ABOUT THE BRIGADE

The Code for America Brigade is an organizing force for a growing community of civic minded developers, designers, data scientists, and community leaders who will contribute their talents towards addressing the problems we see everday. The technology that we’ll develop together and deploy locally will form a new Civic Web.

Web Platform

• An online portal to connect individuals with local projects and collaborators and to stand up and maintain civic applications.
• Project pages for civic apps with comprehensive technical documentation and strategies for implementation.

Community Engagement

• Brigade teams use events and local area networks to increase adoption and sustainability of open source civic technology.
• Code for America develops corporate, government, and non-profit partnerships that create a pipeline of resources and professional development opportunities for the nodes in the Brigade network.

DEPLOY AN APP. HELP BUILD THE CIVIC WEB.

ADOPT-A-HYDRANT

Built for Boston, this map based web app lets individuals and groups assist firefighters by claiming responsibility for shoveling out hydrants during winter snowstorms.

Written to function as a platform, the app can been re-purposed for any kind of civic infrastructure. Because it’s open source, it can be improved by a community of practice. In Chicago,  the app’s capabilities were extended to include regions in addition to points. This led to Chicago Shovels, an app for adopting sidewalks.

PUBLIC ART APP

Initially developed in Philadelphia, the Public Art App makes it simple and fun to explore the public art in your city by pulling user-submitted information to create an interactive public art map for any city.

Also written to function as a platform, the app can been re-purposed to map other things. In Oakland, it’s used to map the locations of ATMs that’s don’t charge fees.