Code for America recruits leading web and tech professionals and recent graduates who have a passion for public service to become Code for America fellows. They accept only 5.5% of applicants into their fellowship program where fellows work with city governments to help fix issues through developing technology solutions. Some ways they aim to fix government include stopping the reinvention of existing solutions, making data more useful, letting citizens help fill service gaps, making bureaucracy more efficient, leveraging demographic trends, and listening to millennials.

2. A New Kind of PublicService

4. We recruit leading web and tech professionals, as well as recent graduates from top-notch schools who have a passion for public service.2011 Recruitment362 Applications20 Fellows5.5% Acceptance2011 CfA Fellows

5. http://c4a.me/earlyappjen@codeforamerica.org @pahlkadot @codeforamerica

6. Cross-Sector Collaboration

7. Fixing government#1: Stop reiventing the wheel

9. Fixing government#2: Make data useful for government

10. Where’s My Bus App?

11. Fixing government#3: Let citizens fill the gaps

13. adopt-a-hydrant

14. Fixing government#5: Make bureaucracy sexy

15. Fixing governmentYou have to understand your bureaucracy to use it against itself. - Chris Vein

21. Fixing government#6: Leverage demographics

26. Fixing government#7: Listen to millennials

29. @codeforamerica @pahlkadotjen@codeforamerica.org