City Share: Code for America

City Share: Code for America 

featuring guest speaker: Jennifer Pahlka

Please join us on Wednesday, September 28th for City Share. 

City Share is a conversation-based speaker series focused on sharing creative solutions to community issues. City Share gives community members an opportunity to dialogue with individuals from around the country using web-based video projection.

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America. The New York Times describes Code for America as "a new nonprofit project...which aims to import the efficiency of the Web into government infrastructures" and tries "to make working in government fun and creative."

For the past year, Code for America has connected the talents of cutting-edge web developers with the people who deliver public services in the cities of Seattle, Boston, & Philadelphia. The City of Seattle and Code for America, are working together to make it easier for civic leaders to mobilize their communities. In Boston, they are improving high school education by connecting the community.The City of Philadelphia has partnered with Code for America to help citizens get involved to support public services. 

Fundamentally, it's all about using emerging digital platforms and technologies to unleash the power (and the inherent need) for citizens and stakeholders to act smarter and more effectively together.

Prior to her work with Code for America, Jennifer Pahlka ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 events for TechWeb, in conjunction with O'Reilly Media, and co-chaired the successful Web 2.0 Expo.

Please join us for this enlightening presentation from 12-1 pm on Wednesday, September 28th at Createhere.

City Share is free and open to the public.

Lunch will be provided.  

Please RSVP to teal@chattanoogastand.com.

For more on this event, please visit our site.