Civic Commons Code-Sharing Initiative Bids to Reduce Government IT Costs

Around the United States, city governments have created a multitude of software. Unfortunately, most of the time the code from those projects is not shared between municipalities, which results in duplication of effort and redundant, static software.

Civic Commons, launched today at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, is aimed squarely at helping city governments share the software they've developed. Civic Commons is the product of the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), Code for America andOpenPlans.