Neighborland and GOOD Ideas for Cities held a sold out event at the New Orleans Museum of Art on July 12th that featured the results of months long projects focused on four challenges facing the City of New Orleans: Non-automobile transportation. Affordable, accessible, and sustainable healthy food. Disrepair of street corners. Food truck politics and [...]
The i6 Challenge is a federal grant program that aims to encourage groundbreaking ideas to accelerate technology commercialization, new venture formation, job creation, and economic growth. While private corporations and individuals are not eligible to apply for the funding, BioDistrict New Orleans has issued a call for co-applicants which includes individual entrepreneurs. The stated aim of the [...]
Code for New Orleans The New Orleans Code for America fellows are inviting developers, designers, urban planners, community members and more to Launch Pad on February 24th and 25th for a civic hackathon. The hackathon kicks off at 5:00 PM on Friday, February 24th, 2012 and continues all day on Saturday the 25th. Click here to [...]
In November of 2011 we shared the news that New Orleans was selected as a 2012 Code for America city. Since then, the city has been assigned four fellows who are in New Orleans for a few weeks. The fellows are working directly with the Information Technology & Innovation (ITI) office at city hall to [...]
This article is a guest post by Alan Williams of Civic Center and Neighborland & Rachel Heiligman of Transport for NOLA. We all know we should drive less–it’s expensive, it creates pollution, and frankly it can be dangerous. But public transportation in New Orleans is not a realistic alternative for most people. One of the biggest problems with buses [...]
