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I wish there were a way to volunteer some of my spare time to civic stuff (as a technologist) instead of having to make it my primary employment. I'd do that in
by brundolf 4y ago
I wish there were a way to volunteer some of my spare time to civic stuff (as a technologist) instead of having to make it my primary employment. I'd do that in a heartbeat, and I bet lots of others would too
- Sodman 4y agoIf you're US based, there's Code for America which is exactly that - https://codeforamerica.org https://codeforamerica.org . There are many local, typically city-based chapters who meet up regularly and are formed almost entirely of part time volunteers contributing whenever they have time, to whichever project match their skills and interests.
- brundolf 4y agoThis looks awesome, I'll check it out
- atlasunshrugged 4y agoAlso TechCongress, Presidential Innovation Fellowship, and a few others that have popped up with similar missions/goals. OpenPhilanthropy may do a tech policy fellowship again, if you're in the UK I believe there's a No10 fellowship
- jbothma 4y agoSend me your cv and let's see if a suitable project or task comes up. jobs@openup.org.za