San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Civic Bridge recruits private sector professionals to volunteer their time to work alongside government employees on critical City issues. Pro-bono, private-sector support can increase the City’s capacity to identify and analyze pain points, provide agile and iterative solutions, as well as increase interest in cross-sector collaborations. Civic Bridge is a cohort-based program, the program builds off of the example set by a number of Cities such as Chicago’s Civic Consulting Alliance and San Jose’s Silicon Valley Talent Partnership .

• Pro bono and volunteer

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups