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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.80,0:00:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the White House was built
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.62,0:00:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the early 19th century, it was an open house.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.61,0:00:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Neighbors came and went. Under President Adams,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.74,0:00:10.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a local dentist happened by.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.11,0:00:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wanted to shake the President's hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.70,0:00:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The President dismissed the Secretary of State,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.85,0:00:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whom he was conferring with, and asked the dentist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.77,0:00:18.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if he would remove a tooth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.58,0:00:21.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Later, in the 1850s, under President Pierce,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.64,0:00:23.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was known to have remarked
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.23,0:00:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— probably the only thing he's known for —
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.80,0:00:28.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when a neighbor passed by and said, "I'd love to see
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.55,0:00:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the beautiful house," and Pierce said to him,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.81,0:00:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Why my dear sir, of course you may come in.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.43,0:00:37.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This isn't my house. It is the people's house."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.15,0:00:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, when I got to the White House in the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.22,0:00:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of 2009, at the start of the Obama Administration,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.44,0:00:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the White House was anything but open.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.32,0:00:47.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bomb blast curtains covered my windows.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.84,0:00:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We were running Windows 2000.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.02,0:00:52.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Social media were blocked at the firewall.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.21,0:00:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We didn't have a blog, let alone a dozen twitter accounts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.75,0:00:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like we have today.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.77,0:00:59.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I came in to become the head of Open Government,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.38,0:01:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take the values and the practices of transparency,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.18,0:01:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,participation and collaboration, and instill them
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.59,0:01:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the way that we work, to open up government,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.42,0:01:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to work with people.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.94,0:01:12.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now one of the things that we know
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.63,0:01:15.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that companies are very good at getting people to work
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.65,0:01:17.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together in teams and in networks to make
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.90,0:01:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very complex products, like cars and computers,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.54,0:01:25.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the more complex the products are a society creates,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.23,0:01:28.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more successful the society is over time.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.08,0:01:30.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Companies make goods, but governments,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.83,0:01:33.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they make public goods. They work on the cure for cancer
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.95,0:01:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and educating our children and making roads,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.76,0:01:40.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we don't have institutions that are particularly good
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.40,0:01:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at this kind of complexity. We don't have institutions
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.93,0:01:46.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are good at bringing our talents to bear,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.05,0:01:50.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at working with us in this kind of open and collaborative way.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.51,0:01:52.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when we wanted to create our Open Government policy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.77,0:01:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what did we do? We wanted, naturally, to ask public sector
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.35,0:01:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,employees how we should open up government.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.29,0:02:01.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turns out that had never been done before.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.52,0:02:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We wanted to ask members of the public to help us
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.14,0:02:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,come up with a policy, not after the fact, commenting
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.42,0:02:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on a rule after it's written, the way is typically the case,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.80,0:02:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in advance. There was no legal precedent,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.12,0:02:17.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no cultural precedent, no technical way of doing this.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.27,0:02:20.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, many people told us it was illegal.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.11,0:02:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here's the crux of the obstacle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.22,0:02:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Governments exist to channel the flow of two things,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.82,0:02:29.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, values and expertise to and from government
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.32,0:02:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to and from citizens to the end of making decisions.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.16,0:02:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the way that our institutions are designed,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.56,0:02:38.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in our rather 18th-century, centralized model,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.61,0:02:42.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to channel the flow of values through voting,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.29,0:02:44.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once every four years, once every two years, at best,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.49,0:02:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once a year. This is a rather anemic and thin way, in this
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.05,0:02:52.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,era of social media, for us to actually express our values.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.06,0:02:54.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we have technology that lets us express ourselves
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.67,0:02:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a great deal, perhaps a little too much.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.68,0:02:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then in the 19th century, we layer on
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.95,0:03:02.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the concept of bureaucracy and the administrative state
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.36,0:03:05.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to help us govern complex and large societies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.50,0:03:08.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But we've centralized these bureaucracies.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.73,0:03:11.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've entrenched them. And we know that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.18,0:03:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the smartest person always works for someone else.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:13.89,0:03:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to only look around this room to know that
