Government.js - Building the JavaScript Party
summary
Argument: JavaScript and small teams are actually changing civic tech by shipping concrete tools not slogans. Code for America is presented as an open-source engine with 275 GitHub repos and working apps like routeview, blight status, honolulu answers, a budget toolkit and a realtime bus tracker. Examples include a civic startup recollect.net sold to Vancouver, a grassroots adopt-a-fire-hydrant adopted in Boston, and national infrastructure like online voting in Estonia. Proposal: lightweight procurement and government APIs so small web apps can plug into official services.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Civic tech introduction
- 2:49Inside the government
- 5:36Civic infrastructure tools
- 7:32Real-time civic data
- 9:20Efficiency and operations
- 11:53Outside the government
- 13:53The civic startup model
- 18:33Learning from Estonia
- 21:18JS as a civic driver
- 25:00Q&A and conclusion
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