P.K. Agarwal, CTO, California

Agenda• We The People

– The Business of Elections– Civic Engagement– Transparency

• Technology Looking Glass– Cloud Computing– Mobility– Green

• New Markets• Wrap Up

2008

Do You Tweet?

TLDNRToo Long, Did Not Read

The Medium is the Message

The form of a message (print, visual, musical, etc.) determines the ways in which that message will be perceived.

Marshall McLuhan

The Medium is the Message

Communication Media, such as radio, television, films, and computers have far-reaching sociological, aesthetic, and philosophical consequences, that it alters the ways we experience the world.

Radio Movies

TV Internet

Movies

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First Televised Debate:

Kennedy-Nixon 1960

Obama And The Internet

Number of Governments in US:

85,000

Number of Elected Officials: 511,000

US Census

Market Size Estimate: Elections

511,000 x $10,000 = $5.1billion(over 4 Years)

Civic Engagement

Three Models

• Town Square– Getting the Whole Community Engaged

• Front Porch– Involving the Neighborhood

• ePetitions

White House Open for Questions

March 2009

Front Porch

June 2009

ePetitions

To: President-Elect Obama

Your good friend Quincy Jones said: "...next conversation I have with President Obama is to beg for a Secretary of Arts."The Undersigned

C-SPAN

Two Models of Transparency

• “Show me my Money”– Financial Accountability (The Check Book)

• Data to the People– Open Government

Data.gov

Back OfficeComputing

eGovernmentInternet

We The PeopleWeb 2.0

Internal

External

Stage Three

Agenda• We The People

– The Business of Elections– Civic Engagement– Transparency

• Technology Looking Glass– Mobility – Cloud Computing– Green

• New Markets• Wrap Up

Mobility

Just the Numbers

• Smart Phones 2008: 173 Million• Smart Phones 2009: 192 Million (est.)

http://mobiledevdesign.com/software_news/smart-phone- growth-despite-poor-econ-0304

April 23, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixieledpictures/2570791174/

Cloud

Computing

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Energy Efficiency

The 5th FuelOther 4: Petroleum, Coal, Nuclear, Alternative

IT is in Fuel Business?

New Markets

• Elections• Civic Engagement• Transparency• Digital Textbooks• Broadband Mapping• Smart Grid• Health IT

Government IT Spend: $148 billion

16% of Total IT Spend

2009 Figures

Stimulus $ Est. 85 Billion

IT and Economic DevelopmentElectronic Health Records

$20 billion

Smart Grid $4.5 billionBroadband $7.2 billion

Jobs Created in the First Year: ~900,000

Total Jobs Lost Since Dec. 07:

6.9 millionhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/technology/26techjobs.htmlhttps://ia.cpuc.ca.gov/CommChong/post/Recovery-Act-Funds-for-Smart-Grid.aspxhttp://www.whydom.com/2009/02/19/the-recovery-act-delivers-broadband-growthhttp://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

PK’s Prognostication

• A New Culture in Government• 3rd Stage Transition 2008-2012

• Commoditization of TechnologyIaaS; PaaS; SaaS3rd stage is all SaasOpen Source

• From Web to Mobile Web

• Data.gov as economic development

Agenda• We The People

– The Business of Elections– Civic Engagement– Transparency

• Technology Looking Glass– Cloud Computing– Mobility– Green

• New Markets• Wrap Up

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of

course, but at least she isn't standing still.

~e.e. cummings

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