Civic Hacking: a review

Theft-based civic hacking: a review Stefan Magdalinski Saturday 16th January 2010 1

Civic Hacking: Fixing democracy by using democracy’s own existing, broken, rules. 2

1998: UpMyStreet.com 3

Tribute! 4

2000: FaxYourMP.com 5

2005: WriteToThem.com 6

2005: WriteToThem.com League Tables 7

2004: TheyWorkForYou.com 8

2004: The Official Hansard 9

A debate, done properly 10

Slice and Dice and All Things Nice 11

2008 WhatDoTheyKnow.com – FOIA Filer & Archiver 12

2005 FarmSubsidy.org 13

Farmsubsidy.org Results By 2010 full transparency on all end recipients of EU farm, fisheries & infrastructure subsidies 14

Farmsubsidy.org Results By 2010 full transparency on all end recipients of EU farm, fisheries & infrastructure subsidies ~ $100 billion/year 14

Recipe for Theft-Based Activism: 1. Identify broken civic institution 2. Liberate data from said institution 3. Build civic tools that are too useful to turn off 4. Leave with citizens for x years 5. Watch said institution reform 6. Doesn't necessarily need lots of users/money 15

Results Licensing: Ask forgiveness, not permission? 16

Results Licensing: Ask forgiveness, not permission? No! the correct response is ‘Go F**k Yourself!’ - this data is our right. 16

Question: What online democratic tools are there in RSA, and what do you need? 17

Thank You stefan@whitelabel.org http://www.twitter.com/smagdali 18

Civic Hacking: a review

by Stefan Magdalinski on Jan 26, 2010

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