Posted on February 21, 2012 by Logan Kleier, City of Portland in Commentary, Guest Post
City CIOs can be powerful forces in city government. They help cities harness the power of technology to do business in a more cost effective and more transparent manner. However, progress can be hard to define. Technologies come and go. …
Posted on February 16, 2012 by Jonathan Minter, City of Raleigh in 2013, Commentary, Guest Post
The City of Raleigh, N.C. has a long history of engaged and well-educated citizens, transparent governance, and economic performance. As a neighbor of the Research Triangle Park, Raleigh has also become a hotbed of technology companies like Red Hat and …
Posted on February 15, 2012 by Lance Ahern, City of Anchorage in Commentary, News
We live in the world of the Singularity. All of us involved in Technology and IT know that the Haves are pulling away from the Have Nots. Exponentially. Ninety nine percent of US cities are like Anchorage. We have some …
Posted on February 2, 2012 by Ben Sheldon in 2012 fellows, Chicago, Commentary
This weekend the Code for America fellows shipped out. As one of the four members on Team Chicago, I arrived at O’Hare on Saturday night with a month’s worth of luggage in tow and caught a taxi to what would …
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Logan Kleier, City of Portland in Commentary, Guest Post
Data is the building block of every decision. Cities rely on meaningful data to make all kinds of decisions from where to spend money on road repairs to the deployment of law enforcement resources. In theory, cities hire Chief Information …
Posted on January 27, 2012 by Joe Merante in 2012 fellows, CfA Institute, Commentary
During January all of the fellows participated in the 2012 Code for America Institute, a month of training, team building, skills sessions, guest speakers and much more. More specifically, we discussed strategies for identifying pain points in cities and how …
Posted on January 19, 2012 by Prashant Singh in 2012 fellows, CfA Institute, Commentary
In the second week of the Code for America 2012 Fellowship, we had some great guests and speakers. Many of them stressed the importance of good communication fairly explicitly. But we’ve had a lot of implicit indication of what a …
Posted on January 11, 2012 by Alicia Rouault in 2012 fellows, Commentary
Before we parachute into City Halls across the country, our class of newly-minted 2012 CfA fellows had the opportunity to hear Eric Ries speak on lean startups, Tim O’Reilly on open government, and David Binetti on launching usa.gov. Some of …
Posted on December 7, 2011 by Lauren Reid in Commentary, News
When you need an automated external defibrillator (AED) you don’t have time to search around or wait for one. It’s a matter of life or death and each second counts. Whereas in the past, you’d have to wait for first …
Posted on November 30, 2011 by Michelle Koeth in Commentary
As I was packing up my work notes, thumb drives, and books a few weekends ago to fly back home, and consequently being flooded with memories of this year, I also began thinking – who is going to read a …
Why Raleigh is Applying for Code for America 2013
Fast and Far, Together
