Sac2050

Sac2050 Shaping the future of Sacramento, together. Why Sac2050? We need better tools. Sac2050.org is an open platform for driving this change. Where do we want to go?

The Sacramento region lacks a shared vision for accelerating quality of life improvements and a platform to track progress toward measurable goals. We believe that it’s time to ask ourselves:

Where are we at? How are we going to get there? We hope that Sac2050.org becomes a civic operating system to set goals, measure progress, and show who’s doing what so that we’re not duplicating efforts. This

will require a new operating model to make collaboration the new competition. What We’re Doing
Inspired by the Blueprint process of the early 2000s that modeled future transportation and land use planning, Code for Sacramento is convening residents to set goals in all quality of life areas:

The Economy
K-12 and Higher Education
Health and Families
Public Safety
Environmental Sustainability
Transportation and Housing

Using open data, Sac2050.org will provide a curated user experience on any civic topic to answer the following questions:

How are we doing? Who’s responsible? How much money are we spending? Where’s the money coming from? What are some current issues? How can I make an impact? The topic could be public transportation, homelessness, high school graduation rates, teen pregnancy, economic development, etc. The goal is to aggregate this information across levels of government and sectors to understand how these issues are addressed at a systems-level.

10/12/2016

Kim McCoy Wade is chief of the CalFresh Branch at the California Department of Social Services. In this talk, which she will also be giving at the Code for America Summit in November, Kim will share h

09/23/2016

Recently, the state of California re-launched its open data portal. We are excited to hear from Zac Townsend, on his role and plans as state Chief Data Officer next week at Code for Sacramento. Join us at The Urban Hive!

http://www.meetup.com/Code4Sac/events/233540015/

Join us as we welcome Zachary Townsend, California's new Chief Data Officer, to our hack night! As the state's inaugural CDO, he is responsible for managing the state's open data porta

04/05/2016

Today, MIT Media Lab launched Data USA, the most comprehensive visualizations of US public data to date. It, like Sac2050, intends to use data "to understand and visualize the critical issues facing the United States... to use this knowledge to inform decision making among executives, policymakers and citizens." Think about what meaningful stories we can construct about quality of life in Sacramento, and use these data to drive quality of life improvements in our own backyard.

http://datausa.io/profile/geo/sacramento-ca/

Sacramento is a Census designated place in Sacramento County, CA. Sacramento borders the neighboring places of Arden-Arcade, CA; Elk Grove, CA; Florin, CA; Freeport, CA; Fruitridge Pocket, CA; Lemon Hill, CA; McClellan Park, CA; North Highlands, CA; Parkway, CA; Rio Linda, CA; Rosemont, CA; West Sac…

03/17/2016

Last week, Ash Roughani sat down to film a video explaining the potential of as part of the contest that will take place at the Emerge Summit 2016. We hope you'll download the MetroEDGE app and vote for Sac2050. The person with the winning video will then get 5 minutes on stage to share more about their idea, and some killer marketing and consulting services to help advance their idea in the community. Since convening and collaboration are the bedrock of Sac2050, we would really love your support! Learn more about the effort on the Emerge website:
http://www.metro-edge.org/metro-edge-announces-three-finalists-to-bethechange/

Metro EDGE announces three finalists moving onto the next round of Pitch for Change, a contest encouraging local young professionals to share their great idea to make the Sacramento region an even better place to …Read More »

Great write-up on http://openbudgetsac.org!
12/10/2015

Great write-up on http://openbudgetsac.org!

In an era when government hackers are often associated with international rabble-rousers like Anonymous and WikiLeaks, Sacramento is home to a different breed of civically-minded tech geeks.

12/09/2015

We're looking for organizational partners! Know an organization that wants to get involved with ? Send them over to this link => https://sac2050.org/call-for-partners/

Code for Sacramento is seeking organizational partners to develop and pilot Sac2050.org — a web-based platform for collective impact. Sac2050.org would serve as a civic operating system for the Sacramento region by: (1) visualizing quality of life data, (2) providing rich context about the organizat…

ICYMI
10/28/2015

ICYMI

The Sac2050 Quality of Life Civic Datathon is a half-day event to crowdsource key quality of life indicator data. That data will be used to create a dynamic dashboard (Sac2050.org) as a foundation for a regional conversation about where we’re at, where we want to go, and how we’re going to get there…

The local chapter of the International Association for Public Participation has a meetup this Friday at Hook & Ladder Ma...
01/07/2015

The local chapter of the International Association for Public Participation has a meetup this Friday at Hook & Ladder Manufacturing Co. Check it out!

We are the Northern California chapter of IAP2 USA

Be excited. CityCamp Sacramento is almost here. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/events/415611631926052/
12/30/2014

Be excited. CityCamp Sacramento is almost here. More info at: https://www.facebook.com/events/415611631926052/

Code for Sacramento will host CityCamp, a day-long event focused on innovation and collaboration for government agencies, community organizations and citizens. “Code for Sacramento is hosting a CityCamp because we want to extend our reach beyond …

Using tools from the design world like prototyping and engaging users at the beginning of the process can lead to better...
12/14/2014

Using tools from the design world like prototyping and engaging users at the beginning of the process can lead to better policy outcomes.

Design Council’s Ellie Runcie, the Cabinet Office's Head of Policy Lab, Dr. Andrea Siodmok, and Danish Design Centre CEO Christian Bason, share their thoughts on…

12/09/2014

Heads-up: Public Innovation is now SAC2050, but the kind folks at Facebook require a 14-day waiting period prior to effectuating a name change to a page that has more than 200 likes. In the meantime, please pardon the confusion.

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