Code for America Launches Australia Incubator

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Code for America Launches Australia Incubator

credit: Renewable Choice Energy

Code for America, a social enterprise coding start-up, has launched a new branch in Melbourne, Australia.

The Code for Australia will provide a fellowship program an incubator program and a brigade of volunteer coders working on open source projects to promote community consultation between governments and citizens. The primary focus is learning what the public thinks about government services, and why they don’t engage with government consultation.

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