This storytelling project was with the State of Oklahoma between 2013 and 2014. I was there helping understand their challenges keeping Public Safety officers connected with services and information they need to do their jobs and keep the public safe.
I was there as an Oracle Technical Sales Executive and focused primarily on what the future could be if various technologies were put in place to create a real-time safety net for Public Sector folks and for citizens. I illustrated how things work together vs. how they would work in the future with a system of Panasonic devices including in-car cameras, body cameras, in-car data capture, and a substantial Oracle technical stack and infrastructure to manage complex events, video processing, and evidence collection for use in legal proceedings.
There are a lot of moving parts when dealing with the government and the population of a US state so graphic novel format works really well to paint a big picture and illustrate explicit interactions where technologies can be put in place to run a little more smoothly.
Here's how we began to set up the story. There are a few blogs illustrating the whole story, so please check them all out to get a sense of what we created and how it went.
The first step is to pick a city, here we chose Oklahoma City, OK
The second step is to choose players of one side of the story to tell, here we chose the Oklahoma State Troopers and a man driving a car on a main highway.
Here we choose a bunch of people shopping, going about their daily routines.
The last story set up step is to choose a unifying event that has a beginning, middle, and end of the story so we can show real-world interactions and notice opportunities for things to go in various directions.