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2011 People's Choice Award: And the Winner is...

Ruth Suehle | OpenSource.com | January 30, 2012

Thanks to everyone who voted for a People's Choice Award winner last week! [Now] that the votes are all in, we're pleased to announce that this year's winner is David Doria...In a very, very close second place was Abhi Nemani...Congratulations to David and Abhi. And thank you to both of you, as well as all of our nominees and every contributor. Read More »

2012: Open Innovation for Government

Nick Grossman | OpenSource.com | February 3, 2012

As we turn the calendar to the new year, we'd like to take a moment to reflect on what we've done here at Civic Commons over the past year, what we've learned, and where we're planning on heading next. Read More »

7 Healthcare Big Data Projects Get Knight Foundation Funding To Push For Public Health

Deanna Pogorelc | MedCity News | January 15, 2014

An online portal connecting researchers with people willing to share their health data, a community health dashboard and a text-based counseling program for teens were the big winners of The Knight Foundation’s $2.2 million health data challenge. Read More »

8 Ways To Open Up Civic Data So That People Actually Use It

Ariel Schwartz | Co.Exist | June 24, 2013

The Knight Foundation just gave $3.2 million to organizations that are making public data more useful. These are our favorites. Read More »

A Look Inside Chicago's Open Gov Hack Nights

Megan DeGruttola | OpenSource Delivers | December 4, 2014

The government’s open data movement, sometimes referred to as Gov 2.0, has come a long way in the past few years. Most are familiar with the Obama administration’s open data initiative and the launch of Data.gov, but there are extremely active open data civic movements taking place in cities across the U.S...

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After Building Apps For Harvey Victims, Houston's Techies Set Their Sights On Irma

Alex Konrad | Forbes | September 6, 2017

After more than two days on a boat rescuing upwards of 50 victims of Hurricane Harvey from flooded houses, Matthew Hager decided to try to help his hometown of Houston the best way he knew how: with tech. Though Hager and his friends looked like a ragtag volunteer rescue squad, he’s a web designer by trade. With other volunteers from his design shop Poetic Systems, he built what has become one of the central hubs for information on Harvey recovery, HarveyNeeds.org. Hager and his crew are hardly alone. As Harvey hit, Houston’s startup community went into overdrive, connecting over a volunteer Slack channel and gathering around impromptu hackathons to build at least 20 new apps and sites designed to provide support to residents, first responders and the city...

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Citizinvestor: Disrupting How Governments Fund Civic Projects

Jordan Raynor | GovLoop | June 11, 2012

I am thrilled to be involved with an exciting new project called Citizinvestor (currently a candidate for Code for America's Accelerator) and I couldn't think of a better place to gain valuable feedback on the soon-to-launch product than right here at GovLoop.

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Coding for Heroes: Second Lady Biden, Chopra, Levin Praise Civic Technologists

Luke Fretwell | Fed Scoop | January 20, 2012

Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Department of Veterans Affairs Chief Technology Officer Peter Levin visited the headquarters of civic technology nonprofit Code for America in San Francisco on Wednesday, where they praised the contributions of citizen developers, including work related to the Joining Forces initiative created by Biden and First Lady Michelle Obama in April 2011.

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Exec: Resurrecting Healthcare.Gov Meant Dealing With Bureaucracy, Incompetence, Politics

Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | September 17, 2014

The U.S. government’s IT infrastructure is broken, and it’s hurting the country. Applying basic engineering skills that are common at Internet companies could change that situation...

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How Government Can Share and Re-Purpose Open Source Civic Software

Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | January 6, 2012

Civic Commons Director Nick Grossman and 2011 Code for America Fellow Jeremy Canfield give an overview of the new Civic Commons Marketplace, a repository and apps showcase for open source civic and government development projects. The marketplace launched in December.

How Hackers Can Code a Better America

Luke Fretwell | GovFresh | July 5, 2012

With the launch of the new Code for America Brigade website, we asked Program Director Kevin Curry to talk about its mission and how you can bring ‘civic hacking’ to where you live. Read More »

How To Cash In On Government As A Platform

Abhi Nemani | Tech Crunch | June 2, 2012

At TechCrunch Disrupt New York , the White House’s chief geeks — CTO Todd Park and CIO Steve Van Roekel — rang the bell for Silicon Valley to step up and help recode the federal government with their Digital Government Strategy. They hammered home the need for developers to leverage the mountains of open data coming out of the government to create new services and products for consumers.

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How To Hack The System To Change Government

Tom Shoop | Nextgov | July 25, 2013

Jennifer Pahlka, the founder of the Code for America initiative who is now working for the Obama administration as deputy chief technology officer, has been in government for 37 days -- 51 if you count weekends. Read More »

Meet Jennifer Pahlka: She Wants To Reboot The Way You Work

Katherine McIntire Peters | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Jennifer Pahlka [...] announced on her blog Thursday she will soon become a fed. She'll join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as deputy chief technology officer for government innovation under U.S. CTO Todd Park, a man she says has been an inspiration. Read More »

My Own Fellowship Year

Jennifer Pahlka | Code for America | May 30, 2013

Other than being a parent and a partner, Code for America has been the most important thing in my life for the past three years. I can’t imagine that it won’t remain so for many years to come. Read More »