FTA - Courses | FTA - Free Technology Academy. Engagement Commons. Founder and executive director of Code for America Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America, which works with talented web professionals and cities around the country to promote public service and reboot government. Government Technology named her one of 2011’s Doers, Dreamers and Drivers in Public Sector Innovation and the Huffington Post named her the top Game Changer in Business and Technology the same year. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government, and is a frequent speaker at a wide range of events. She spent eight years at CMP Media where she ran the Game Developers Conference, Game Developer magazine, Gamasutra.com and the Independent Games Festival.
Previously, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media, and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo. Jennifer’s early career was spent in the non-profit sector. About New America. The New America Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute that invests in new thinkers and new ideas to address the next generation of challenges facing the United States. New America emphasizes work that is responsive to the changing conditions and problems of our 21st Century information-age economy -- an era shaped by transforming innovation and wealth creation, but also by shortened job tenures, longer life spans, mobile capital, financial imbalances and rising inequality.
The foundation's mission is animated by the American ideal that each generation will live better than the last. That ideal is today under strain. Our education and health care systems are struggling with problems of quality, cost and access. The country requires creative means to address its fiscal challenges and pay for needed public, social and environmental investments. Too often, these challenges have proven impervious to conventional party politics and incremental proposals. About the Alliance for Innovation | transformgov.org. Discover why "82% of alliance members are above the average rate in their adoption of innovative practices, and over half are in the very high category. " dr. james h. svara, Director, center of urban innovation, arizona state university, in a study of the scope and dynamics of innovation in city government The Alliance for Innovation is an international network of progressive governments and partners committed to transforming local government by accelerating the development and dissemination of innovations.
We seek out innovative practices, challenge existing business models, exchange knowledge, and provide products and services that help our members perform at their best. Together with our partners, International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and Arizona State University (ASU), we promote excellence in local government and build a community of practice in local government innovation. What calls us together? What is possible together that is not possible alone? Let's find out what's working, where. | Civic Commons. Osor.eu migration. In December 2011, Osor.eu was migrated to a new collaborative platform: Joinup. Why was Osor.eu migrated? The reason of the migration to Joinup is to provide public administrations in Europe with better communication and collaboration tools to share experience with interoperability solutions for public administrations, to increase the number of users and to leverage synergies between the Osor.eu and Semic.eu user communities, while optimizing the use of public funding.
Joinup is the result of an action of the ‘Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations’ (ISA) Programme. What is the objective of the platform? Joinup helps European public administrations set up efficient and effective cross-border and cross-sector electronic collaborations. Where is the content of Osor.eu? Former Osor.eu users, will be able to retrieve information on open source software in the Software section of the Joinup platform.
About. We believe that governments can make better use of scarce technology dollars by working together to solve common problems. We’re helping them share their solutions, knowledge, and best practices. Civic technology experts have recognized the benefits of sharing technology among governments and institutions. However, instances of successful collaboration and sharing are still few and far between, in part because there is no easy, structured way to share knowledge about this software, let alone the software itself. There is no one place to go to look for civic software that cities need, and no roadmap to share what they have. Enter the Code for America Commons. Ok, so what is it, really? The Code for America Commons is an information product, made up of the Commons app directory and the Commons Wiki knowledge base: The CfA Commons WikiWhen it comes to civic technology we know there is an answer to your question out there somewhere.
And who built this? How? Every new movement needs heroes.