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Civic Hacking 101

 

Many origins

  • E-Democracy
  • Gov 2.0
  • Open Source Govtech

Fueled by

  • Open Data
  • Open Gov
  • Open Source

People/Stakeholders involved

  • People inside of governments
  • People outside of governments
  • YOU!!!

Foundations of a Civic Application

  • Open Data or User Driven Data
  • Website or Mapping Interface
  • Text Messages or Mobile Interface
  • Social (in some aspect)
  • May use an API (Application Programming Interface)

Useful skills/roles for civic hacking

  • The Investigator
  • The Communicator
  • The Researcher/Data Gatherer
  • The Designer
  • The Software Developer
  • The Project Manager

Useful Tools

  • GitHub
  • OpenRefine
  • R
  • Trello
  • Forum
  • Slack

Questions?