Government.
Inside, outside game.
I wrote a couple of blog posts from the outside to help influence both how government works and how people talk about government technology.
Obama's Broken Technology Promise
From the November 4, 2013 cover article from Bloomberg Businessweek
9 Things You Should Know Before Debating HealthCare.gov,
From Someone Who Actually Launched a Successful Government Website
“Merici is responsible for shifting my entire strategy around technology recruitment.”
- Former US CTO Todd Park
I like to make government tangible.
I’ve been fortunate to be part of some big changes, from helping elect President Obama, to setting up the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), to founding a leading global community of women and non-binary people who work in/around tech.
I love identifying the levers for change in organizations.
Ted Talk 2015 - ‘Big change can creep up on you. Merici Vinton, co-founder of Ada's list, shares her experience of affecting large scale change through compounding small changes.’
Commission for smarter Government.
Panel Chair 2021 - ‘The Commission for Smart Government recently published a policy paper on Better Digital Government, which put forward nearly 60 recommendations for the UK Government to improve tech policy across Whitehall.’
Here’s President Obama giving a damn when we shook hands to celebrate the CFPB’s first birthday.
I love organizations.
I love how they change, mature, develop, regress, and innovate.
Where are the women?
Blog post 2012
How Open Data Is Changing the Banking Industry
Talk 2013 - from O’Reilly Ignite; fuller talk presented at O’Reilly Strata
Chanting for Change
Blog post 2015 - How small changes can change government, organizations, and even elect Presidents
Thanks Obama for giving a damn.
Blog post 2017
The Future is Community-Driven
Panel, 2019 ‘Let's get together: not all communities are created equal’
The CFPB, when we could mostly fit in one conference room