Julia Kloiber from the Open Knowledge Foundation invited me to join her talk for this year’s re:publica on Civic Tech — i.e., how civic volunteers can help shape the way local governments improve on their E-Government, Open Data and E-Participation projects. I might look like I was grumpy in the video – in fact, I am very glad about having been offered this opportunity to outline a few of the good practises we found out to work in Ulm — Thanks again, Julia 🙂

The talk is already online, and I took the liberty to create a link list to the sites and projects we mentioned:

Link list:

• (1:30) A definition for civic innovation
• (2:02) 3-1-1 Extensions based on Open311
  • Chicago Service Tracker, Frontend to Chicago’s 311 service
  • (Not explicitly mentioned) Open311 has been implemented in Germany: Bonn, Giessen, Siegburg (source)
• (2:50) OpenSpending
• (6:32) Tim O’Reilly: Government as a platform
• (7:20) “This Lady“ from Cologne 😉
• (9:46) Helsinki as a best practise example
  • How Helsinki Became the Most Successful Open-Data City in the World (theatlanticcities.com)
  • Helsinki wins EU’s prize for innovation
  • Helsinki Loves Developers
• (11:50) DIY Transit Display in Ulm
  • Local transit got real-time information through the RUDY research project in the early 2000s
  • The transit authority (DING) uses EFA, which has a XML interface. Documentation (in German)
  • Smartphone-compatible frontend to this interface (see also)
• (13:31) Reinvent nyc.gov hackathon
• (14:00) The Code for America Brigade
• (14:41) Chicago Flu Shot App
  • The Flu App Spreads
• (15:14) CyclePhilly
  • Article on technical.ly
  • First deployed in San Francisco (not first, but also in Atlanta, my mistake)
• (15:40) CfA Fellowships
• (16:50) Philadelphia Fellowship Team
• (17:00) Boston Public Schools
  • DiscoverBPS
  • Project Page
• (18:09) Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics
  • StreetBump App
  • Twitter Account
  • Fellowship
• (19:40) Laboratorio para la ciudad
  • Codigo para la ciudad
  • Hackday
  • Infomercado
  • Taxi Check
• (23:15) Ulm again
  • OpenCityCamps 2012 and 2013
  • Temporary data publishing through ulmAPI.de → now on the official daten.ulm.de
• (24:15) Kleiner Spatz: Kindergarten finder map
  • Int’l OpenDataDay
  • Our city contact: @geichris and Lucia Erdt
• (26:15) Open Transit Map (fork it on github!)
  • GTFS schedules from SWU (Ulm transit authority)
  • tba: How it was done (part of my diploma thesis 🙂 )
• (28:50) Code for Germany

Is there something missing? Anything to expand upon? You disagree with anything? Please, do comment! 🙂