Blueprint For Better Government 
http://gov-ideas.com/
Center for Government Interoperability
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Job Training and Startup Accelerator
We thank our amazing sponsor, Heroku, the
premiere scalable cloud application platform, heroku.com.
We've been fortunate to have them on board and are humbled by their
early support of our program.
Much of our work is made possible only through the support of Heroku
and individual volunteers who work with us to build our vision of
connecting job trainees and startups to elevate worldwide innovation
and entrepreneurship.
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Jumpstarting innovation and generating new jobs
The Center for Government Interoperability is establishing a job training
program. Job trainees will do web design and app development for startups
that cannot afford developers or attract investment firms.
The Center’s projects primarily involve government improvement,
but the employment program was initiated due to the broad scope of societal
benefits.
Job training and startup assistance is totally free for anyone from any
country. We do not earn revenue or obtain personal gain from this program
as it is strictly a for-public-good project.
Please contact us
if interested in volunteering or sponsoring us. We can always use additional:
- Startup advisors
- Software developers: Django programmers, graphic designers
- Assistance in designing our computer certificates: recruiters, developer
companies, and computer science/MIS professors
- Contracts experts to assist startups and developers with their working
agreements.
Discussion forum - https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/employment-startup-program
We are crowdsourcing help for:
Background
- There are thousands of startup ideas that cannot be implemented due
to software developer costs
- There are millions of unemployed, many of whom could learn programming
from free sources
Basic Concept - Employment Program managed by CFGIO
- Unemployed novice programmers learn from free sources and start writing
beginner apps in one year, and write moderately well after 2 years.
College students majoring in computer science/MIS would be ready immediately.
- Unemployed novice programmers offer services to startups with simple
app or web-design requirements.
- CFGIO sets up centralized database to match learning programmers with
startups, and creates processes to help them work effectively together.
- Startups offer equity or delayed transaction-based payments to learning
programmers.
- For startups, the goal is to give them an affordable prototype that
allows investors to evaluate and fund the production version of their
idea. For students, it gives them real-world learning experience and
qualifies them to apply for entry-level programming positions, or to
start their own startup.
Benefits
- Backlog of programmer positions that need filling is addressed
- Unemployed become employable with high-paying future-proof skills.
- Startup ideas are enabled
- Worldwide innovation is expanded
Implementation
- Create app to bring job trainees and startups together
- Design curriculum - identify Youtube and other free training materials,
which now days are high quality, for each programming language
- Mentor students
- Create environment where students learn from each other
- Design certification process
- Design processes to enhance programmer/startup collaboration
Volunteer Heroes
Programming and business planning is being generously provided by these
great volunteers:
- Muhia Njoroge
- Paul Backhouse
- Giussepi López
- Cesar Carlos
- Peter Connolly
- Dairon Medina Caro
- Gustaf Elbander
- Nagesh Prabhu
- Hari Palappetty
- Russell Reinsch
Resources
- Programming environments are cheap or free: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/billing
and https://openshift.redhat.com/app/.
- Programming forums already provide assistance to programming beginners.
Problems our project aims to solve
- Unemployment
- Innovation hindered by lack of programming resources
Our program provides a viral way of improving at a large scale, the employment
situation, and expanding innovation.
Question: What Do You Propose To Do That Others Do Not?
Reciprocal fulfillment of two critical needs. It is the only program
that has a method for bringing together two groups whose requirements
create a synergistic solution for each other at the scale of the Internet.
Workflow of how people will use the site
by Alex Glaros - October 4, 2012
This morning I read where 700 people applied for one job. Our program
offers those people job training as computer programmers. I have had some
experience with this having taught computer science and designed the computer
course curriculum for a small college accredited for the state of California.
After a year, programmer trainees can program a little, and after two
years, trainees can be ready.
To gain real-world experience, our site matches them with startups with
no money, but who need developers to create a prototype.
Hypothetical Example
Joe and Tina are out of work. Tina used to program in COBOL long ago and
Joe is interested in tech but has no programming experience.
They both work through a list of courses listed on our site and receive
mentoring from already-existing programmer discussion groups (Java, ruby,
python, C, perl, etc.) and mentors that volunteer through our program.
Play-Together is a startup that helps sports enthusiasts find partners
for any sport such as tennis, squash, badminton, etc. Play-Together is
founded by Maria who has no money and can only afford a $10/month hosting
service.
Maria finds Joe and Tina through our employment/startup site and offers
them equity in her business if they build the app and website.
Joe and Tina build a website and working prototype. Regardless if Play-Together
fails or succeeds, Joe and Tina now have real world work experience. They
can apply for jobs that would have been impossible to apply for before.
They can also create their own startup. Maria benefits from either a successful
business, or by not going into debt to start her business. Tina gets a
job as a programmer for Bank of America and Joe gets a job as a web designer
for the city of Seattle.
Thousands of startups could potentially be empowered to succeed, creating
even more employment opportunities. Multiply this by all of the countries
in the world, and the program adds an innovation engine to the the world
economy.
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