Calling all repo managers, coders, designers, civic-minded volunteers: we want you! Today we’re kicking off The Great American Civic Hack—a three-month campaign to clean up the top civic repos and make them fork and merge ready. The campaign will feature four to six repos for national collaboration. The managers of these repos will identify issues,Read… Read more »
Greg Hermann’s official title at the City of Carlsbad is Senior Management Analyst, but his City business card identifies him as “head nerd.” Here’s what he does, in his words: I work in the City Manager’s Office and help support technology and innovation initiatives. I consider myself a municipal coder, combining a passion for technologyRead… Read more »
This article is cross-posted from http://hackforchange.org/blog. The National Day of Civic Hacking is bringing together thousands of civic hackers on June 1 – 2. But what is a civic hacker, anyway? “Civic hackers” as we think about it for the National Day of Civic Hacking are technologists, civil servants, designers, entrepreneurs, engineers – anybody –Read… Read more »
I believe that the future of government is one of increased transparency and collaborative problem-solving. What gets us there is creating a culture of participation, in which citizens across industries contribute their expertise to help solve our shared difficult problems. In November I got to participate in furthering open government at Code for America’s “DataRead… Read more »
For the A Team, as our fellowship team is affectionately known as our names start with A, February was about getting to know Kansas City (Kan. + Mo.). How do you learn about a place? Walk its streets? Meet its people? Attend its events? In early February, the directors of a new play about KansasRead… Read more »
This is reposted from the Sunlight Foundation Blog. Since the release of Sunlight’s Open Data Policy Guidelines last June, Chicago, Madison, Montgomery County, and Utah have all enacted open data laws, and the states of Hawaii and Ohio are both in the process of enacting open data legislation. However, the recent amendment of San Francisco’sRead… Read more »
March 31 marked the deadline for local governments to apply for the 2014 Fellowship. It also highlighted the incredible interest in Code for America and the work of our fellows; 49 local governments and one state applied for a coveted spot in our 2014 Fellowship Class. Over the past three months, I’ve had the amazingRead… Read more »
Called “a geek squad of civic-minded number-crunchers” by the New York Times in a recent profile, the predictive analytics team led by City of New York’s Chief Analytics Officer Mike Flowers is pioneering new approaches in the field of civic data. Working out of the Mayor’s office — in concert with the efforts of ourRead… Read more »
March 31 marked the deadline for local governments to apply for the 2014 Fellowship. It also highlighted the incredible interest in Code for America and the work of our fellows; 49 local governments and one state applied for a coveted spot in our 2014 Fellowship Class. Over the past three months, I’ve had the amazingRead… Read more »
Spending a week living on a $32.17 food budget. Shadowing a homeless shelter caseworker. Riding shotgun on a midnight police patrol. Hiking portions of a 110 mile canal trail. Spending time in jail (just visiting). Jogging through the city with the Mayor. What do all of these have in common? They are just a fewRead… Read more »