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What innovations can change America’s voting rates?
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...
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A look inside Code for America
Last week while I was in San Francisco for the Open Source Business Conference I stopped by to visit Code for America. I arranged some office time a few weeks ago when I was planning my travel. This...
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With Mozilla Webmaker, a new generation of coders learns the language of the web
We're proud to launch "Mozilla Webmaker," a new program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks of the web.The goal: help millions of people move from using the...
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Hacking on code and culture: Failure as validated learning
Open source is about more than the code, it’s about the culture. The open culture that many open source communities embrace is entrenched in organizations like Code for America. It’s obvious as I sit...
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Reclaiming public space in your city
My love affair with cities, San Francisco in particular, started early. Though my parents moved from San Francisco to the suburbs before I turned one, we visited the city often. One of my earliest...
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Contest aims to give open source projects a second wind
Which Code for America app could help improve civic engagement in your location? Adopta26.8% (11 votes)LocalWiki46.3% (19 votes)Shareabouts4.9% (2 votes)Textizen22% (9 votes)The Code for America...
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The secret ingredient in open source
Open source has a secret. Do you know what it is? It has to do with a common characteristic found across successful open source communities that set them apart from others.For those that are new to...
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OpenOakland: Another city learns the value of open communication
I recently co-founded an organization called OpenOakland with Code for America alumni Eddie Tejeda. One of our passions was that we both believe that government can and should be much more than a...
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Open source tackles city permit process with OpenCounter
The City of Santa Cruz is the smallest community to ever partner with Code for America, but it had one of the largest problems to solve: how to make it easier to take an idea for a small business from...
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Bring openness to your local government with Code Across America
Code Across America is scheduled for February 22-24. It will be a weekend of community building and moving the needle for more openness in local governments across the United States.Read more...read more
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Open government and civic engagement at SXSW
From the stage of the South by Southwest festival (SXSW), Code for America Founder and Executive Director, Jennifer Pahlka, announced they are now accepting applications for the 2013 Accelerator and...
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Gov 2.0 rises to the next level: Open data in action
For many, Gov 2.0 is about putting government in the hands of citizens. Whether it’s a mobile app alerting residents to a local meeting or checking social media networks to see which roads are clear...
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Civic coding strengthens open source skills
I’ve been thinking a bit too much lately about GitHub and Drupal.org. More broadly, I’ve had my mind on open source + community. Sometimes this is called social coding.Social coding can take on a...
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Hacking the change you want to see
On June 1, the City of Oakland will co-host ReWrite Oakland as part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. ReWrite Oakland will be an all day writeathon that will culminate with the launch of a new...
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On a mission to change the citizen experience
In this episode of the Dave and Gunnar Show, I interviewed opensource.com's lead project manager, Jason Hibbets. He recently self-published a book advocating for citizen involvement in local government...
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Hackers wanted: Code for America deadline for 2014 Fellowship nears
There are only a few days left to apply. Code for America is looking for developers, designers, researchers, data scientists, and product managers for their 2014 Fellowship. It's a chance to make a...
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The rise of the citizen CIO
Are citizen CIOs a partner or a threat to local government? Partners ThreatAre citizen CIOs a threat to local governments or a blessing in disguise? With government IT departments producing more open...
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Open civic dialogue with text messaging
This is the second post in a short series in effort to recognize and celebrate the close of the 2013 Code for America Incubator. This new program was created to support Code for America Fellows as they...
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How a hackathon can transform your community
What started as an uphill battle in Burlington, Vermont on the National Day of Civic Hacking in June 2013, transversed into an understanding between local government, non-profits, the media, and the...
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How to get started in civic hacking
What is civic hacking?Seventy people gathered together one sunny Oakland afternoon to volunteer and improve their city. There were no rakes or yard tools normally seen at volunteer-day events though....
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