Civic Entrepreneurship
hacking our neighborhoods
Greg Tracy | @gregtracy
SMSMyBus
Real-time arrival estimates delivered via SMS
SMSMyBus
Interfaces:
• SMS
• Voice
• Chat
• Email
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
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
Go.
do something great for your community
Greg Tracy | @gregtracy