By Dave Nyczepir
RouteFifty
Boston’s two-year plan to connect the city’s youth with summer employment isn’t just about providing thousands more residents with jobs, but also figuring out how metro stakeholders can perfect civic technology collaboration.
Code for Boston had been holding informal, weekly “coding nights” for a while when the Metropolitan Area Planning Council was encouraged to apply for a new $200,000 grant at last year’s Code for America Summit.
Having now been awarded the first Civic Tech and Data Collaborative grant along with St. Louis, Missouri, Boston is currently collecting feedback—set to be reported this fall—on its youth jobs program to streamline the application process and potentially develop matchmaking.
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