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.57,0:03:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expertise and intelligence is widely distributed in society,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.16,0:03:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not limited simply to our institutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.34,0:03:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Scientists have been studying in recent years
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.60,0:03:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the phenomenon that they often describe as flow,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.14,0:03:32.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the design of our systems, whether natural or social,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.40,0:03:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,channel the flow of whatever runs through them.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.08,0:03:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a river is designed to channel the flow of water,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.36,0:03:40.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the lightning bolt that comes out of a cloud channels
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.83,0:03:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the flow of electricity, and a leaf is designed to channel
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.33,0:03:46.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the flow of nutrients to the tree,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.35,0:03:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes even having to route around an obstacle,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.36,0:03:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to get that nutrition flowing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.08,0:03:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The same can be said for our social systems, for our
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.42,0:03:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systems of government, where, at the very least,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:56.90,0:03:59.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flow offers us a helpful metaphor for understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.92,0:04:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the problem is, what's really broken,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.57,0:04:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the urgent need that we have, that we all feel today,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.26,0:04:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to redesign the flow of our institutions.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.54,0:04:14.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in a Cambrian era of big data, of social networks,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.06,0:04:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have this opportunity to redesign these institutions
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.33,0:04:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are actually quite recent.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.22,0:04:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think about it: What other business do you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.46,0:04:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what other sector of the economy, and especially one
Dialogue: 0,0:04:26.86,0:04:30.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as big as the public sector, that doesn't seek to reinvent
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.64,0:04:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its business model on a regular basis?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.55,0:04:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sure, we invest plenty in innovation. We invest
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.64,0:04:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in broadband and science education and science grants,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.60,0:04:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we invest far too little in reinventing and redesigning
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.95,0:04:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the institutions that we have.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.55,0:04:48.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, it's very easy to complain, of course, about
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.89,0:04:52.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,partisan politics and entrenched bureaucracy, and we love
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.35,0:04:55.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to complain about government. It's a perennial pastime,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.27,0:04:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,especially around election time, but
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.92,0:05:01.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world is complex. We soon will have 10 billion people,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.31,0:05:04.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of whom will lack basic resources.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:04.18,0:05:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So complain as we might, what actually can replace
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.50,0:05:09.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we have today?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.81,0:05:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What comes the day after the Arab Spring?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.92,0:05:17.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, one attractive alternative that obviously presents itself
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.80,0:05:20.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to us is that of networks. Right? Networks
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.56,0:05:23.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Facebook and Twitter. They're lean. They're mean.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.27,0:05:25.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got 3,000 employees at Facebook
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.78,0:05:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,governing 900 million inhabitants.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.72,0:05:31.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might even call them citizens, because they've recently
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.47,0:05:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,risen up to fight against legislative incursion,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.84,0:05:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the citizens of these networks work together
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.38,0:05:40.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to serve each other in great ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.62,0:05:43.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But private communities, private, corporate,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.41,0:05:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,privatizing communities, are not bottom-up democracies.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.55,0:05:48.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They cannot replace government.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.56,0:05:51.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Friending someone on Facebook is not complex enough
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.66,0:05:54.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to do the hard work of you and I collaborating
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.32,0:05:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with each other and doing the hard work of governance.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.21,0:06:01.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But social media do teach us something.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.14,0:06:05.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why is Twitter so successful? Because it opens up its platform.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.62,0:06:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It opens up the API to allow hundreds of thousands
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.56,0:06:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of new applications to be built on top of it, so that we can
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.03,0:06:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,read and process information in new and exciting ways.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.36,0:06:18.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need to think about how to open up the API
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.70,0:06:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of government, and the way that we're going to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.76,0:06:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the next great superpower is going to be the one
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.01,0:06:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who can successfully combine the hierarchy of institution --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.99,0:06:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we have to maintain those public values,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.34,0:06:37.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we have to coordinate the flow -- but with the diversity
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.26,0:06:39.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the pulsating life and the chaos and the excitement
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.93,0:06:43.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of networks, all of us working together to build
