Cleaning up an entry point for Open Sourcing EduTech

Lessons learnt in “community building” while finding ways to make collaboration infrastructure accessible

Then colleagues in Open Government Products (OGP) and various education officers have seen various attempts to identify, grow and keep people interested in solving thorny problems in education meaningfully (tech as one but not the exclusive lever).

String.sg (string.beta.gov.sg) will be deprecated given that I have left OGP. Also not fair to have that one staying beta forever given that it is already in the third year — either pull the plug or continue to properly maintain if it hits the baseline metrics. In the coming week, I will likely pull the plug on at least 2 and will write separately about them

Left: rushed work using a Jerkyll template from Github pages; Right: iteration over the weekend with more room to grow

join.string.sg

Created last week (5.24) to make the following call-to-action more prominent:

1. Join discussions
2. Submit problem statements
3. Submit solutions