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They've thought about working for an NGO, working for the government, but his story, his innovation, really had a strong impact on them.

Back on a spring day in 1889, the federal government held what they called a land run.

And then I went to this website sponsored by the federal government, and I typed in my height, I typed in my weight, and I pushed Enter, and it came back and said "obese."

Now, the balance that I try to fight for, I, as any good liberal, try to fight for first by looking to the government.

Now, the social impact bond is simply saying, if we can get the government to agree, that we can create a contract where they only pay if it worked.

So that means that they can try out new stuff without the embarrassment of having to pay if it didn't work, which for still quite a lot of bits of government, that's a serious issue.

Do you want to also help government find whether there's a better economic model, not just leaving these guys to come out of prison and waiting till they re-offend and putting them back in again, but actually working with them to move to a different path to end up with fewer crimes and fewer victims?

So we find some investors, and they pay for a set of services, and if those services are successful, then they improve outcomes, and with those measured reductions in re-offending, government saves money, and with those savings, they can pay outcomes.

Because normal contracting for things, when you're spending government money, you're spending our money, tax money, and the people who are in charge of that are very aware of it so the temptation is to control exactly how you spend it.

There is a conflict in developing world cities for money, for government investment.

Nine years ago, I worked for the U.S. government in Iraq, helping rebuild the electricity infrastructure.

At the time, the U.S. government had spent more than two billion dollars on electricity reconstruction.

We had experts from every field we thought would be important, including the government, and people that run research centers, and for two days they heard the reports from those five work streams, and talked about it.

And all of this matters greatly, because public safety to me is the most important function of government.

We had bake sales, we had car washes, and we did everything we could do to fundraise, and then at one point we said, you know, it's time that we went to the federal government and asked them to pay for these extraordinary services that are saving people's lives.

So the story begins over 50 years ago with the launch of the first generation of U.S. government photo reconnaissance satellites.

It is seldom, if ever, extended to equally important arguments around the fragility of our present system of government, to the notion that honesty, accuracy and impartiality are fundamental to the process of building and embedding an informed, participatory democracy.

In the U.K., this is such a problem that there was a government report a few years ago that actually said the second biggest offender of wasted food in the U.K. is the soggy lettuce.

Provided it saw little inflation risk from doing so, the central bank would be mandated to match the government's overseas aid payments up to a certain limit.

So it would work like this: If in a given year the government gave 0.2 percent of its income to overseas aid, the central bank would simply top it up with a further 0.2 percent.

He believed that government could be built by the people, and we call those people civic hackers.

And so it's no surprise that many hackers are turning their attention to the problem of government.

You just have to believe that you can bring a 21st-century tool set to bear on the problems that government faces.

And so they did something that's really radical, when you think about how government is used to working.

In one Saturday afternoon, they were able to populate most of the content for most of the frequently asked questions, but more importantly than that, they created a new way for citizens to participate in their government.

And by stitching together my small act with the thousands of other small acts of participation that we're enabling through civic hacking, we think we can reenergize citizenship and restore trust in government.

So when you give citizens a way to participate beyond attending a town hall meeting, cities can actually capture the capacity in their communities to do the business of government.

They can actually build government.

Our goal is to create a global network of civic hackers who are innovating on the existing system in order to build tools that will solve entrenched problems, that will support local government, and that will empower citizens.

This year, we start the process, with the Angolan government, to establish one of the largest systems of protected areas in the world to preserve the Okavango-Zambezi water tower we have been exploring.

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