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Blog | Code for Change – Innovation pipeline launches June 28th
Join NYU Wagner, Applications for Good and Code for America starting June 28, 2012. Nonprofits and service agencies…enter your challenges! Entrepreneurs and problem solvers…enter your solutions! Win cash, prizes and access to people that can help bring your ideas to life. ... more -
Blog | Code for America launches new Accelerator
Starting today Code for America is officially accepting applications for its civic startup accelerator. The accelerator is designed to disrupt the massive $140 billion government IT market and provide new and better services to citizens. This first-of-its-kind, four-month program will “turbo-charge” select civic startups by providing them a springboard to amplify market awareness of their product, additional funding, ... more -
Blog | Snapfresh Gets an iPad Makeover
For use at points of sale and with service providers, SNAPFRESH opensource project now has an ipad version. It’s great to see the snapfresh team really take this to the next level. SnapFresh.org is a free sms-based app that helps food stamp recipients find healthy places that accept SNAP (food stamps). Most recipients have money ... more -
Blog | We Go, rideshare pilot launches in San Francisco
Last year we wrote about Avego as a model for what rideshare could look like. Citing the high population density of places like government housing and inner city neighborhoods, we could easily see the benefit for several of the interrelated basic needs we cite to bring people out of poverty. Apparently it did not take ... more -
Blog | Proud to support TechCentral SF and military veterans
As part of our regular outreach to the Bay Area developer community, we are happy to support and promote Tech Central SF and their work to bring new media skills to military veterans. This work directly supports our goal to help people get quality jobs. The objective of the event is to support returning Bay ... more -
Blog | Moving forward on civic engagement with CAAM
At Applications for Good we are proud to support other agencies as they help people thrive in diverse circumstances of life. We understand that media plays a vital role informing, inspiring and educating people to make positive change. To this end we co-authored a Challenge Brief withCenter for Asian American Media to develop a mobile engagement app that will accompany ... more -
Blog | 2012, The year of code?
Now for anyone who wants to build Applications for Good there is a simple solution. CodeAcademy is asking you to commit to a lesson per week for 2012 at CodeYear. They are offering lessons in a stepped progression so that anyone can learn. A fantastic opportunity for people of all walks of life to dig ... more -
Blog | More americans have a mobile phone than a passport?
Might as well build a free mobile site… A boon for small business owners and the underserved, who traditionally are using mobile phones to access the internet, introducing Google’s GoMo. Now without coding, anyone can build a mobile splash page too. According to Google’s GoMo loading page, “more Americans own a phone than have a passport”. So ... more -
Contests | New gaming academy partners with us to make games for good
If you believe games and social gaming may have a hand to play in the building a better tomorrow, the “The Games Academy” may be the place for you. Offered by Papaya Mobile and hosted at Parisoma in San Francisco, this three-month accelerated program for game developers is looking to create the next top-grossing social game ... more
