National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that takes place today and tomorrow, in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country. National Day of Civic Hacking will provide citizens an opportunity to do what is most quintessentially American: roll up our sleeves, get involved and work together to improve our society.
Some FAQs:Bringing it home, the purpose of this blog is to promote transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and citizens. On a personal level, I see it happening between the municipality (with some exceptions) and citizens, but the school district has dug its heels in deeper to discourage transparency, participation and collaboration. The school board directors, on the whole, are secretive, ignore residents' emails, dismiss detailed budget presentations given by residents, reject professional input (CAC), roll their eyes at opposing viewpoints, and on and on.
Q. What is National Day of Civic Hacking?
A. National Day of Civic Hacking is an event during which citizens from around the country will work together with local, state and federal governments as well as private sector organizations with the common goal of improving their community.
Q. When and where will it take place?
A. National Day of Civic Hacking will take place in cities across America on the weekend of June 1-2, 2013.
Q. Who is leading the National Day of Civic Hacking?
A. National Day of Civic Hacking is a national initiative to promote transparency, participation and collaboration between governments and citizens. It’s a collaboration between citizens, organizations, companies and government. Events will take place in cities around the nation.
5 comments:
The only "hacking" the school board and administration will do is in connection with the choke reaction they experience when confronted with their trickery, chicanery and deceit exposed on this blog, which they do read !
It is ironic that our tax bills came in the mail today.
Elaine
Elaine you talk about greater cooperation between the municipality and residents, sorry I don't see it.
First off, it passed a storm water "fee" that if they had to do it, it would have been more beneficial to taxpayers to call it a tax. They called it a fee,for their own benefit come election time.
Did anyone follow the Lebomag.com poll on doggie parks? Not a whole lot of interst in the community that the commissioners should be focusing so much time an efforts on making it happen.
May be one of the commissioners would care to show the poll results and comment on why their doggedly pursuing a park that only about 30 people (poll is no longer available, so my count may be off) say they'll even use.
Then we have the SAB. Know what their big agenda is... Yep turf, surprise, surprise.
Has Mt. Lebanon admitted yet they they have to abide by Scott Twp. zoning regulations for Twin Hills Park, particularly regarding use by dogs ? That they are not as omnipotent as they brazenly present themselves to be ?
Mt. Lebanon has no time to admit anything because they'reto occupied dealing with the carnage and injuries caused by those stampeding herds of killer deer.
Just clearing the totalled cars that are delaying traffic on Washington and Bower Hill could take months!
Oh wait, those aren't totaled cars, they're just stopped due to construction.
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