The first is that I'm here speaking in my personal unofficial capacity, and my remarks don't necessarily reflect the positions of the Defense Department or any other US government agency . And as a lowly civil servant, my remarks are in no way meant to be interpreted as a criticism of the policies of the Obama administration.So again, please excuse me if I don't get into any critical comments about current policy.
It starts off with, like I said, the human intelligence on the ground that led to-- there's a movie called "Zero Dark Thirty" And so this government agency worked on him for years and years and years, pinpointing him.
So that's the beginning, the first scaffolding, that there's this structure of the peer network that deserves to be considered alongside that of the top-down corporation or the top-down government agency . The second stage then is that that kind of structure, embodied in code, can be used to solve other kinds of problems.
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That's the sample that's going to allow us to calculate the fraction of stars in our galaxy that host small, potentially habitable planets. This is NASA's portfolio-- just one government agency 's portfolio.
Let's see. Part of the change that I said was challenging was reminding everybody who the customer is. So when you work in a government agency , while you work for the citizens of the country, you often consider yourself to be the customer. You're working for the people, but the contractor who's supplying you with something-- they need to understand you're the customer.
I'll leave you, we can open up to conversation, but I'll tell you just one story that may be my favorite story of the whole book, which took place right here in this neighborhood and is an example of how a government agency can work with a peer network to actually solve problems in cities and involves the incredible 311 service that the city has
um well how confused the discussion become very quickly depending on whether you have a theory of what participation is supposed to achieve for a government agency um and what I mean by that is you can imagine uh participation being aimed at improving government decision-making you can imagine it being aimed at um making people feel better about their
It's one monthly payment and one student loan servicer. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a federal government agency .
that didn't respect the diversity that we now have in our country. And thankfully, the government agency that's in charge of recognizing these names is very well documented. They've been around since 1890.
that what is that what B taught you told you uh the rules very specifically were you could not have more than 10% funding from a government agency oh I didn't no you could you could have what's that truth comes out yeah the rules very specifically you could not yet you had to you had to
The other side would be happy that it was failing. The VA, as a government agency and sensitive to its cost structure, is actually doubling down on its open source instance of its Vista software package
But there's rain that appears. And I think that it's NASA's job as a government agency to make sure the information is there for everybody to use,
They live in San Francisco. And there are various battles between a US government agency that wants it illegal and a foreign power that may or may not be using it for mind control.
And we learned later as we as this world woke up to us as we could see what was all around us in a different way, that you had a clustering effect throughout the country. And the clusters would be clustered around a government, a big government agency , but then sub-agencies would come and grow up near the big agency, the ones that worked with it and then companies would relocate and develop around them too, because they were now the growing contractor base, which we knew existed, but we didn't know to what extent it existed
That was the agreement, the promise that I made to them. So something happens. It's the United States government did it, or the CIA did it, or some formal government agency did it.
I'll leave you, we can open up to conversation, but I'll tell you just one story that may be my favorite story of the whole book, which took place right here in this neighborhood cable companies. So you actually have a government agency that is responding to customers in this way.
privacy measures that product lead, or policy lead in a government agency at the state or federal level are subject to are fundamentally different,
And people don't like to hear, start with the government agency .
We had the latest and greatest in spacecraft hardware, but this being a government agency , the inside was not as shiny.
And to make matters worse, there is a very secretive government agency called Wildlife Services.
So there was the National Lab Office, and so that's what I alluded to before. So anybody outside of NASA, whether it's another government agency , or a private company or a public company, or an individual who has a good use for the Space Station platform can go through the National Lab Office.
Funded by visionary, early government spending that allowed them to build these collaborative networks. Very few people who were actually working on the Internet in its formative years were working inside a government agency . They were all outside, many of them in universities, and they were working in that really venerable tradition of open source, peer
which is good I will get more into fannye later but Fanny May is a a government agency that buys Home
And what I have, and I think we're going to get eventually, is a new government agency that will have some jurisdiction
The last old railroad empires, they bankrupted in the 1970s, and they were ultimately folded into a government agency called Conrail.
We always hear, "Oh, that company should have been more adaptable to changes", "That organization should have been more adaptable", "This government agency needs to be more adaptable."
But just to give you a sense of like the diversity of skills that non-profits, whether it's you know a school, whether it's a non-profit, whether it's a government agency , what they