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.02,0:06:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these new innovations on top of our institutions,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:46.72,0:06:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to engage in the practice of governance.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:48.94,0:06:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have a precedent for this. Good old Henry II here,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.08,0:06:55.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the 12th century, invented the jury.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.93,0:07:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Powerful, practical, palpable model for handing power
Dialogue: 0,0:07:00.15,0:07:02.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from government to citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.85,0:07:06.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we have the opportunity, and we have
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.24,0:07:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the imperative, to create thousands of new ways
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.74,0:07:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of interconnecting between networks and institutions,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.98,0:07:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of new kinds of juries: the citizen jury,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.64,0:07:19.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Carrotmob, the hackathon, we are just beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.32,0:07:22.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to invent the models by which we can cocreate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.38,0:07:24.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the process of governance.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.12,0:07:26.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, we don't fully have a picture of what this will look like
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.74,0:07:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yet, but we're seeing pockets of evolution
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.36,0:07:32.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emerging all around us -- maybe not even evolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.34,0:07:36.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd even start to call it a revolution -- in the way that we govern.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.15,0:07:37.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some of it's very high-tech,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:37.64,0:07:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and some of it is extremely low-tech,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.69,0:07:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such as the project that MKSS is running in Rajasthan,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.06,0:07:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,India, where they take the spending data of the state
Dialogue: 0,0:07:46.60,0:07:50.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and paint it on 100,000 village walls,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.05,0:07:52.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then invite the villagers to come and comment
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.34,0:07:54.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is on the government payroll, who's actually died,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.83,0:07:57.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what are the bridges that have been built to nowhere,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.45,0:07:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to work together through civic engagement to save
Dialogue: 0,0:07:59.80,0:08:03.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real money and participate and have access to that budget.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.56,0:08:05.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not just about policing government.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.96,0:08:07.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also about creating government.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.69,0:08:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spacehive in the U.K. is engaging in crowd-funding,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.80,0:08:13.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting you and me to raise the money to build
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.49,0:08:16.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the goalposts and the park benches that will actually
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.15,0:08:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allow us to deliver better services in our communities.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.71,0:08:23.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No one is better at this activity of actually getting us
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.35,0:08:26.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to engage in delivering services,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.59,0:08:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes where none exist, than Ushahidi.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.74,0:08:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Created after the post-election riots in Kenya in 2008,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.09,0:08:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this crisis-mapping website and community is actually able
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.03,0:08:40.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to crowdsource and target the delivery of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.67,0:08:43.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,better rescue services to people trapped under the rubble,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.76,0:08:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether it's after the earthquakes in Haiti,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:46.22,0:08:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or more recently in Italy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.74,0:08:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the Red Cross too is training volunteers and Twitter
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.88,0:08:54.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is certifying them, not simply to supplement existing
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.74,0:08:58.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government institutions, but in many cases, to replace them.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.78,0:09:01.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now what we're seeing lots of examples of, obviously,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.79,0:09:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is the opening up of government data,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.47,0:09:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not enough examples of this yet, but we're starting
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.47,0:09:10.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to see this practice of people creating and generating
Dialogue: 0,0:09:10.00,0:09:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,innovative applications on top of government data.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:13.47,0:09:15.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's so many examples I could have picked, and I
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.80,0:09:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,selected this one of Jon Bon Jovi. Some of you
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.97,0:09:21.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may or may not know that he runs a soup kitchen
Dialogue: 0,0:09:21.24,0:09:23.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in New Jersey, where he caters to and serves the homeless
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.100,0:09:25.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and particularly homeless veterans.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.69,0:09:28.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In February, he approached the White House, and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.47,0:09:32.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I would like to fund a prize to create scalable national
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.31,0:09:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,applications, apps, that will help not only the homeless
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.84,0:09:39.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but those who deliver services [to] them to do so better."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.27,0:09:42.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,February 2012 to June of 2012,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.51,0:09:45.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the finalists are announced in the competition.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.50,0:09:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you imagine, in the bureaucratic world of yesteryear,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.49,0:09:51.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting anything done in a four-month period of time?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.24,0:09:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can barely fill out the forms in that amount of time,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:53.37,0:09:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone generate real, palpable innovations
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.24,0:09:58.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that improve people's lives.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.13,0:10:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to be clear to mention that this open government
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.36,0:10:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolution is not about privatizing government,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.14,0:10:08.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because in many cases what it can do when we have
