Jennifer Pahlka
Jennifer Pahlka
Jennifer Pahlkais the founder and Executive Director of Code for America. Previously she had worked at CMP Media with various roles in the computer game industry. She was the co-chair and general manager of the Web 2.0 conferences...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
Jennifer Pahlka quotes about
geeks sort
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
experience government interested work
If you are really interested in making government work, you should have the experience of working in government.
long challenges negative
A lot of [bureaucratic] rules were created a long time ago when there were different challenges, and they are now causing negative side effects.
technology government together
Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.
grown tinker
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
generally government local work
We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.
additional centered certainly coming community game strong
There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.