I started my career in a county auditor's office.

I realized that (non-gov) people tend to think of government as one big thing yet there is not a unified interface to government, it is highly distributed (federated). I saw obvious similarities across the different layers, things I don't think most people are aware of; out of sight, out of mind. Yet we, as citizens feel the impact (pain) of the duplication and don't effectively coordinate / consolidate on the broader scale.

I also studied Public Administration and interoperable systems, which just reified all these patterns even more

I have participated in "opengov" and "civictech" groups, like meetups and Code for America's "Brigades", and many projects that were done for specific local purposes (niche interests) would start by researching and often building the same basic things, things that I think Jurisdictional embodies — the org structure of gov.

GitHub

https://github.com/afomi/jurisdictional/wiki

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J91qbxxcp-eBQeWfHndvNJ5S8CaJmhV_dlirP5xvBE8/edit?usp=sharing

Images