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.04,0:10:11.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the will to do so is to deliver more progressive
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.13,0:10:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and better policy than the regulations and the legislative
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.26,0:10:18.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and litigation-oriented strategies
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.22,0:10:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by which we make policy today.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.82,0:10:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the State of Texas, they regulate 515 professions,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.54,0:10:26.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from well-driller to florist.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.61,0:10:29.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you can carry a gun into a church in Dallas,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.83,0:10:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but do not make a flower arrangement without a license,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.99,0:10:35.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because that will land you in jail.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.60,0:10:39.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So what is Texas doing? They're asking you and me,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.62,0:10:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using online policy wikis, to help not simply get rid of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.71,0:10:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,burdensome regulations that impede entrepreneurship,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.27,0:10:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but to replace those regulations with more innovative
Dialogue: 0,0:10:50.27,0:10:53.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alternatives, sometimes using transparency in the creation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.13,0:10:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of new iPhone apps that will allows us
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.12,0:10:57.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both to protect consumers and the public
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.39,0:11:00.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to encourage economic development.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.90,0:11:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is a nice sideline of open government.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.05,0:11:06.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not only the benefits that we've talked about with regard
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.76,0:11:10.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to development. It's the economic benefits and the
Dialogue: 0,0:11:10.22,0:11:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,job creation that's coming from this open innovation work.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.85,0:11:17.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sberbank, the largest and oldest bank in Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.67,0:11:19.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,largely owned by the Russian government,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.47,0:11:22.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has started practicing crowdsourcing, engaging
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.47,0:11:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its employees and citizens in the public in developing innovations.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.82,0:11:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last year they saved a billion dollars, 30 billion rubles,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.24,0:11:32.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from open innovation, and they're pushing radically
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.100,0:11:35.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the extension of crowdsourcing, not only from banking,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:35.66,0:11:37.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but into the public sector.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.70,0:11:40.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we see lots of examples of these innovators using
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.44,0:11:43.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,open government data, not simply to make apps,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.29,0:11:45.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but then to make companies and to hire people
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.35,0:11:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build them working with the government.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.65,0:11:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a lot of these innovations are local.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.78,0:11:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In San Ramon, California, they published an iPhone app
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.89,0:11:56.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in which they allow you or me to say we are certified
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.44,0:12:00.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,CPR-trained, and then when someone has a heart attack,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:00.01,0:12:02.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a notification goes out so that you
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.25,0:12:06.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can rush over to the person over here and deliver CPR.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.21,0:12:08.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The victim who receives bystander CPR
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.51,0:12:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is more than twice as likely to survive.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.98,0:12:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"There is a hero in all of us," is their slogan.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.65,0:12:17.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not limited to the local.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.20,0:12:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,British Columbia, Canada, is publishing a catalogue
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.86,0:12:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of all the ways that its residents and citizens can engage
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.94,0:12:26.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the state in the cocreation of governance.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.66,0:12:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let me be very clear,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.72,0:12:31.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and perhaps controversial,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.19,0:12:33.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that open government is not
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.98,0:12:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about transparent government.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.95,0:12:38.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Simply throwing data over the transom doesn't change
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.87,0:12:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how government works.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.28,0:12:42.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It doesn't get anybody to do anything with that data
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.85,0:12:46.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to change lives, to solve problems, and it doesn't change
Dialogue: 0,0:12:46.56,0:12:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.83,0:12:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it does is it creates an adversarial relationship
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.85,0:12:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between civil society and government
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.58,0:12:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the control and ownership of information.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.62,0:12:58.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And transparency, by itself, is not reducing the flow
Dialogue: 0,0:12:58.20,0:13:00.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of money into politics, and arguably,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.61,0:13:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not even producing accountability as well as it might
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.35,0:13:06.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if we took the next step of combining participation and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.81,0:13:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collaboration with transparency to transform how we work.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.92,0:13:13.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to see this evolution really in two phases,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.66,0:13:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think. The first phase of the open government revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.95,0:13:20.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is delivering better information from the crowd
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.72,0:13:22.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the center.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.12,0:13:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Starting in 2005, and this is how this open government
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.06,0:13:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work in the U.S. really got started,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.02,0:13:29.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was teaching a patent law class to my students and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.27,0:13:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,explaining to them how a single person in the bureaucracy
