Civic hacking 101
First things first...
Who am I?
CPS (bureaucrat, digital projects)
Starter League (learned Ruby on Rails)
DivvyBrags (first civic hack)
Start Up Chile (learn lots, fail lots)
Code for America (2015)
What is civic hacking?
Civic
Hacking
Here are 10 ways
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you can help out by civic hacking
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and civic hacking can help you
1 Start a civic side project
(Personal example: DivvyBrags...)
Only qualification is that you care
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Stirring up a wee bit of civic trouble can be good
2 Work at a civic tech company
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A few in Chicago: Civis Analytics, 270 Strategies, DataMade, Purple Binder, Public Good Software, many more
Check out this (incomplete) Chicago list:
www.smartchicagocollaborative.org/an-incomplete-list-of-chicago-civic-technology-groups/
3 Go to #opengov hack night
Tuesdays, 6:00pm, 1871
4 Explore Chi data portals:
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www.data.cityofchicago.org
www.opengovhacknight.org/resources.html
5 Open up the Civic Issue Finder
www.codeforamerica.org/geeks/civicissues
Side benefits of helping out:
Meet smart people and mentors
Expand your tech network
Build that Github profile
6 Respectfully redesign government
7 Join your CfA Brigade:
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www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/
8 Start a civic tech company
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...for all the future entrepreneurs in the house: Gov-focused incubators (ex. CfA Accelerator), YC "RFS"
9 Join a tech company and make it civic
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Ridesharing to the polls? Facebook organ donation? There's a civic angle to everything.
10 Government needs web developers too...
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Work for @ChicagoCTO! (Or at least follow her)
Find me on Twitter:
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@alexsoble
Talk to me about things
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CfA Code education Bikeshare Chicago/Chile/SF Good books etc...
Thanks! Now get out there and hack your city!