Civic hacking involves creatively using technology and open data to address civic challenges and improve community life. It engages various individuals, including programmers and civic organizers, to develop applications, such as the nearby explorer app for the visually impaired, which enhances navigation using GPS technology. Events in Louisville have focused on utilizing open data and tools to support this mission, demonstrating collaboration towards practical solutions for accessibility.

1. Civic Hacking
in help for the visually impaireds
open data & tools
Maurizio Napolitano
<napo@fbk.eu>

2. Civic Hacking
● A creative, often technological approach to solving
civic problems. [Source]
● Citizens developing their own applications which give
people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and
community aspects of their lives.[Source]
● Collaborating with others to create, build, and invent
open source solutions using publicly-released data,
code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to
our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our
country. [Source]
https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/

3. ● A creative, often technological approach to solving
civic problems.
● Citizens developing their own applications which
give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic
and community aspects of their lives.
● Collaborating with others to create, build, and
invent open source solutions using
publicly-released data, code, and technology to
solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our
cities, our states, and our country.
https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/
Civic Hacking

4. Who are civic hackers?
Civic hackers can be
programmers, designers,
data scientists, good
communicators, civic
organizers, entrepreneurs,
government employees and
anyone willing to get his or
her hands dirty solving
problems.
https://opengovdata.io/2014/civic-hacking/
pictures from The Noun Project made by Oksana Latysheva and Luis Prado

5. Helping the Visually Impaired Navigate
Louisville Using Open Data
The CDA hosted two CodeAcross 2015 events in Louisville on
February 21 and March 21. Dedicated volunteers converged on the
Urban Design Studio and the American Printing House for the Blind
for two days of OpenStreetMap learning and editing, in support of
the American Printing House for the Blind’s ‘Nearby Explorer’ app.
Nearby Explorer is an advanced GPS solution recently released for
Android smartphones by the American Printing House for the blind.
The app gives the visually impaired and the blind audible cues
about their immediate surroundings, and directions to places they
would like to go. [...]
http://www.civicdataalliance.org/projects/hackathons/gis-open-data-american-printing-house-open-street-map/

6. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aph.avigenie

7. OpenStreetMap

8. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_for_the_blind

9. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tactile_paving

10. Mappe tattili
Modelli tattili

11. https://touch-mapper.org/en/

13. https://hapticke.mapy.cz/

14. http://www.blindmaps.org/

16. Thanks
Readings
https://www.civichacking.guide/
https://opengovdata.io/2014/civic-hacking/
https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/
http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2011/10/03/civic-hacking-i-ladri-della-rete-a-fin-di-bene/161705/
For contacts
Twitter: @napo
Blog: http://de.straba.us
Slide:http://slideshare.net/napo
Email: napo@fbk.eu