Episode 6 – Civic Hacking / Curating Communities

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English - April 13, 2016 01:22 - 40 minutes - 46.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Previous Episode: Episode 5 – Agile in Real Life / The history of Waterfall and Lean Manufacturing

Next Episode: Episode 7 – Book Publishing / Challenging Yourself to Learn

This episode our guest Seth Etter explains what civic hacking is and how to get involved in your local area to help better your community. Speaking of community, how about your local dev community? We talk about curating dev communities and some of the challenges and benefits that come along with it.

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Show Notes

Topics:

Civic Hacking (8:18)
Open Data (16:21)
Curating Communities (26:23)

Learn more about civic hacking:

As for an article to clearly define “civic hacking”, this one nails it https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/
For checking out what data is available from the national level there is https://www.data.gov/
Recently the White House released this “opportunity” initiative to call for community leaders to leverage open data for public good, which is very relevant to civic hacking https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/03/07/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-opportunity-project-utilizing-open-data
For civic hacking, checking Code For America in general would be good (codeforamerica.org). Also looking at any of their brigades. Smart Chicago is a good organization to check out too http://www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/
http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/Code-for-Kansas-City/
“Civic Innovation is a new idea, technology or methodology that challenges and improves upon existing processes and systems, thereby improving the lives of citizens or the function of the society that they live within.” — Alex Howard

Developer Picks:

Sherlock – (Landon)
Billy subscription management app – (Jacob)
Litmus – (Andrew)
National Day of Civic Hacking – (Seth)

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