Something Different
The Foundation for Public Code and its partner states and municipalities are collaborating towards a society in which a rich set of open platforms and tools are offered to every resident of a city or state as public infrastructure. We are already helping build services like open collaborative decision-making systems for urban planning, traffic flow simulations, and open budgeting tools. We believe that in the 21st century, digital services will join transportation, energy, and waste management systems as fundamental ways that the city supports the everyday lives of its residents.
A crucial part of this coming digital public infrastructure are open tools and platforms that enable expression, curation, performance, and inhabitation of culture.
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Ben CervenyPresident | Foundation for Public Code For over 30 years Cerveny has been on the forefront of digital design, from operating systems, media applications, web services to digital games. He was a Design Fellow at Samsung, leading a project on room-scale programmable environments, helped design the massively multiplayer game that became Flickr, founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and founder VURB, investigating urban computing infrastructures. Currently, he is building a Foundation to help cities and other public organizations develop and share what we call Public Code, software and policy that is open, legible, and useful at the civic scale. |
