GSA / participate-nap4

Participate in the 4th U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government
https://open.usa.gov/national-action-plan/4/
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Software collaboration and reuse for government #146

Open philipashlock opened 7 years ago

philipashlock commented 7 years ago

This was originally submitted as a comment by @Atomahawk


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With government as a platform for innovation and services, leveraging the pool of developers in all levels of government to build and share tools by & for civil servants.

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Code for America is an excellent example. With all their builds and deployments, it would allow other municipalities, state agencies, and federal agencies to browse and iterate on tools. Having government as a platform for civil servants to more efficiently interact with citizenry would dramatically reduce the costs of modernizing infrastructure and hiring developer talent. Achieving this would not solve the problem of system and infrastructure maintenance, but it would reduce time spent on new implementations and decrease time spent 'reinventing the wheel.'