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Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

It's really remarkable when you think about what we don't like about government, we, the people created. So if we created it, we can also fix it.

Jennifer Pahlka

Cities perform most functions in a very Industrial Age model.

Jennifer Pahlka

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.

Jennifer Pahlka

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Jennifer Pahlka

Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.

Jennifer Pahlka

When one neighbor helps another, we strengthen our communities.

Jennifer Pahlka

If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.

Jennifer Pahlka

So few people vote these days, and I think it's partly because they don't feel like the institution really means anything to them. If you want them to vote, give them opportunities to do something else other than vote, to help.

Jennifer Pahlka

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Jennifer Pahlka

I think there is a big disjuncture between what we are served up as consumers and what we are served up as citizens.

Jennifer Pahlka

We can't do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

Jennifer Pahlka