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USDS and 18F are great but there’s also an increasing amount of state and city “digital service” organizations you could look into, which have differing policie
by pimlottc 4y ago
USDS and 18F are great but there’s also an increasing amount of state and city “digital service” organizations you could look into, which have differing policies regarding remote work. Off the top of my head, I know Colorado and California both have them, as well as some larger cities such as San Francisco, NYC, and Austin. You can probably find one where you live.
https://oit.colorado.gov/colorado-digital-service https://oit.colorado.gov/colorado-digital-service
https://innovation.ca.gov/ https://innovation.ca.gov/
https://digitalservices.sfgov.org/joinus/ https://digitalservices.sfgov.org/joinus/
https://www.austintexas.gov/department/about-innovation-office https://www.austintexas.gov/department/about-innovation-offi...
https://www.nyc.gov/content/oti/pages/ https://www.nyc.gov/content/oti/pages/
On the non-gov side, there’s Code for America. They oversee a network of local “brigades” of volunteers working on all sorts of projects, such as automated marijuana crime expungement in places where it has been legalized.
https://codeforamerica.org/programs/criminal-justice/automatic-record-clearance/ https://codeforamerica.org/programs/criminal-justice/automat...
https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/ https://brigade.codeforamerica.org/
They also run a major conference of civic tech orgs every year, bringing together both private and public sector groups.
https://summit.codeforamerica.org/ https://summit.codeforamerica.org/
Outside of the US, there are many other similar groups, such as Code for Africa, Code for Germany, etc.
https://codeforall.org/our-global-network/ https://codeforall.org/our-global-network/
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