OPEN SAN DIEGO

Open San Diego's roots lead back to 2009, when founder Jed Sundwall attended a Sunlight Foundation Transparency Camp, and where he was encouraged by Code for America founder Jen Pahlka to use his development of social media strategies for sites like USA.gov locally in San Diego... Sundwall initially focused Open San Diego as an open data library for the city of San Diego. "The thesis is that we want to give developers, researchers, journalists, policy makers and bureaucrats easy access to data that accurately describes the city so they can do their jobs more easily."... We are a Code for America Brigade, which means we're civic-minded volunteers of techies, creatives, business people and other civic-stakeholders that contribute our talents toward improving the way our local governments and community organizations work.