Civic Hacking Info

"Why Good Hackers Make Good Citizens"



"The Collaborative State" by Mark Headd, November 2014
http://civic.io/2014/11/06/the-collaborative-state/
"“Civic Hacking” is the awareness of a condition that is suboptimal in a neighborhood, community or place and the perception of one’s own ability to effect change on that condition. The apps are incidental."

"Civic Hacking" by Joshua Tauberer, August 2014
Excerpt from Joshua's post: "Civic hacking is a creative and often technological approach to solving civic problems. These civic problems run the gamut from voter registration and public education to helping consumers buy homes and choose financial advisers. Often civic hacking involves the use of government data to make governments more accountable, but the goals of civic hacking are as diverse as those who might call themselves hackers. Civic hackers can be programmers, designers, data scientists, good communicators, civic organizers, entrepreneurs, government employees and anyone willing to get his or her hands dirty solving problems. Some civic hackers are employed by nonprofits, such as Code for America. Some work for innovative for-profit companies, such as the geospatial software provider Azavea in Philadelphia. Others are civic hackers only by night..."

National Day of Civic Hacking
http://hackforchange.org/
National Day of Civic Hacking will bring together urbanists, civic hackers, government staff, developers, designers, community organizers and anyone with the passion to make their city better. They will collaboratively build new solutions using publicly-released data, technology, and design processes to improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Anyone can participate; you don’t have to be an expert in technology, you just have to care about your neighborhood and community.

White House OSTP announcement about National Day of Civic Hacking 2015
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/05/12/save-date-national-day-civic-hacking-coming-june-6
I’m excited to let you know about the third annual National Day of Civic Hacking, coming June 6, 2015, to a city near you!  It’s a day when we’ll collaboratively build new solutions using publicly-released data, technology, and design processes to improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Anyone can participate…you don’t have to be an expert in technology; you just have to care about your neighborhood and community. Lots of communities have existing frameworks for civic hacking events: events that provide opportunities for anyone who’s interested to collaborate to create services, apps, and websites that address social and civic issues that run the gamut from the environment to public accessibility to transit and housing. The National Day of Civic Hacking is a chance to connect and lift up these efforts to acknowledge the incredible impact that community collaboration, engagement, and volunteerism can have in our towns and cities...It brings together thousands of technologists, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, makers, organizers, scientists, and other citizens to improve their communities and the governments that represent them.

White House announcement about National Day of Civic Hacking 2014
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/04/17/celebrating-second-annual-national-day-civic-hacking
The National Day of Civic Hacking is an opportunity for software developers, technologists, and entrepreneurs to collaborate and create innovative solutions—using publicly-released data, code, and technologies—to tackle pressing challenges and improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Last year more than 11,000 innovators from the private-sector, non-profits, and Federal, State and local governments worked together to hack on projects—95 civic hacking events took place in 83 cities including Austin, Baltimore, Denver, Louisville, New Orleans, San Francisco, and even here at the White House.

Code for America
http://www.codeforamerica.org/
Code for America believes government can work for the people, by the people in the 21st century. They build open source technology and organize a network of people dedicated to making government services simple, effective, and easy to use.

DHMN Civic Hackathon/City of Appleton 2015
June 6, 2015  ---  Registration at 8:30 AM, Hackathon Kickoff at 9:00 AM.
General Event Info: "DHMN Civic Hackathon/Appleton 2015: Register TODAY!!"
Hackathon Agenda: "DHMN Civic Hackathon/Appleton 2015: Agenda."
Location: The DHMN Civic Hackathon/Appleton 2015 was held in the Esch Hurvis Room of the Warch Campus Center at Lawrence University, 711 E. Boldt Way, Appleton, WI, 54911.


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