Forming The Future

Jascha Franklin-Hodge is the former Chief Information Officer for the City of Boston. Jascha was appointed by Mayor Martin Walsh to serve in the cabinet and to lead the Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT). He created the City’s first Digital Team and their projects included the award-winning Boston.gov web site and BOS:311 mobile app. Prior to working for Boston, Jascha founded Blue State Digital where he oversaw the development of their online fundraising, email, and CRM platform that is used by a variety of not-for-profit and political clients — most notably the Obama campaigns in 2008 and 2012.