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We have to make bureaucracy sexy.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Bureaucracy
Sexy
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If you dont tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Ifs
Risk
Tolerate
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If you don't tolerate any risk, you can never innovate.
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Tolerate
Innovate
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We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
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Government
Inspiration
Motivation
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Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.
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Cities
Functions
Industrial
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When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Community
Helping
Neighbor
Another
Communities
Helps
Strengthen
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We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
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Government
Cant
Needs
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We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Government More Need
Effective
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As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
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Citizen
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A neighbor is a far better and cheaper alternative to government services.
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Government
Alternatives
Neighbor
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Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.
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Ocean
Government
Layers
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Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?
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Crowds
Hands
Voice
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Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.
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Aspect
Data
Differences
Great Things
Our Lives
Real
Difference
Real Difference
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[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.
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Battle
Fighting
Generations
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Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.
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Designer
Better Job
Talented
Developer
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I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
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Citizens
Served
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When there are more males in the industry to begin with, it just has a more male feel, and that pushes the girls away.
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Girl
Feels
Industry
Males
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There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
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Encountered
Grown
Mash
Tinker
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Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Government
Technology
Together
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A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.
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Challenges
Long
Negative
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It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.
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Remarkable
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We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Bureaucracy
Frustrated
Local Government
Local
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There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.
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Austin
Contingency
Dallas
Significant
Additional
Centered
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We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.
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Bureaucracy
Contempt
Pay
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In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
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Borders
Camp
Everything Else
Geeks
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You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
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Government
Citizens
Confusing
Thinking
Venture
Interface
Simpler
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Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Government
Given
People
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Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.
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Politics Government People
Reconsider
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Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.
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Complicated
Mind Boggling
Account
Processes
Required
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So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Vote
People Feel Help
Few People
Institution
Partly
Something Else
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If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.
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Complex
Evolving
Systems
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Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Code
Developers
Enormous
Investment
Startups
Teams
Tough Business
Web
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Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.
Jennifer Pahlka / Executive
Collaborating
Depends
Platforms
Internet People Information
Benefit
Internet Information People
Consume
More People
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