{"id":17244,"date":"2019-11-01T15:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T19:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=17244"},"modified":"2021-01-13T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T18:43:56","slug":"students-to-build-city-of-miami-budget-web-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/students-to-build-city-of-miami-budget-web-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Students To Build City Of Miami Budget Web App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Dade College was awarded a year-long $88,507 grant from New America to create the Miami Budget App.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Miami Budget App, a website app, will allow the community to analyze the financial expenditures of the City of Miami\u2019s yearly budget in English and Spanish.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be a great way for budget information to come to the people, because right now it\u2019s a PDF form that nobody downloads and nobody interacts with,\u201d said David Freer, a programming professor at Kendall Campus, who is leading the project. \u201cThis will be a good way to have more direct democracy where the people can see what the money is being spent on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of student programmers and designers will research, design and develop the website in collaboration with Microsoft, <a href=\"https:\/\/codeforsouthflorida.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Code for Miami<\/span><\/a> and the City of Miami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miami Dade College was one of 27 universities across the United States to receive the grant as part of the Public Interest Technology University\u2019s Network Challenge. PIT-UN is a partnership of 21 colleges and universities aimed at supporting public interest technology projects.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project will undergo a year-long development process until the website\u2019s expected launch next summer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The School of Engineering and Technology will recruit three to four student programmers and one designer with experience in their fields. They will receive a $2,500 stipend per semester. The students will use modern web development techniques to collaborate and build the platform through GitHub.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re going to guide the students in terms of what technology we&#8217;d like to see used, what software stack we&#8217;d like to see used,\u201d Freer said. \u201cIn the end, the actual programming will be done by the students.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students will then begin working with Microsoft and Code for Miami to plan out design metrics. The City of Miami will provide students with information on the budget and promote the website to their citizens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf we build the app, and then they don&#8217;t promote it, and then the people in Miami don&#8217;t use it, then it&#8217;s pointless,\u201d Freer said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They will then begin the design phase for six months, where the website\u2019s interface will\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">come to life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is a great opportunity to engage local computer science students in creating something that our residents will truly benefit from,\u201d said <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michael Sarasti, chief innovation officer of the City of Miami<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cIn addition to giving them hands-on experience in app research and development, we\u2019re 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