{"id":45347,"date":"2023-10-20T15:42:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/code-for-australia-secures-450000-for-round-two-of-its-victorian-government-program-but-theres-a-catch-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:42:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:42:48","slug":"code-for-australia-secures-450000-for-round-two-of-its-victorian-government-program-but-theres-a-catch-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/code-for-australia-secures-450000-for-round-two-of-its-victorian-government-program-but-theres-a-catch-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Code for Australia secures $450,000 for round two of its Victorian government program \u2014 but there’s a catch – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Victorian Government will inject $450,000 into a program that will see nine of the state\u2019s best women coders, programmers and user-experience designers come together in a bid to improve public services.<\/p>\n
The program will be run by Code for Australia, which was announced as the recipient of the funding at an event at Envato’s Melbourne office on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a continuation of Code of Victoria One, in which we embedded talented technologies into three different government agencies to redesign services,\u201d Code for Australia co-founder Alvaro Maz tells StartupSmart.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to be the same principles [this year].”<\/p>\n But this time around, all the participants will be women.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Code for Victoria II \u2014 Women in Tech Program will ensure the brightest and best women coders and technologists get their chance to work alongside our public servants to improve government services,\u201d said Special Minister for State Gavin Jennings in a statement.<\/p>\n According to the state government, just 20% of tech workers across Victoria are women \u2014 statistic the government hopes to change by backing this program. The $450,000 investment comes out of Victoria\u2019s $11 million Public Sector Innovation Fund.<\/p>\n The six-month Code for Victoria program aims to drive collaboration, transparency and new forms of citizenship by connecting startup and tech talent with various government departments such as Legal Aid and Parks Victoria. Code for Australia also has high profile tech partners such as Google, Slack and Adobe.<\/p>\n The program\u2019s first chapter, Code for Victoria I, received $365,000 from the Victorian government<\/a> and teams built a range of new solutions, including an app that helps vulnerable people connect with legal support and reduces the time involved with client-facing tasks by about 30 hours a week for case workers.<\/p>\n