The Civic Commons: Code Sharing Between Cities
summary
Cities share runnable code and docs via a new Civic Commons repository that already hosts the Federal IT Dashboard code, Open311 API, a geocoder and TrackDC dashboard. Claims include cutting expensive MMIS builds (DC paid ~$50M, California ~$1.6B) and a Minnesota-to-Iowa reuse that halved costs. Six cities commit support; Code for America fellows arrive in February to build and catalog projects, templates and model RFPs and support playbooks to speed procurement and deployment.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00The problem of reinvention
- 1:32Challenges in sharing
- 3:01Introducing Civic Commons
- 6:19Role of third-party support
- 9:20Building the ecosystem
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