediaFAIL
No Diff’ing
No Platform
OpenCongress.org
(Social/API/FLOSS)
GovTrack.us
(RDF/XML/FLOSS)
If we hack it……they will follow
70+ sitesin 50 days
Web = Realtime
Frequency drives efficiency
Print = Periodic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/austinevan/1225274637/in/photostream/
① Parse a State
② Join [email protected]
③ Go Hackathon - wiki.sunlightlabs.com
Transparency by the People for the People
350+developers
④ Redesign an Agency Web Site
⑤ Create /Recovery Pages
⑥ Visualize Data
Transparency by the People for the People
Seize New Opportunities
The NEW Washington, DC…
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