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Code for America is a 501(c)(3) civic tech non-profit organization that was founded by Jennifer Pahlka in 2009, "to promote ‘civic hacking’, and to bring 21st century technology to government." [ 2 ] Federal, state, and local governments often lack the budget, expertise, and resources to efficiently deploy modern software. [ 3 ]
Code for America Commons is a project by Code for America and OpenPlans focused on reducing government IT costs by helping government entities share code and best practices. [1] It was initially launched as Civic Commons as an independent nonprofit organization , but later became a program of Code for America. [ 1 ]
Jennifer Pahlka (born December 27, 1969) [1] is an American businesswoman and political advisor. She is the founder and former executive director of Code for America.She served as US Deputy Chief Technology Officer from June 2013 to June 2014 and helped found the United States Digital Service. [2]
Amanda Andrea Renteria (born November 15, 1974) is the current CEO of Code for America. Under Renteria's leadership, Code for America was awarded $100M in coordinated commitments through The Audacious Project and Blue Meridian Partners to modernize social safety net infrastructure. [1] Renteria announced the project at TED in 2022. [2]
The codes were assigned by NIST and each uniquely identified a state, the District of Columbia, or an outlying area of the U.S. These codes were used by the U.S. Census Bureau, the Department of Agriculture to form milk-processing plant numbers, some cash registers during check approval, and in the Emergency Alert System (EAS).
The police version of ten-codes is officially known as the APCO Project 14 Aural Brevity Code. [ 1 ] The codes, developed during 1937–1940 and expanded in 1974 by the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International (APCO), allow brevity and standardization of message traffic.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
The ISO 3166 codes are used by the United Nations and for Internet top-level country code domains. Non-sovereign entities are in italics. On September 2, 2008, FIPS 10-4 was one of ten standards withdrawn by NIST as a Federal Information Processing Standard.