interview with Carolyn Lawson

on YouTube ↗13m

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California says its Web Master User Group grows to about 500 members with 100 active each month and a demo widget drives 2 million impressions in two months; DMV videos reach 9 million views on YouTube and an iPhone DMV app had ~100 soft‑release downloads (later ballpark 5–10k). The state hosts Recovery Act reporting in the Amazon cloud with a mapping startup overlay, exposes ~100 million data records into a planned searchable portal/API, and reports 5.2 million claims processed online (about 80% of 6.5M).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:41California innovation in budget crisis
3. 1:21Viral government content on YouTube
4. 2:26DMV YouTube videos and iPhone app
5. 3:50California mobile eServices expansion
6. 4:55Open government in California
7. 6:38Balancing open data and privacy
8. 8:23Moving public data to cloud
9. 10:49Twitter for unemployment assistance
10. 12:39Summary

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