Next Tuesday at 10am PT, we’re looking forward to hosting a webinar to discuss our 2012 City Program, and we are thrilled to announce that the City of Boston’s CIO Bill Oates will be joining the conversation. As a leader in government technology and a strong supporter of Code for America, he’ll be able to share useful insights on the program, why Boston chose to participate, and how the project is benefiting the city.

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Last month we asked residents across America to take action and bring Code for America to their cities through our Citizen Action Center. Well, they certainly did! We have over 60 cities represented on our map, that means people like …

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We know that cities across the country are facing serious and significant challenges, and over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure to get to talk directly with city officials from across the country to get a sense of what …

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Every day we come closer to the start of our inaugural fellowship program. That means that 20 bright and talented web professionals will begin their journey at the intersection of technology and government. And that also means that we will …

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Code for America began with a casual conversation between our Founder, Jennifer Pahlka, and Andrew Greenhill, Chief of Staff in Tucson, Arizona. That conversation launched a growing organization that is striving to help the brightest minds of the Web 2.0 …

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The holidays can be exciting times with lots to do. Our small team here at Code for America is feeling the holiday spirit, and also the crunch! In just a few weeks, we will welcome the inaugural class of CfA …

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In just a few weeks, our inaugural class of fellows will be coming together in San Francisco for the first time. These are folks from all kinds of different backgrounds and strengths, who will be spending a year putting their …

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Is your city facing a fiscal crisis? I imagine so. We are at a critical point where most local governments are not able to provide the same services they could just five years ago. And it’s not just a fiscal …

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Code for America is agonizingly close to confirming our office space for 2011. Regardless of the location, however, there are some things we know we’ll need toget up and running in the space, and we also know that we won’t …

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Local governments are considered “laboratories of democracy” — the places where ideas are generated, tried, and evaluated. Instead of relying on just the one, decidedly cumbersome national government to generate new policy, the founders crafted a flexible federal structure, where …

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