Boulder links with Code for America to improve community engagement

BOULDER – The city of Boulder will pay Code for America $100,000 for a seven-month project aimed at developing new approaches to encouraging and facilitating community engagement from all segments of the city’s population.

Code for America is a non-profit organization that builds open-source technology and organizes networks of people “dedicated to making government services simple, effective and easy to use.”

As part of Boulder’s project, Code for America senior fellow Becky Boone will live in Boulder full-time and work with the city on creating ways for community members – with an emphasis on the traditionally under-represented – to help officials address…