Think together, create together

https://www.slideshare.net/hal_sk/

Make the public service better with civic collaboration.

March 6th , 2014 FINEST startup event in Tokyo

Japanese gov. has to decrease spending.

Transition of primary balances of three countries (1980～2013)

Japan

US

Estonia

But citizen’s demands to gov. are increasing and complicated.

is a civic community aiming to solve local issues using civic technologies

Code for Japan is a platform which is supporting local Code for X communities

Code for ◯◯

・Community building, collaboration with city officers, solving issues..

・Marketing service ・Support local events ・Expand success cases ・Liaison between with Code for America / Central government

Code for X（Brigade communities）

We gathered more than 10 brigades just in half years!

Municipal officers

Developers, designers, entrepreneurs

Citizens

Issues

Provide data and knowledge

Comments and idea

Develop services

Hosting civic collaboration events

http://spending.jp

adapted for126 cities

Those services were created by

civic communities.

Next step: developing web platform

Civic Apps Repository

Civic hackers portfolioCode for X Webpage