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    {"title" :"Civic Hacking: Pathways for Participation","summary" : "The National Day of Civic Hacking is actually a weekend. An awe-inspiring two days of collaborative work where coders, designers, writers, innovative thinkers,","date" : "2014-05-02T10:00:00-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"tammi-marcoullier" : "Tammi Marcoullier"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/05/2014-05-02-five-ways-to-hack-government-data-and-you-wont-believe-what-happens.md","slug" : "five-ways-to-hack-government-data-and-you-wont-believe-what-happens","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/05/02/five-ways-to-hack-government-data-and-you-wont-believe-what-happens/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/05/600-x-212-National-Day-of-Civic-Hacking-2014-facebook-banner-logo.jpg\"\n    alt=\"A Facebook banner that reads: National Day of Civic Hacking: To improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Join us May 31st - June 1st, 2014\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ca href=\"http://www.hackforchange.org/\"\u003eNational Day of Civic Hacking\u003c/a\u003e is actually a weekend. An awe-inspiring two days of collaborative work where coders, designers, writers, innovative thinkers, and data geeks get together to solve problems and build things for their communities.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Challenge.gov community, this is a fantastic opportunity to get live, hands-on experience talking with and working next to people in a real-time hacking environment.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you’re thinking about running a competition around data sets or have an idea you want to float to developers, you can do it here first and see what feedback and traction you get, before committing to a full-fledged prize competition.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, of course, we’re getting in on this too. Thanks to the organizers at \u003ca href=\"http://www.hackforchange.org/\" title=\"Hack for Change\"\u003eHackforChange.org\u003c/a\u003e, there’s an easy to peruse list of ways you and your agency can get involved.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExpress Yourself.\u003c/strong\u003e Talk, write or tweet about open data and civic hacking.\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHave your CTO, CIO or collaboration lead write about the value of civic hacking and supporting the event.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWrite a blog for \u003ca href=\"http://www.hackforchange.org/\"\u003eHackforChange.org\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoin the hashtagged discussion \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hackforchange\u0026amp;src=typd\u0026amp;f=realtime\"\u003e#hackforchange\u003c/a\u003e on Twitter.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen \u0026amp; Learn\u003c/strong\u003e. Listen to the community to get a feel for the questions they are asking and what they are talking about.\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoin the organizers’ \u003ca href=\"https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ndoch-organizers\"\u003eGoogle discussion group\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFollow the hashtagged discussion \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23hackforchange\u0026amp;src=typd\u0026amp;f=realtime\"\u003e#hackforchange\u003c/a\u003e on Twitter.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAttend \u0026amp; Represent.\u003c/strong\u003e Go to an event and experience it for yourself! We also have several people who are pioneering this work in the federal space who would be happy to reflect with you about how this could be applied to your agency.\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWe anticipate four DC-area events: An Arlington event for the National Science Foundation, an innovation event around the 2020 Census, a local hackathon in DC and Transparency Camp. If you want to join any of these events to observe or participate, contact \u003ca href=\"mailto:hello@hackforchange.org\"\u003ehello [at] HackforChange.org\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMany local leads across the country have asked for federal support. We’d love to have representatives from your agency visit events anywhere possible.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGive a Little.\u003c/strong\u003e Offer a dataset, challenge or code to use at the event. What you get in return could be priceless.\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.hackforchange.org/submit-challenges-and-datasets/\"\u003eData\u003c/a\u003e: The organizers are always looking for interesting open data sets to build great applications around.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.hackforchange.org/submit-challenges-and-datasets/\"\u003eChallenges\u003c/a\u003e: Many agencies provide challenges for the community to work on at National Day. This year, we are specifically encouraging inter-agency challenge collaborations where possible.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCode: If your agency has open source software projects that the community can work on/contribute to, organizers would \u003cem\u003elove\u003c/em\u003e to pull them in.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHost an Event.\u003c/strong\u003e A program office can host a themed local event focused on your agency content.\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBoth years, the \u003cstrong\u003eNational Science Foundation\u003c/strong\u003e has held \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/e/northern-virginia-national-day-of-civic-hacking-national-science-foundation-2-day-event-tickets-6577193563\"\u003ean event\u003c/a\u003e at its northern Virginia headquarters focused on its science priorities. The \u003cstrong\u003eCensus Bureau\u003c/strong\u003e will be hosting an event in DC to source innovative ideas for the 2020 Census.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrganizers are happy to connect you to the local civic hacking community if you would like to collaborate for an agency event.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with our colleagues \u003cstrong\u003eJeanne Holm (Evangelist, Data.gov) and Brian Forde (Senior Advisor to U.S. CTO for Mobile \u0026amp; Data Innovation)\u003c/strong\u003e, we are encouraging and supporting federal agency participation. We’d love to have you bring ideas and content, learn by doing, and get valuable insight on what people are interested in doing with your agency.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStill need more evidence and encouragement? \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/04/17/celebrating-second-annual-national-day-civic-hacking\" title=\"white house blog civic hack day\"\u003eRead Forde’s article\u003c/a\u003e about the event and results from previous years.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComment here, \u003ca href=\"mailto:challenge@gsa.gov\"\u003eemail challenge [at] gsa.gov\u003c/a\u003e, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.data.gov/contact\" title=\"contact data dot gov\"\u003econtact Data.gov\u003c/a\u003e with your ideas or questions. We look forward to seeing you next month!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"what-is-national-day\"\u003eWHAT IS NATIONAL DAY?\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNational Day of Civic Hacking is an international event that will take place May 31 – June 1, 2014, in cities around the world. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs together to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology 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.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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