Posted on March 27, 2013 by Kevin Curry in Brigade, Event, Get Involved
What is it? By now readers of this blog have likely heard of National Day of Civic Hacking, a.k.a., Hack for Change (hackforchange.org). The announcement from The White House received a boost of attention in online media. If you missed …
Posted on July 26, 2012 by Jennifer Pahlka in #meta, Fellowship, Get Involved
“Impatient with how America works, but sleeves are rolled all the way up.” – 2012 Fellow Michelle Lee’s Twitter bio Why code for America? In this question, code is a verb. It’s not “why does Code for America exist?” but …
Posted on July 4, 2012 by Kevin Curry in Brigade, Civic Hacking, Get Involved
YOYO: You’re On Your Own At midnight on July 4, 2012 I issued the following command: “git push brigade master.” That means I sent a command to to redeploy the Brigade website from its code repository on GitHub. The new …
Posted on June 25, 2012 by Nigel Jacob in Boston, Civic Hacking, Get Involved, Gov2.0, Guest Post
Government is an enterprise of people serving people. This isn’t news, but it is often overlooked as we try to determine how to make our government more responsive to the needs of the people it serves. In this age of …
Posted on July 4, 2011 by Tyler Stalder in Get Involved, News
Here’s to you, Betsy… The US flag symbolizes both diversity and unity: 13 original colonies, 50 states, 1 USA. At Code for America, we wanted to honor the flag and the diversity it represents using the technology we love. So, …
Posted on June 24, 2011 by Anna Bloom in Get Involved, News
Where does community begin? It’s a question we’ve been asking ourselves a lot. With nearly all our projects, what we we’re aiming to do in cities is to help them use the Internet to harness the power of cognitive surplus …
Posted on May 31, 2011 by Abhi Nemani in Get Involved, News
We believe in bringing together smart and passionate people, and motivating them to take on hard problems with hard deadlines; that’s our fellowship — 20 fellows, spending the year tackling some interesting civic challenges. An upcoming event, however, aims to …
Posted on May 25, 2011 by Abhi Nemani in Get Involved, News
Elsewhere you’d be given a product to market, or maybe even a brand. You’d be given goals like tailoring messaging for an audience segment, optimizing a landing page, or increasing market share 0.001%. And, sure, here you’ll be able to …
Posted on May 24, 2011 by Jennifer Pahlka in Get Involved, News
So I’m really excited that Oakland is finally having its own hack day on June 4th: Code for Oakland. The event was inspired by the FCC’s Apps for Communities contest, which was announced by FCC Chair Julius Genachowski in Oakland last month. There’s so much that can be done to make Oakland’s data useful to citizens. Let’s prove that.
Posted on May 3, 2011 by Abhi Nemani in Get Involved, News
This week is Public Service Recognition Week, and together with our friends over at GovLoop, we are asking everybody to let the public service men and women in your life know how much you appreciate their work, and give them a (digital) high five for everything they do. Check it out and show some love: http://welovepublicservice.org. They deserve it.
Re-thinking Government Tech as Civic Products
Hack for Change & The Ingredients of a Successful Hackathon
Code for Oakland: June 4th
