5. What is the fuel of civic hacking?
• A problem that needs to be solved with someone willing to lead the charge.
• Wanting to do some Civic Good
• A place to where everyone can Learn/Play
• Open Data
• Open Source
• Open tools for Collaboration and Sharing
Regular Meeting time and place
Open to everyone
Freedom to learn and exchange ideas.
Project Leads - the person with the passion to push
the solution
Civic good comes in more than just code:
Designers
Usability
Writers
Thinkers - how to improve existing processes to meet the intent of ordances
Everyone - from people just learning to experts
How many of you have an open data policy in your city?
Decrease FOIA requests: Freedom of Information Act requests
People running for City Council we asked about Civic Tech
Brigade and non Brigade project. Letting people know what can be done!
Talk about hosting the hackathon in June, getting 8-10 projects that are being developed for launch in November
Projects are at all stages
Working with UMKC School of Law
Need to talk up clause bank - for Data Sharing Agreements