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.04,0:13:35.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has the power to make a decision
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.18,0:13:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about which patent application becomes the next patent,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.66,0:13:42.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore monopolizes for 20 years the rights
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.40,0:13:45.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over an entire field of inventive activity.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.41,0:13:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, what did we do? We said, we can make a website,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.32,0:13:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we can make an expert network, a social network,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:50.72,0:13:52.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would connect the network to the institution
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.99,0:13:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to allow scientists and technologists to get
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.37,0:13:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,better information to the patent office
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.00,0:14:00.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to aid in making those decisions.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.47,0:14:03.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We piloted the work in the U.S. and the U.K. and Japan
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.10,0:14:05.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Australia, and now I'm pleased to report
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.89,0:14:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the United States Patent Office will be rolling out
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.15,0:14:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,universal, complete, and total openness,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:12.61,0:14:15.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that all patent applications will now be open
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.66,0:14:19.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for citizen participation, beginning this year.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.33,0:14:22.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second phase of this evolution — Yeah. (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.26,0:14:25.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They deserve a hand. (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.22,0:14:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The first phase is in getting better information in.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.75,0:14:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The second phase is in getting decision-making power out.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:31.61,0:14:34.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Participatory budgeting has long been practiced
Dialogue: 0,0:14:34.22,0:14:35.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.64,0:14:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're just starting it in the 49th Ward in Chicago.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.62,0:14:42.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russia is using wikis to get citizens writing law together,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.16,0:14:44.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as is Lithuania. When we start to see
Dialogue: 0,0:14:44.51,0:14:46.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,power over the core functions of government
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.82,0:14:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,— spending, legislation, decision-making —
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.44,0:14:54.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we're well on our way to an open government revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.50,0:14:58.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are many things that we can do to get us there.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:58.33,0:15:00.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Obviously opening up the data is one,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.99,0:15:03.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the important thing is to create lots more --
Dialogue: 0,0:15:03.35,0:15:07.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,create and curate -- lots more participatory opportunities.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.58,0:15:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hackathons and mashathons and working with data
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.28,0:15:13.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build apps is an intelligible way for people to engage
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.99,0:15:16.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and participate, like the jury is,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.49,0:15:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we're going to need lots more things like it.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.51,0:15:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why we need to start with our youngest people.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.16,0:15:26.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've heard talk here at TED about people
Dialogue: 0,0:15:26.78,0:15:30.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biohacking and hacking their plants with Arduino,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:30.85,0:15:33.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Mozilla is doing work around the world in getting
Dialogue: 0,0:15:33.89,0:15:37.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,young people to build websites and make videos.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.25,0:15:39.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we start by teaching young people that we live,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.99,0:15:43.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not in a passive society, a read-only society,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.51,0:15:46.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in a writable society, where we have the power
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.07,0:15:49.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to change our communities, to change our institutions,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.70,0:15:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's when we begin to really put ourselves on the pathway
Dialogue: 0,0:15:52.83,0:15:56.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards this open government innovation,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:56.04,0:15:57.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards this open government movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.75,0:16:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,towards this open government revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.28,0:16:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me close by saying that I think the important thing
Dialogue: 0,0:16:02.52,0:16:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for us to do is to talk about and demand this revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:08.38,0:16:11.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We don't have words, really, to describe it yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.68,0:16:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Words like equality and fairness and the traditional
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.90,0:16:18.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elections, democracy, these are not really great terms yet.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.27,0:16:21.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're not fun enough. They're not exciting enough
Dialogue: 0,0:16:21.02,0:16:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to get us engaged in this tremendous opportunity
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.34,0:16:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that awaits us. But I would argue that if we want to see
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.74,0:16:30.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the kinds of innovations, the hopeful and exciting
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.45,0:16:33.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,innovations that we hear talked about here at TED,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.11,0:16:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in clean energy, in clean education,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.29,0:16:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in development, if we want to see those adopted
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.88,0:16:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we want to see those scaled,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:40.14,0:16:42.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we want to see them become the governance of tomorrow,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.93,0:16:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we must all participate,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.63,0:16:46.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we must get involved.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:46.13,0:16:49.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We must open up our institutions, and like the leaf,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.34,0:16:53.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must let the nutrients flow throughout our body politic,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.53,0:16:56.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout our culture, to create open institutions
Dialogue: 0,0:16:56.73,0:16:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to create a stronger democracy, a better tomorrow.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.40,0:17:02.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you. (Applause)