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Is it possible to have standardized city management software? It seems like these cities always have hand written customized software systems.
by TwoBit 12y ago
Is it possible to have standardized city management software? It seems like these cities always have hand written customized software systems.
- mmanfrin 12y agoThe one thought I have is that every city is guaranteed to have different laws regarding its charter/governing contract. That might dictate a lot of how that software interacts. That being said, might be an area to make a killing having a highly-modular City CMS you can sell for half the price of contracted software.
- rtpg 12y agoThe federal nature is a blessing and a curse, since though it's highly variable, you can sell this to one city without getting the rest of the nation to agree on it as well.
- rmason 12y agoHere's a link to software that Code For America has open sourced: http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/free.html#nav-tabs http://www.codeforamerica.org/apps/free.html#nav-tabs There's also some companies doing SAAS apps for cities. I hope Detroit jumps ahead of other cities in using the cloud. Maybe even replace some of those aging computers with Chromebooks.