- Focus on Pillbox
- Has API - drive traffic to it
- Pillbox by phone - queries pillbox by speaking - created by student at GWU - created it in 3 weeks
- There's an IM version of it tool
- iPhone Pill Discovery App - someone scraped our data and made the app
- PharmvilleRx - prescribe meds, does teach about meds, even if irreverent
- Sharing Facebook interface FBML <> PHP
- Have released a lot of code re this.
- Creating new way to open data and solve challenges - lots of orgs want to work with them ... and still in beta
- Found ancient text on being Open Gov Ninja??? Mid 12C Japan? Open Gov Initiative?
- What is Open gov Ninja
- Ninja Myth: if they could be effective - they'll do it.
- Centers on Data.gov agency. From 26 to >200K datasets
- skills: Innovation - do something new and unique
- Ninja Myth: Ninja used magic - nope used what was available to them (e.g., farm tools)
- Andrew.wilson@hhs.gov - web new media strategist SAHMSA - using google docs and google pipes
- had to bridge Open & transparent to Usable
- Took 9 people and several parts of 2 agencies FDA, NLM, 3 months for standard.
- Ninjas did learn from secret texts, but also from leaders...like Hopra and Kundra
- We have texts - WebContent.gov...
- but no mountain hideaways...do have Gov20 and Health20 web meetups
- @levyj412 : mission, tool, metrics, teach
- Now outside: Strategy, Ethnography
- learn from our citizens - Michael Wesch, KSU; Gelly Goto
- field studies, ethnography, shadowing
- Listened to people about how they worked and lived
- Strategy: Ethnography; Activity: Personas - for debate - answer using personas or get back out with your citizens
- This is user centered design - citizens should outnumber you
- Strategy: Community Engagement
- Health Information Unconference
- Even if usable, need support of community - need champions - engaged communities
- Ask community - took pillbox on the road
- HealthCamp provided advice and grew community. Felt ownership of project.
- Read comments in blogposts
- picked up by lifehacker, and got
- Activity: Building Open Data
- Ninja Myth: Ninjas created by Linux
- Stallman: GNU Project "Free as in Speech" not "Free as in beer"
- listen to your citizens take the wheel - they know where they are going
- pillbox API data as a web service - they knew they were helping to prove this
- API for medical journals
- Trying to see if we can have API Catalog
- Strategy: Must take data to your users
- we have data and an API that can solve problems
- kicked off program on farmville, in hackathon.
- wrote wrapper in Ruby to GitHub; another person wrote in Python
- Did better with coopetition. Only possible with open system
- Ninja Stealth: Not really useful or practical
- Is your project aligned with your organization?
- Think small, small and iterative, fail fast, document failures "look what we've learned from this"
- Have cover - member of management who like the project
- Management buy-in show buy in and success from other agencies.
