Episode 11: 11. City of Philadelphia, Mark Wheeler | A journey from Web2 to Web3
Update: 2022-11-04
Description
Mark Wheeler is the Chief Information Officer in the City of Philadelphia. Some of Mark's recent accomplishments are:
- Ensured continuity of government services during the pandemic guiding business leaders to rapidly shift 32,000 employees to secure remote work operations.
- Set smart city vision resulting in 20 private-public partnership projects in two years, four national awards
Set direction for rollout of edge compute AI optical sensors in a Center City business corridor. - Launched city’s first Digital Equity Plan, Information Technology Strategic Plan and Smart City Roadmap.
- Raised $17M in philanthropic funds to setup PHLConnectED program to provide free broadband internet and digital navigator services to over 21,000 households in partnership with Mayor’s Office for Education.
- Explored utility of blockchain with local Web 3.0 startup leaders on proofs of concept for verifiable credentials and decentralized open data storage with FileCoin.
In this episode we talk about:
- How Mark became interested in blockchain technology back in 2018.
- Mark's 18 months of research on how blockchain and web3 could be utilized by local government
- Verified credentials and the multijurisdictional dilemma
- Web2.5 vs. Web3
- State of blockchain and public sector
- Constituant feedback loop
- Using data in cities
- Centralizing data analytics and software development team
- When to outsource staff and when to use in-house staff
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This podcast was created in partnership with the Urban Change Foundation
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