justice40-tool | identify disadvantaged communities

The Justice40 team is taking a community-first and open source approach to the product development of this tool. We believe government software should be made in the open and be built and licensed such that anyone can take the code, run it themselves without paying money to third parties or using proprietary software, and use it as they will. We know that we can learn from a wide variety of communities, including those who will use or will be impacted by the tool, who are experts in data science or technology, or who have experience in climate, economic,or environmental justice work. We are dedicated to creating forums for continuous conversation and feedback to help shape the design and development of the tool. We also recognize capacity building as a key part of involving a diverse open source community. We are doing our best to use accessible language, provide technical and process documents in multiple languages, and offer support to our community members of a wide variety of background and skillsets, directly or in the form of group chats and training. If you have ideas for how we can improve or add to our capacity building efforts and methods for welcoming folks into our community, please let use know in the Google Group or email us at justice40open@usds.gov.