Today is Code for America's 'National Day of Civic Hacking' (govtech.com) 12
"The biggest day of the year for civic technologists, the National Day of Civic Hacking, is Saturday, Sept. 21, and, as such, affiliated groups across the country are preparing their events," reports Government Technology:
The National Day of Civic Hacking, simply put, is a day in which civic technologists and others interested in serving their communities come together in the service of tech projects aimed at doing just that. This is the seventh year for the event, which is organized in large part by the national nonpartisan and nonprofit civic tech group Code for America (CfA). This year, CfA has once again convened its many member brigades in the service of the National Day of Civic Hacking...
To help facilitate projects, CfA&'s brigade network has identified three potential starting points for participants. The first is mapping out the record clearance project from the user's perspective. With many jurisdictions doing things like decriminalizing marijuana, there have become new opportunities for record clearance. The idea here is to be centered on the user's experience seeking conviction relief from government agencies.
Next, the brigade network suggests developing a services usability scorecard for evaluating the accessibility of the expungement process and policies in states. Finally, they also recommend creating a user-friendly know your rights website, complete with digital resources for those who have criminal convictions on their records.
If you're in the U.S. this web page offers to find a local event near you. (I attended my local event in 2013.) GeekWire notes this year one event will even be held at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond.
Related news and updates on social media will be using the hashtag #HackForChange
To help facilitate projects, CfA&'s brigade network has identified three potential starting points for participants. The first is mapping out the record clearance project from the user's perspective. With many jurisdictions doing things like decriminalizing marijuana, there have become new opportunities for record clearance. The idea here is to be centered on the user's experience seeking conviction relief from government agencies.
Next, the brigade network suggests developing a services usability scorecard for evaluating the accessibility of the expungement process and policies in states. Finally, they also recommend creating a user-friendly know your rights website, complete with digital resources for those who have criminal convictions on their records.
If you're in the U.S. this web page offers to find a local event near you. (I attended my local event in 2013.) GeekWire notes this year one event will even be held at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond.
Related news and updates on social media will be using the hashtag #HackForChange
Never heard of it (Score:3)
Too bad this story didn't come in a timely fashion, or i might have had time to make plans to participate.
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Too bad this story didn't come in a timely fashion, or i might have had time to make plans to participate.
This is /. Clearly you do not understand their mission - late or duplicate but rarely timely.
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I'm not exactly new here.
My point is, there's no sense in discussing this now.
I'm not surprised, just pointing it out.
HTH, HAND
National Day of Civic Hacking (Score:2)
I'm glad I don't own a Honda Civic right now.
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To be honest, I'm out of my Element here.
So... (Score:2)
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You have problems, man. Normally we have illegal computer access labeled "hacking" and someone objects to that usage, and we get into discussions of hacking, cracking, and other terms of art. This usage seems to be the generally accepted usage (by the population, not all people).
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Brigades of CIA hackers deployed! (Score:2)
Ah. Scan fail. Never mind.