Code for America Commons

Code for America Commons is a project by Code for America and OpenPlans focused on reducing government IT costs by helping government entities share code and best practices.[1] It was initially launched as Civic Commons as an independent nonprofit organization, but later became a program of Code for America.[1] The project is a coordinated effort between Code for America, OpenPlans, and the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO).[2]

Code for America Commons
EstablishedSeptember 2010
Location
United States
Websitehttp://commons.codeforamerica.org/

Projects

Federal IT Dashboard

The Federal IT Dashboard was launched in June 2009 as a government transparency initiative.[3] According to US CIO Vivek Kundra, it was "a website where you could track $80 billion of IT spending annually."[4] Initially it was only available to the federal government, which used the dashboard to monitor project effectiveness and decide the allocation of resources.[4] With help from the Civic Commons initiative, the IT dashboard was made freely available to all government entities in March 2011.[4]

Enterprise Addressing System

The Enterprise Addressing System (EAS) is a web-based application introduced by the San Francisco Department of Technology to manage the city's master database of addresses.[5] In response to other jurisdictions' expressed interest in EAS, the city of San Francisco decided to open source the system with help from Civic Commons.[6] In early 2011, Farallon Geographics developed a secure solution for EAS using open source geospatial technology.[7]

gollark: It really would be easier to just say "passwords do not match".
gollark: ... why the error codes?
gollark: > Now, question is: If you perform multiple quantum bogosorts in a row and your universe exists still, does that prove the existance of multiple universes?<@236628809158230018> No, anthropic principle, if your universe is unexisted you just won't see the results.
gollark: Bees.
gollark: The advantage of market systems and other decentralized stuff is that they can allocate resources reasonably well without having centralization, which has issues like computing power and not really being able to consider people's individual wants well.

References
  1. "Code for America Commons - About". Civic Commons. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
  2. "Civic Commons Launched to Help Government Share Technology and Cut Costs". DC.gov. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
  3. Elizabeth Montalbano. "Federal IT Dashboard goes Mobile". Information Week. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
  4. "Cost-Saving IT Dashboard Software Now Available to All Levels of Government". Code for America. Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2011-04-20.
  5. "Introducing San Francisco's Enterprise Addressing System". Civic Commons. Archived from the original on 2012-03-12. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  6. "San Francisco's Enterprise Addressing System Is Now Open Source!". Civic Commons. Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
  7. "Case Study: Farallon". OpenGeo. Archived from the original on 2011-03-05. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
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