Title: I am soon taking a whole year off from client-work (a kind of &quot;sabbatical&quot;) and I&#x27;ve been looking all over the interwebs for ways to help my local government &#x2F; city through my skills as a front-end developer and designer... I&#x27;m stuck!<p>Does anyone know where to start finding problems that a local government might be facing and would like solutions (prototypes)? Has anyone tried this and would be willing to share their experience?<p>Sidenote: I recently got the chance to sit down with the Head of Social Service &amp; Care of the city I live in (2nd largest city in Denmark, Aarhus) who was &quot;mindblown&quot; about the fact that developers and designers actually would want to help out their communities and the local government. She said that they had many issues they could list publicly for anyone to jump on.<p>That made me think; I could make a non-techie-friendly platform for local governments to post their problems (maybe as a GitHub repo), embed it on their website and make it easy for developers and designers to fork a problem they&#x27;d like to work on, notifying the local government whenever something is released?<p>But that would take local governments to sign up and developers &#x2F; designers to begin solving problems that matter to their local society. Might be worth a shot though?<p>I&#x27;ve already looked at Random Hacks of Kindness, Code for Good and similar, but it&#x27;s not quite what I have in mind.<p>I know from experience that public healthcare can greatly benefit from prototypes and concepts made by freelance developers, which gives them major leverage against the large companies who they are often ball-and-chained to whenever they need IT-solutions. Many of these solutions have again and again proven themselves way too costly, bug-ridden, outdated and incredibly user-hostile. <i>rant</i>.<p>Any ideas are appreciated and I hope you&#x27;ll all have a great weekend! :-)<p>- Anders
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