Civic Entrepreneurship

hacking our neighborhoods

Greg Tracy | @gregtracy

SMSMyBus

Real-time arrival estimates delivered via SMS

SMSMyBus

Interfaces:

• SMS

• Voice

• Chat

• Email

i wasn’t alone

virtual bus stops

This work made the

system better!

my civic epiphany

time + passion = goodness

This isn’t new.

craigslist

Gov2.0

Big goal of open data

(it’s important for Madison to embrace this)

Enabling platforms

driving cost to $0

drives efficiency to the moon!

Make your

neighborhood, block,

or street an even

better place to live

hacking

schools

let’s fix this

let’s optimize these

Don’t let anyone ask

you about business

models

success & failure are relative

(and experiments are cheap!)

Don’t think big

Hyper-local is the new black

Madtown bliss

Go.

do something great for your community

Greg Tracy | @gregtracy