Jennifer Pahlka
Jennifer Pahlka
Jennifer Pahlkais the founder and Executive Director of Code for America. Previously she had worked at CMP Media with various roles in the computer game industry. She was the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 conferences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
ocean government layers
Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.
voice hands crowds
Are we just going to be a crowd of voices, or are we going to be a crowd of hands?
government political election
We're not going to fix government until we fix citizenship.
account alone build government processes required technology time
Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.