28 year old Rachel Sterne heads NYC Government 2.0 roadmap
The things I love in life: urban planning, NYC, technology, data analytics, and ambitious women all rolled into one. Here she talks about O’Reilly’s concept of thinking about “government as a platform”. She challenges us to imagine the city as Facebook or Twitter with API’s. In doing so you open the platform of governance, offer transparency to citizens, and drive forward innovation through community participation. Pretty awesome in my book.
I’ve seen a few gov 2.0 efforts and hackathons taking place at General Assembly (my coworking space). One of them was to re-imagine the nyc.gov website and create a different prototype. The other was to create an app to improve public transit.
