Status: activeType: 🏛️ civic techCountry: Australia Website: www.codeforaustralia.org

Status	active
Type	🏛️ civic tech
Country	Australia
Website	www.codeforaustralia.org
Contact	info@codeforaustralia.org
Concepts	E Government Radical Transparency
Last activity	2026-06-07 manual personally know it exist and still running

Code for Australia

Code for Australia (CfA) is a civic tech organisation founded in 2014, modelled on Code for America. Its primary program is a fellowship: placing technologists (developers, designers, data scientists) inside government agencies and non-profits for short-term engagements to help solve civic problems through digital tools.

CfA also runs Civic Makers, a volunteer community bringing people together to build civic technology. Projects have spanned local government data accessibility, climate tools for councils, and public service improvement.

In a structural change, Portable (a civic tech consultancy) took on support of CfA's operations, with CfA's mission remaining unchanged.

Relevance

CfA represents the infrastructure layer of civic tech in Australia — building the human network and institutional relationships that make government-facing technology projects possible. It is a key part of the broader ecosystem that includes OpenAustralia Foundation and GovHack.

Links

• Website: codeforaustralia.org

See also

• E-Government
• Radical Transparency
• Open Australia Foundation
• g0v
• mySociety
• DemocracyLab

History

• 2014-01-01 Founded by Alvaro Maz, Jacob Lindsay and Daniel GrochFounding of the organisation
  Sourcing: High

  Code for Australia is a nationwide civic technology organisation founded in 2014 by Alvaro Maz, Jacob Lindsay and Daniel Groch.

  Founded in 2014 by Alvaro Maz, Jacob Lindsay and Daniel Groch, initially announced as a partnership with Code for America to bring civic technology fellowships to Australian government

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• 2025-01-20 Operations transferred to Portable, with co-founder Alvaro Maz joining its advisory boardOperational restructuring, mission unchanged
  Sourcing: High

  Portable is proud to announce that it will be supporting the operation and management of Code for Australia going into 2025.

  CfA's mission and vision stay unchanged under the arrangement; Managing Director Matt Sawkill joined the Portable team as lead technologist. Over its history to this point, the fellowship/advisory program had produced ~100 Fellows and Advisors and 100+ project partners.

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