Transparency to get huge boost from new attempt to have start-ups make more efficient government

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Coding Skills Combine With Civic Consciousness to Improve Government

PBS News Hour – Making cities work better through high-tech innovation,that’s the ambitious goal of one San Francisco startup.

Code for America, a San Francisco nonprofit, enlists high tech professionals to work with local governments to create tools to help average citizens tackle hunger, blight and other civic problems. NewsHour correspondent Spencer Michels reports.