Data in the City of Angels: Building an Open Data Community

@abhinemani

1) Focus on the user.

Original data.lacity.org

data.lacity.org

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50% -> 5% STICKING AROUND. Measuring the change in the bounce rate on data.lacity.org before and after the redesign of the homepage.

55 50 49

5 4

LATE JAN EARLY FEB MID FEB LATE FEB EARLY MARCH

prototype.datala.mobi

2) Change your citizens’ experience

@ABHINEMANI

Let’s make all apps more civic.

3) Enable a community

a) Create a place where good people can work on good problems.

b) Build an identity.

DATA.LACITY.ORG

c) Then challenge them to get something done.

Largelots.org

Answers.oaklandnet.com

LOS ANGELES TIMES

#techLA Competition: After 24 hours of coding, a team that created an

application to efficiently deliver supplies to homeless shelters took home the top prize…

"One more thing," said [one winner], "We're all in high school."

4) Build & Engage Institutions

Mayor’s Dashboard

Spreadsheet Powered by Google Docs

Smart Chicago Collaborative

Compiler.LA: New Civic Tech Organization

CityGrows.LA

CAPITAL STEPPING UP.

MCKINSEY

Economic Value of Open Data, Industries Combined:

$3 Trillion

govlab.com/opendata500

Don’t just open data. Create friction with it.

@abhinemani

ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE

“..as soon as they have found one another out, they combine.

From that moment they are no longer isolated men, but a power seen from afar,

whose actions serve for an example and whose language is listened to.”