Coding the Next Generation of American History
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Code for America recruits technologists to embed in cities like Washington DC, Seattle, Philadelphia, Boston and Boulder to build open-source apps that cities can reuse; the program runs as an 11-month fellowship and focuses on fixing concrete failures such as an Oakland council that cannot search meeting notes because everything is scanned. It cites a surprising demographic gap — 87% over 40 and 60% planning to retire — and claims to address fiscal crises affecting 84% of cities.
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