Code for America

Recently Mayor Gray welcomed three Code for America Fellows to Lexington to start a ten month partnership.  You can read the press release here.  Code for America is a non-profit that places technology developers, designers, and researchers from major technology companies within local governments to work alongside city staff to solve community issues with new technology.  The issues addressed include citizen engagement, criminal justice, and public health.  Lexington wants to focus on using data to drive more decisions about allocation of resources.  A local Code for America Brigade is at work on some of the same issues.

You can see Lexington’s page with its community partners listed here. Some of the alumni cities include New York, Boston, Chicago, South Bend, Macon, Kansas City and Louisville.

After spending time in the selected cities, the fellows will reconvene in San Francisco to share experience and proposed solutions.  You can read more about the national initiative here.

We welcome Code for America Fellows Erik Schwartz, Lyzi Diamond and Livien Yin to our community.