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Jason Sole, Initiatives Director for Community First Public Safety with the City of Saint Paul, shares thoughts on how people can come together to create solutions at Code Switch.

Before Code Switch, panelist Tawanna Black of the Center for Economic Inclusion answered questions about the value of a hackathon for community solutions.

We want to build more software on our own to solve social and environmental problems, but we know we don’t have all the answers. So we’re asking people on the frontlines of these issues: What’s on your wish list?

Software for Good’s Eddie Glenn will speak at the Minnesota Community Action Partners Conference on the potential of technology for community action, and how “non-technical” community experts have the best software ideas.

When citizens have access to government data, they can come up with new ways to use the data, new programs and projects, and new improvements to public services. That’s the concept behind Geo:Code, a conference on open data, government, and technology happening on March 24 and 25, 2018. (Register here — it’s free!) Now in its … Continued

I’m over the moon about joining Software for Good this week as their new Technical Project Manager! No judgment if you are wondering what the heck that means; it can be a pretty elusive job title. I think this is partly because “Project Manager” is used in so many different industries. Regardless of the industry, … Continued

As a mobile developer, I deal with a lot of different things when I make iOS apps, like Swift, Apple’s many mobile APIs, different device sizes, and so on. In the world of iOS, Apple’s documentation and resources dominate the development community. But a lot of the time, I found myself only needing basic bits … Continued