#civichacking

[hawaiicalendar]

Hope springs eternal, and civic hacking is always in style. Leading up to the fifth Hawaii Annual Code Challenge (HACC), there will be a series of virtual workshops to sharpen your skills, beginning with Google and Data Visualization tools! #HACC2020 #civichacking #hackathon #hawaii #hawaiitech #hawaiitechevents https://www.instagram.com/p/B-bJd4rD_h2/?igshid=1q11yykdm9qkn

[pendolaredigitale]

June 17th - Torino

Giving a talk at RIF Lab - Turin chapter.

[cyteksecurity]

Let us use our diverse talents and perspectives to create better tech for good solutions. Happy Civic Hacking Day! . . . #Cytek #CivicHackingDay #CivicHackingDay2021 #CivicHacking

[digitaldronecollective]

Great stories have relatable characters - real humans, real challenges.

Luke Simcoe on storytelling, Communications Lead for Code For Canada

[FK]

[newmoneycreations]

💡Innovation happens at the end of your comfort zone. .@franklinjrpena Pursuing entrepreneurship involves inherent risk.‼️Bur breaking your own mold can only make you stronger 💪 and more confident to reach higher levels in your professional and personal life. . 🌈 In order to be more creative, you must try new things, see things in a new way, or put pieces together in a new manner. When was the last time you stepped out of your comfort zone and took on a new challenge? . . . . #imagination #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #socialimpact #socialinnovation #socialenterprise #motivation #motivationalquotes #civichacking #hackathon #technology #siliconbeach #siliconvalley #philanthropy #quotes #alberteinstein #quotestoliveby #entrepreneurquotes #dailymotivation #dailyquotes #growthhacking #growthmindset #businessminded #businessmindset #buildyourempire #produceathon — view on Instagram http://ift.tt/2FLOwt5

[codeforamerica]

Civic Hacking Icons from Iconathon. More at The Noun Project.

[aschrock-blog]

I worry that scholars — especially scholars who see themselves as radicals or liberals — are content to study and support only the increasingly radical, underground oppositional forms that free software takes—and to avoid a careful cultural analysis of the domesticated forms that open source is taking. Contemporary critiques of immaterial capitalism or communicative capitalism or whatever the latest branding is, fail miserably at the task Marx once set himself: to describe the workings of capitalism in such excruciating detail that the critique could not help but emerge from that description.

Chris Kelty, There is no Free Software (2013) 

[stevespiker]

How we're Coding for America in Oakland!

[fixthefuture]

Freespace is an experiment in civic hacking, inspired in no small part by Burning Man. But it’s attracting the attention of Fortune 500 companies eager to find ways to bring more creativity and innovation into their work spaces and companies.

Read more here: http://www.fastcoexist.com/1682343/this-is-what-happens-when-you-give-a-creative-community-an-empty-14000-square-foot-building#2

[publicsq]

Pivotal:

The value of opening public data is a difficult thing to quantify. An increasing number of cities, states, and federal organizations are building data portals. But the usefulness and quality of the data released in past years has been notoriously inconsistent. In the past year, cities such as Chicago, countries like the United Kingdom, and organizations including Code for America have begun to set a gold standard for releases of open civic data. This has prompted a slew of projects to increase government transparency and citizen engagement, and an increasingly vibrant startup culture for civic apps.

Chicago has been perhaps the most bullish city in the United States about embracing open data initiatives (forgive the pun.) Under the supervision of CTO John Tolva, Chicago’s open data portal is expansive in its scope — including over 450 datasets — and committed to open standards. The result has been a vibrant community of citizen hackers, exemplified by the Open City Apps organization, as well as a number of startups built upon this wealth of civic data emerging from accelerators such as 1871 and the Smart Chicago Collaborative.

While Chicago’s open data portal is a standard-bearer, it’s far from the only exemplar. Other standouts include New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Austin, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz. These efforts have spawned a number of civic startups that are finding business value in the release of public data, such as Austin’s Aunt Bertha, which simplifies the search and application process for social services, and recent Knight News Challenge recipient Open Counter, which simplifies the process of registering and creating new businesses within a city.

The path to opening civic data — and reaping value from it — remains unclear. Cities, states, and federal institutions continue to be mired in legacy systems, with potentially high-value datasets buried in proprietary databases or PDF files. Whether sustainable startups can be built upon civic data alone remains an open question. But thanks to the efforts of a number of forward-looking public CTO’s, and civic-minded entrepreneurs and innovators, cities are becoming more transparent, interactive, and hackable.

[daveizm]

Attendee at Hack for Food describing why civic hacking is important.  Asheville, NC.

[cfakc-blog]

Kicking off a National Day of Civic Hacking by talking about the futures of civic technology with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County & Kansas City, Kansas. Where are we at with tech today? Where are we headed in the future?

[bluechasmco]

ATX Hack for Change

By Robert

This June, BlueChasm went to ATX Hack for Change Hackathon as a sponsor and Project Champion. 

As a sponsor, we got to support this great cause which is a part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. This event is about getting great minds together and building something for the civil good. It ranges from mobile apps to websites and even hardware hacks that are meant to help the public.

This hackathon is different than others because unlike regular hackathons, there isn’t a “Grand Prize” to be awarded to the best idea at the end of the event. This hackathon is about building something to better our city and citizens of Austin. Project Champions come with an idea and present it to the crowd of talented programmers and designers at the beginning of the event. Shortly after, teams form and people join whichever project they like the most/are inspired by and they lend their skills to make the project come to life.

At ATX Hack for Change, BlueChasm was selected as a Project Champion. We came up with the idea of a smart sprinkler system that would not only check for the weather conditions but it would also take into consideration the city’s watering restrictions which are dictated by the Water Conservation Department.

With this project we hoped to help both the city and the citizens to save money and conserve water for commercial properties, retail properties, multifamily housing, farmers, greenhouses and single family residential which are required to irrigate often. They would see a big difference in their water consumption which would help them save money and protect the environment.

We had an amazing team of Engineering students and IT professionals that we teamed with. The team had fun building the software and developing on the hardware.

Most of the Project Champions came with their projects which they wanted to develop into full blown services or products. Our project was more of a way to spread the idea of smart watering devices and helping cities with their water conservation. Mainly by developing an API that would make it easier for developers to build water-smart devices.

In the end, the entire team had fun and some even decided to continue working on hardware related hacks. We had an amazing weekend at St.Edwards University and it was inspiring to see so many developers and designers work for a weekend in the spirit of civil good.  We are definitely planning to attend next year’s ATX Hack for Change event!

[kevincurry]

[codeforamerica]

[stevespiker]

Civic hacking is...

“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.

A definition I dig. from Mark Headd.