Colorado was not the first state to create an office dedicated to building out its digital-government services by recruiting civic-minded techies. Agencies in California and Georgia have been building more “user-centric” online services, websites and forms for years, but the Colorado Digital Service that Gov. Jared Polis announced last year may be of a different breed.
Rather than looking for programmers and software engineers to join government for the long haul, Colorado’s new venture is recruiting technologists who may just want to take a break from the private sector and lend their talents to the state for a year or two.
