Nick Doiron2012 Fellow

Nick Doiron is a developer focusing on web maps, interactive media, and environmental sensors. Nick has developed and taught open source programs with One Laptop per Child in Uganda, Uruguay, and Haiti. Working with open data, he has produced innovative maps for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in Port-au-Prince, the Cherokee Nation, the City of Pittsburgh, a water research group at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Mongolian offroad travel agency. He was recently a GIS intern at Esri’s Applications Prototype Lab and a student in the Knight-Mozilla News Learning Lab.

Posts by Nick

Your City’s “Open” Sign

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Nick Doiron

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What’s the best way for cities to signal that they’re the place for technology startups to set up shop? Cities are making bold moves this year: This year New York City began developing a new applied sciences campus. This month, Chattanooga launched …

Coders encounter the great outdoors

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Nick Doiron

Golden Gate Bridge faintly seen across the San Francisco bay through the fog

Before a line of code was written, a wireframe was sketched, or a GitHub repo was created, the first Friday at Code for America began with us away from our computers and traveling out of San Francisco to the Marin Headlands. With the …