Code for RomaniaCo-founder / VP of Product
Jun. 2016Bucharest, RomaniaCode for Romania designs, builds and manages ecosystems of social change through technology. Our organization has managed to design and consolidate a functional mechanism through which we bring together and direct the huge capacity for IT development in Romania and abroad in order to deliver digital solutions for the problems we face. Our community is approaching 2800 members who, together, form a very varied interdisciplinary group, composed of UX designers, developers, software architects, communicators, designers and researchers working in several key programmes. 1. Civic Labs: The main targets of Civic Labs are: (1) to generate civic technology solutions in order to solve the main problems through a very detailed process of research, ideation, incubation, prototyping and testing, and to create the necessary premises for the sustainable development of a civic technology infrastructure. Tech for Social Good is the second program, in which we bring together a community of volunteers who write code pro-bono in order to bring to life the prototypes designed in Civic Labs. This administration component, clustered in the Critical Civic Infrastructure program, is in fact a constantly growing body of work directed at maintaining key projects that increase the capacity of non-profit organizations. Through the Civic Tech 911 program, we aim to increase the management capacity of CSO to adopt and manage digital solutions. Through the Code for Romania Taskforce we aim to intervene whenever there is a need for a digital response to a major emergency. In the 21st century, any contact with disaster needs functional digital tools to support those on the front lines. The Code for Romania Taskforce is a way of work and a rapid response mechanism that can quickly generate tech solutions designed to help intervention teams or mass communication between authorities and citizens, effectively contributing to the restoration of normalcy.