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Code for America launches online resource for entrepreneurs
This week national organization Code for America announced the launch of BizFriend.ly, a new online resource to help entrepreneurs find the tools to build and grow their businesses …
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Code for America, MindMixer want your ideas for Ideation Nation
Code for America co-executive director Abhi Nemani believes the country is ready to embrace the civic technology movement. Alongside Omaha-based online community engagement platform MindMixer, the nonprofit helping government work better through technology will instill that belief into Ideation Nation, a five-week rally that asks Americans, “How would you improve your community using technology?” …
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With KC’s Code for America project in the works, check out past results
Code for America fellows have started working with Kansas City officials in Kansas and Missouri as part of a regional approach—the first joint application to be approved for the program—to create lasting relationships between the cities and entrepreneurs. They also aim to produce web-based entrepreneurial tools for the government to use. With no word yet…
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Code for America chief of staff sees “civic startup ecosystem” emerging
Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., together are a 2013 Code for America partner city, and Abhi Nemani, the organization’s chief of staff, shared his passion for more connected governments during the final afternoon of our Big Kansas City event last week. “We’re trying to show what’s possible for governments,” Nemani said. The San…
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Code for America’s first month in KC all about “listening, learning”
It’s been nothing but “research and listening and learning” during the first four weeks of the partnership between Code for America and the Kansas Cities, said Ariel Kennan, one of the three fellows assigned to Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo. Code for America is a non-profit organization that partners with local leaders to…
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Code Across America hits Kansas City on Saturday
The three Code for America fellows assigned to Kansas City are organizing an event Saturday in celebration of Code Across America, a multi-day event devoted to civic …
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Meet the three Code for America fellows assigned to Kansas City
A former nonprofit worker, experience designer and software engineer make up the team assigned to the two Kansas Cities for Code for America, a year-long program that aims to help city governments use the web to increase efficiency, transparency …
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Watch MindMixer present at the Code for America Summit (Video)
MindMixer, an Omaha startup that makes a web-based platform for community engagement, is in the homestretch of the inaugural Code for America Accelerator, which concludes with a Demo Day on Tuesday in San Francisco. The accelerator, run by San Francisco-based nonprofit Code for America, is a four-month program designed to give tech-based …
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Code for America chooses Kansas City as partner in 2013 fellowship
Code For America today announced that Kansas City, Mo. and Kansas City, Kan. have been selected as partner cities in its 2013 fellowship. The Code for America (CfA) application was a joint effort between the two cities, spearheaded by the offices of Sly James, the mayor of Kansas City, Mo., and Joe Reardon, the mayor…
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Code for America Accelerator elects MindMixer to first class
MindMixer last week announced it has been chosen to participate in the first Code for America Accelerator, a four-month program run by Code for America designed to give tech-based civic startups the network and training they need to grow. MindMixer, an Omaha startup that makes a web-based platform for community engagement, was one of seven…