How to Build a Tech Team to Hack Government Bureaucracy @ Roundtable #3

This event took place on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 2:30 PM UTC.

Open Government Products (OGP) is an experimental team within the Singapore Government that is built like a modern tech company but works on public sector problems. We’ve managed to eliminate paper forms in the Singapore Government, enabled a 96% vaccination rate for 5.8 million residents, and facilitated the distribution of over 240 million dollars worth of relief aid to citizens. We’ve achieved this impact through rapid prototyping and exploiting bureaucratic vulnerabilities. We’ll discuss the designs and tactics used to shepherd products through bureaucratic obstacles, and how to structure a team to maximize creativity and impact in a constrained environment. The most important problems in our society are often the most bureaucratically defended, but all systems have vulnerabilities. To solve the most important problems we need to learn how to hack this bureaucracy for the public good. Hongyi Li Director, Open Government Products, Open Government Products