Crowdsourcing Accessibility Maps with AXSMap

Posted on by Jim Craner in 2012 fellows, Commentary, News

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Like many of you, I use the Google Maps application on my smartphone, a lot. Whether I need to locate the nearest convenience store or find the closest BART stop, having a map in my hand with a realtime “you …

Opening Our Skillshares

Posted on by Zach Williams in 2012 fellows, News, Open Source

Part of being a Code for America fellow is sharing the skills you’ve learned with others, which is why I’m excited to announce our skillshares project on Github. Every internal Code for America skillshare from here on out will have …

The Big Arm of Politics

Posted on by Jennifer Pahlka in Commentary

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People often ask me about various innovative efforts to change America’s voting rates, habits, or options. There is a ton of interesting experimentation happening here, from TurboVote to ElectNext to Americans Elect. I haven’t dug in deeply to any of …

Take the Challenge

Posted on by Ryan Resella in 2011 Fellows, Commentary, Open Data

Right now the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) is hosting a Civic Data Challenge. This challenge hopes to “turn the raw data of ‘civic health’ into beautiful, useful applications and visualizations, enabling communities to be better understood and made to …

Nick Bowden: Facilitating Mind Mixing

Posted on by Mark Pan in Accelerator, Civic Startups

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This post is part of an ongoing series about civic startups. What’s a civic startup? Find out. Code for America recently launched a civic startup accelerator to help promote and “turbo charge” civic startups. We’re accepting applications for the accelerator now …

Oakland City Council Votes for Open Data Policy

Posted on by Amir Reavis-Bey in 2012 fellows, News

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On Monday April 30, 2012, Oakland City Council reviewed an open data policy initiative put forth by city councilmember of the 4th District and Oakland native, Libby Schaff. The open data policy agenda report composed by policy analyst Bruce Stoffmacher, …

Moving Cities From “Build or Buy?” to “Rent, Borrow, and Build!”

Posted on by Jim Craner in 2012 fellows, Commentary

As a technology consultant in the nonprofit sector for 10 years, I’ve helped a lot of organizations select and adopt technology platforms and software titles — everything from simple desktop widgets up to full-blown operational database implementations. When I was …

Jonathan Wegener: Plotting Your Exit Strategy

Posted on by Lauren Reid in Accelerator, Civic Startups

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This post is the first in an upcoming series of posts about civic startups. What’s a civic startup? Find out. Code for America recently launched a civic startup accelerator to help promote and “turbo charge” civic startups. We’re accepting applications for …

Kickstarting Art Around. Creating a Community of Curators

Posted on by Anna Bloom in 2011 Fellows, News

Last year as 2011 fellows, we pursued a small idea to build an application that helps you map, learn, and discover public and street art. We worked with city government arts commissions and departments in Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, and San …

Open Data Powers New Citizen Engagement Strategies

Posted on by Mark Headd in Open Data, Philadelphia

Code for America recently launched Engagement Commons to bring together information and solutions from across the country on innovative new strategies for government engagement with citizens. The landscape of tools and strategies for engaging citizens is changing rapidly, as more …

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