Pull Request your government
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CityLAB Berlin builds open source prototypes, publishes them on CityLAB GitHub and helps administrations move from fixed-price procurement to agile, user‑tested development; concrete outcomes include the tree‑watering platform Gieß den Kiez with 700,000 trees mapped and a Leipzig fork in production, a Stadtpuls IoT beta for sensor data, and a Digital‑für‑Euch service used by ~200 organisations after 400 workshop participants. Work focuses on service design, prototypes, user testing and producing tender‑ready documentation so municipalities can adopt, extend or submit pull requests.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to City Lab Berlin
- 3:18What is a pull request
- 4:03Open source projects to contribute to
- 9:26Challenges in public open source adoption
- 15:45Service design in public software procurement
- 19:22Adopting agile methods in government
- 21:31How to pull request your government
- 23:22Call to action and resources
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