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Civic Innovation Corps 

Civic Innovation Corps

Why Does This Matter?

The Civic Innovation Corps program, created by Coding It Forward, empowers the next generation of technology leaders to work at the intersection of technology and public service in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States. Fellows are given an opportunity to learn about public interest technology and career opportunities with government host offices to develop solutions in service of the public. The City of Long Beach participated as a host office in the 2022 Civic Innovation Corps program.

Over a ten-week period, the 2022 Civic Innovation Corps Fellows provided the City with expertise in software engineering, data analysis, service design, and product management on several high-impact technology and innovation projects.

Below are slides that Long Beach's 2022 Fellows shared during their end-of-summer presentations that explain their projects:

What We're Doing

The goal of this partnership with Coding it Forward is to improve and advance the City's ability to treat data as a strategic asset, leveraging it more effectively for reliable insights and more efficient service provision, and deliver results by strengthening its performance analytics systems and processes.

This partnership will further promote a culture of using data, user-centered design, and industry-best software development practices to create City programs and services and build upon existing foundational City efforts to-date including the Open Data Policy, Office of Civic Innovation, and Smart City Initiative.

To learn more about the Civic Innovations Corps program please click here