Notes from a meeting with Leonard Lin of Code for America
In February, several cities / counties had the opportunity to meet with Leonard Lin of Code for America. I jotted down items that were interesting to me, or that I wanted to follow up on after the meeting. Perhaps they will be of use to others as well.
- Seattle, Boston, Santa Cruz are likely candidates
- 2011 calendar year
- Like gov 2.0 (federal level) @ city level
- Goal - “city technology stack in a box”
- Ideas for submission
- Open311
- Service request system
- “city technology stack in a box”
- Virtual town hall meeting / ways for citizens to interact online
- Opening data/transparency
- Create open APIs to City
- Transit tools
- Emergency Management Systems are a huge need , as WebEOC is inadequate.
- Technology choices:
- REST data interchange over JSON
- Thinking cloud to get around technical differences between Windows and Unixes, C# and Java. Ex: MS Azure, Amazon Web Services
- Goal is to build it as open source, published on openMuni.org
- Buzzword: “urban mobility services”
- Data transparency leaders — San Francisco, Vancouver, Seattle
- Interesting sites
- http://www.openmuni.org/
- http://www.everyblock.com/
- http://github.com/ - distributed source code control
- http://www.govloop.com/ - social networking for government IT
- http://www.ecitygov.net/ - eCityGov Alliance - developed by Microsoft
- https://uservoice.com/ - free for government
- http://www.walkscore.com/
Tags: code for america, gov20
