This is a unique opportunity to lead a new Roote Project, Civic Abundance.

We believe cities can be a beautiful, safe place with abundant housing, amazing education, and no poverty.

The civic information commons is upstream of all of these issues.

Your job is to catalyze a research community to understand and solve these problems, starting with San Francisco.

I. What is Roote?

Roote is an educational hub and for-public startup studio accelerating the personal and collective transformation necessary for humanity's transition to the Wisdom Age.

1. Our educational hub runs the Roote Fellowship, a podcast, and a newsletter.
2. Our startup studio launches Roote Projects, ambitious projects which catalyze systems-level change for a wiser world.

II. Role Overview

Civic Abundance is building information infrastructure to help cities thrive. You are responsible for catalyzing that infrastructure.

This position is extremely entrepreneurial. We’re looking for a relentlessly resourceful teammate who learns and executes quickly.

If you're interested in leading something new that will maximize your rate-of-learning, please apply!

What You'll Do

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• Solve the 1st customer problem: what’s really happening in my city? Research and build the initial community dashboard that 5% of SF residents check every morning. (15% of Taiwanese use Polis monthly.)
• Solve the 2nd customer problem: how can I help? Work with community groups to showcase key metrics, highlight problems, crowdsource solutions, and mobilize work on those solutions.
• Build a self-organizing community of 100+ researchers who co-create a local Wikipedia for daily urban life.
• Create Race To The Top dynamics between SF and other cities to improve their metrics.
• Network and collaborate with other projects and communities around civic abundance: NewPublic, Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure, Effective Government California, RadicalXChange, Institute for Progress