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Video: AustinGO at Nov. 9 Community Technology and Telecommunications

We attended the meeting last night and briefed the commission on the website redesign, Code for America, open data and more. We're grateful for the opportunity to connect with the commission in this way and all the support they have shown us and the project.

Watch the video online.

Austin selected for competitive online technology fellowship program

Leading technology non-profit Code for America has chosen Austin’s municipal government to participate in the group’s 2012 national fellowship program.

City manager promotes Code for America fellowships

In his most recent blog post, City Manager Marc Ott endorsed the City’s efforts to become one of the 2012 Code for America partner cities. He also called for Austin “techies” to apply for one of the organization’s fellowships.

“As our Web team works to build the new site, we have a unique opportunity to involve local programmers through Code for America,” Ott said. “As a finalist for the 2011-2012 program, I encourage you to consider applying for one of their fellowships.”

You can find Ott’s entire blog post on his website. If you’re interested in the fellowship program, check out the Code for America website for additional information or to apply.
 

Calling all tech-savvy civic leaders

Are you a developer, designer, entrepreneur, analyst or researcher who wants to make a difference? Next year, you could be building a new generation of Gov 2.0 apps – apps that will make Austin and other city governments work better.

Code for America recruits the nation’s top talent from the tech industry to spend a year building innovative web applications for city governments.

Austin named Code for America finalist

The City of Austin has been named a finalist by Code for America, an innovative non-profit that recruits top technology talents to build cutting-edge web applications for municipal governments.