THE FUTURE OF GOVERNMENT

摘要

Civic Center How to serve immigrants and new Americans is a pressing challenge for libraries nationwide, but few more so than the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), whose 73 locations serve the largest population of any U.S. system, including about 700,000 immigrants eligible for citizenship who have not yet become involved in the naturalization process. LAPL decided to be a pioneer on this issue and partner with other governmental entities to do it. This July, LAPL served as host for the Civic Innovation Lab's Immigration Hackathon. Part of Mayor Eric Garcetti's #techLA initiative, more than 100 programmers, activists, politicians, policy wonks, students, and residents turned out to "hack away" at issues surrounding local immigration, including creating applications and web interfaces designed to help immigrants meet the challenges of naturalization.