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Jennifer Pahlka
American
Public Servant
Born:
1969
About
Government
People
Think
Work
You
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When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.
Jennifer Pahlka
Our
Neighbor
Another
Communities
Helps
Strengthen
It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.
Jennifer Pahlka
Government
You
People
Think
About
Remarkable
Like
Also
Fix
Created
Really
Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.
Jennifer Pahlka
Great
Great Things
Will
Every
Our
Our Lives
Ability
Data
Make
Real
Real Difference
Difference
Aspect
Lives
Things
Right now, if you're a talented developer or designer, government is what you go into if you can't get a better job.
Jennifer Pahlka
Government
You
Better
Job
Better Job
Developer
Talented
Go
Get
Now
Right
Designer
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
Jennifer Pahlka
School
Else
Everything
Everything Else
High
Borders
Geeks
High School
Sort
Always
Camp
Friends
Lived
You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.
Jennifer Pahlka
Government
You
Made
Think
Took
Easier
Citizens
Civic
Something
Simpler
Like
Venture
Process
Might
Confusing
Interface
Product
Use
Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.
Jennifer Pahlka
Age
Cities
Perform
Most
Industrial
Very
Model
Functions
Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.
Jennifer Pahlka
You
People
Internet
Benefit
Everything
Collaborating
Rules
See
More
More People
Consume
Also
Lot
Than
Contribute
Depends
Information
Really
Successful
Across
Many
Works
Platforms
Actually
So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.
Jennifer Pahlka
You
Vote
People
Opportunities
Few
Think
Other
Else
Give
Something
Something Else
Feel
Days
Institution
Like
Partly
Because
Than
Few People
Want
Anything
Them
Really
Means
Help
I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.
Jennifer Pahlka
Big
Think
Citizens
Consumers
Between
Up
Served
As a society, we haven't spent as much time building the citizen Internet.
Jennifer Pahlka
Time
Internet
Citizen
Building
Society
Spent
Much
Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.
Jennifer Pahlka
Game
Business
Events
Opportunity
Tough
First
Before
Enormous
Startups
Spent
Web
Small
Tough Business
Investment
Developers
Make
Around
Times
America
Trying
Hits
Then
Working
Teams
Code
Started
Career
If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.
Jennifer Pahlka
Work
Government
Needs
Simple
Try
Build
Other
Desperately
Way
Complex
Systems
Evolving
One Thing
Ability
Something
Around
Quickly
Thing
Necessary
Starting
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