Abhi Nemani
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    Public Innovation Academy

    Lessons for innovators — current or future, private or public — with a focus on getting the job done, based on lectures at the University of Chicago, Code for America, and cities around the world.

    Questions? Let's talk
    startups
     
    government

    Working with City Hall

    Guides to the politics and operations of local government
    themes
     
    GovTech
     
    hiring

    GovTech Industry Tailwinds

    Enablers for the government technology industry: changing leaders, staff, and expectations
    jobs
     
    hiring

    Civic Tech Career Resources

    Find opportunities to learn more, as well as jobs, funding, mentorship, and much, much more
    market
     
    data
     
    startups

    Data and Dashboards

    Dashboards, Performance Management, and the Trouble with Different Kinds of Data
    market
     
    data
     
    startups

    Building Open Data Products

    Key design principles for meaningful transparency tools
    data
     
    market

    Government IT Spending

    A practical overview of the trends in the $200B+ in government IT spending
    government
     
    policy
     
    data

    Data-Driven Policy Making

    Myth versus Reality in two slides
    market
     
    data
     
    startups

    GovTech Market Sizing

    Most people get this very wrong, but getting it right is not hard.
    software
     
    agile
     
    procurement

    Permitting & Licensing Tech

    An ecosystem map of permitting, licensing, and code enforcement (PLC) technology

    University of Chicago Civic Technology Lectures

    Part theory, and part technical, with a focus on the characteristics unique to public interest tech, this graduate-level course was designed and delivered in 2019 for the University of Chicago Masters in Computational Analysis and Public Policy (MS-CAPP) program, where I was a visiting lecturer. There were 16 lectures total delivered between April and June 2019. Slides from each class are posted here for viewing, sharing, or downloading, per a Free Culture license.

    • Lecture 1: What is Civic Tech?
    • Lecture 2-3: Empathy and the GovTech Ecosystem
    • Lecture 4-5: Applying Lean Principles to Civic Technology
    • Lecture 6: How Civic Data Works
    • Lecture 7: Why and Where Open Data - The Value Proposition and Accessibilty of Open Civic Data
    • Lecture 8: Which and How Open Data - The Mechanics of Open Civic Data
    • Lecture 9: Optimizing Open Data - Best Practices in *Publishing* Open Data
    • Lecture 10: Open Data, Simply Seen - Best Practices in *Visualizing* Open Data
    • Lecture 11: Digital Services, an Introduction
    • Lecture 12: Digital Services, Where and How
    • Lecture 13: Growth and Adoption - Getting to Users
    • Lecture 14: Procurement, Challenges and Opportunities
    • Lecture 15-16: Application and Impact Sustainability

    Videos

    Watch more & get in touch for webinars or lectures

    Case Studies

    Law Enforcement
     
    Communications
     
    Go-to-Market

    SPIDRTech: How GTM Research Shaped Product Strategy: Starting with a simple text reminders, SPIDR Tech's platform now enables realtime communication and feedback between the community and government

    government
     
    economic development
     
    innovation

    Putting Sacramento On the Map: Case study on building an economic development strategy to level-up a city's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem

    government
     
    data
     
    COMPStat

    Enabling Data-Driven Decisions in LA: How building a showpiece unveiled the real challenges of PerformanceStat

    foundation
     
    police
     
    procurement

    NJ State Attorney General: Turning Procurement Around to Leverage Existing Tools: Data collection problems can stifle reform efforts that rely on data, such as the New Jersey effort to create an "early warning" system for abuse

    startup
     
    workflow
     
    SaaS

    Letting governments build their own workflows on CityGrows: Accessible and affordable workflow automation for local governments to replace paper forms and pdfs in minutes

    startup
     
    citizen sentiment
     
    AI

    ZenCity: Focusing on the User: Helping a a groundbreaking data science company understand 'where to play' and 'how to win'

    Let's connect

    You're also welcome to drop me a line directly at [email protected], or book time to connect: abhinemani.com/cal.
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