This is the talk I did at Seattle Ignite - there should eventually be another video from the fancy Ignite cameras. http://bit.ly/efmYJz
Bear in mind that I am posting it without watching it myself because that is WAY too embarrassing. I hate hearing myself talk. Some people said that they liked it.
These are the slides: http://www.slideshare.net/chachasikes/chach-sikes-civic-slackers-ignite-...
I have a feeling that I forgot to say the following things:
We are building an architecture of sharing.
Seattle is a pioneer in opening up data, but not all of the data/information on the slide with the list of data - not all of those are easily accessible in all cities.