This post is penned by Gabriela Schneider, communications director for the Sunlight Foundation and is cross-posted from sunlightfoundation.org/blog. We’re happy to announce our new OpenGov Grants program to help you fulfill your vision of making government more transparent and accountable. We know how challenging fundraising can be. You start an innovative project using technology toRead… Read more »
This post is written by Jake Levitas, a civic designer, organizer and activist. How a common framework can unite new forms of engagement National Day of Civic Hacking, described by its organizers as “a national event bringing together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs across the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent using publicly-released data,Read… Read more »
More than 11,000 individuals were engaged in National Day of Civic Hacking through 95 events held in 83 cities. The stories are still coming in but we wanted to debrief and highlight some great stories that happened across the Code for America network last weekend. 34 of the 95 NDoCH events were organized by CodeRead… Read more »
Is broadband connectivity a public utility? Getting an education, finding a job, accessing high quality healthcare: increasingly, high speed internet access is a prerequisite to full participation in many aspects of modern life. And yet, a confluence of telecommunications policy decisions and industry dynamics have left the United States with slower, scarcer, and more expensiveRead… Read more »
This post is penned by Rob Davis, a former Code for America intern and civic hacker in South Florida, and is cross-posted from rob.d. Participating in my first civic hackathon in Florida was more than amazing, and to my surprise, my fellow Floridians were actually embracing the idea. “Hacker is a loaded word,” Richard BookmanRead… Read more »
This weekend more than 6,000 individuals from businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies, as well as local citizens will come together to participate in 95 events throughout the United States as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH). This is the largest convening of civic hackers to ever assemble. Code for America is oneRead… Read more »
We’re six weeks into our beta launch of the Peer Network, CfA’s membership-based community of innovators who work in local government. So far, representatives from 42 cities and counties are helping us to pilot the new program. Who are these innovators and where are they coming from? Well, they’re coming from all across the country,Read… Read more »
Other than being a parent and a partner, Code for America has been the most important thing in my life for the past three years. I can’t imagine that it won’t remain so for many years to come. It’s challenging, and inspiring work, and I’m proud of the team we’ve built, the quality of theRead… Read more »
There is an incredible potential hidden in the middle of things. Within our fellowship cohort, the middle of the year is constantly stirring with possibilities, chaos, triumph, and the potential for greatness, even before the fellows’ culminating presentations at our annual CfA Summit. Today, I thought I’d share some on the goings on in KansasRead… Read more »
As the May 31 deadline for our Accelerator program approaches — in the spirit of Paul Graham and Y Combinator’s Request for Startups (RFS) — Code for America is introducing an RFS of its own. Over the years we’ve uncovered a list of civic technology problems we know need solving. We’re revealing this list inRead… Read more »