Podcasts about civic hacking

A new report card called ScanGov monitors and evaluates the fundamentals of government websites in all 50 states and the federal government. The report reveals that half of all states received a failing grade, indicating a need for improvement in transparency, domain credibility, accessibility, and crawlability. The creators of ScanGov, Elias and Luke Fretwell, emphasize that their goal is not to shame governments but to educate and inspire behavioral change. The project has received positive feedback and has already prompted some agencies to make improvements. However, there is still a need for states to prioritize the technical components of their websites and establish dedicated digital service teams. Keywordsgovernment websites, ScanGov, report card, failing grade, transparency, domain credibility, accessibility, crawlability, civic hacking, behavioral change, digital service teams Takeaways Half of all states received a failing grade in the ScanGov report card, indicating a need for improvement in the fundamentals of government websites. The creators of ScanGov aim to educate and inspire behavioral change rather than shame governments. Positive feedback has been received, and some agencies have already made improvements based on the report card. States need to prioritize the technical components of their websites and establish dedicated digital service teams to ensure better performance. Chapters 00:00 Introduction: The Problem with Government Websites 03:15 ScanGov: Evaluating Basic Web Practices 04:43 Inspiring Change through Civic Hacking 09:30 Positive Feedback and Improvements 14:11 ScanGov Report Card: Revealing Failing Grades   Related Links to items referenced in the episode: ScanGov: Government digital experience monitor A Young Civic Hacker Could Be the Next Generation of Gov Tech Subscribe to TFIC for free on YouTube or the podcast app of your choice — Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audacy and Audible.

A 14-year-old self-taught coder is doing for government what it did not do for itself. His dad helped but he learned how to hack alongside friends at a venerable but sometimes overlooked public institution – the library. Civic hacking is generational. It still carries some of the old school hackathon vibe but people coming of age today expect to be able to get data, use it for their purposes, add some value and give it back for benefit of the wider community. That generational shift offers some interesting possibilities for redefining government digital services – and who makes them so. It could also radically change our understanding of volunteering when outsiders do more than just run fundraisers.  On this episode - the 100th for TFIC - meet Elias Fretwell and his dad, Luke, who together are out to use public data to improve things for people who use government services. You can see and use some of the apps they built online - including their National Survey Marker map and their take on CDC Disease Surveillance.  

Reimagining government. Amanda Renteria, the CEO of Code for America, joined the podcast to talk about using technology to serve communities and use technology for good. She discussed how Code for America wants to encourage a delivery driven government that starts with people it serves. She also shared her career path in public service and example projects completed by Code for America brigades. Host: Javon Davis

It's Batman day today, so hang upside down in a cave and spend a bunch of money. It's also International Day of Peace and National Day of Civic Hacking. ON this day in history, the first female Supreme Court Justice is nominated, the dream team is announced, and Monday Night Football debuts.

First up the National Day of Civic Hacking is coming up on Saturday, September 12, 2020. Code for Hawaiʻi, Code for America, and the Brigade Network for the 2020 are teaming up to present NDoCH, which brings together civic leaders, public servants, designers, coders, and engaged citizens to partner with local government and community groups … Continue reading "Episode 627: PPE Innovation Grant Program + Digital Currency Innovation Lab – Sept 2, 2020"

En este especial converse con 3 de los voluntarios que participaron en el Hackaton de @CodeforVenezuela en San Francisco, del 14 al 16 de Febrero.  En este Hackaton 100+ participantes trabajaron para crear soluciones de visualización de data para una ONG Venezolana llamada Medicos por la Salud.  En esta ocasión converse con: Jose Montes de Oca: Cofundador y CTO de Newslit, Xoogler (Fue el 1er ingeniero que Google contrato para el Google App Engine), Programador estrella y Guaro Rajao. Fabiola Rosato: Ingeniera de Software y especialista en Robotica. Programadora en 2K (Los creadores de Bioshock). Cuando no esta programando, esta tocando el Ukulele. Luis Noguera: Analista de Negocios en Vivino, Alumni del Hult International Business School. Cuando no esta analizando modelos en R publica su música en Spotify.  Pueden apoyar el podcast en Patreon.com/ConexionesPodcast donde tenemos Q&As, Tutoriales de carrera y nuestra comunidad de Slack  Aprende mas sobre Code for Venezuela en y apoyalos via OpenCollective

En este especial converse con 3 de los voluntarios que participaron en el Hackaton de @CodeforVenezuela en San Francisco, del 14 al 16 de Febrero.  En este Hackaton 100+ participantes trabajaron para crear soluciones de visualización de data para una ONG Venezolana llamada Medicos por la Salud.  En esta ocasión converse con: Jose Montes de Oca: Cofundador y CTO de Newslit, Xoogler (Fue el 1er ingeniero que Google contrato para el Google App Engine), Programador estrella y Guaro Rajao. Fabiola Rosato: Ingeniera de Software y especialista en Robotica. Programadora en 2K (Los creadores de Bioshock). Cuando no esta programando, esta tocando el Ukulele. Luis Noguera: Analista de Negocios en Vivino, Alumni del Hult International Business School. Cuando no esta analizando modelos en R publica su música en Spotify.  Pueden apoyar el podcast en Patreon.com/ConexionesPodcast donde tenemos Q&As, Tutoriales de carrera y nuestra comunidad de Slack  Aprende mas sobre Code for Venezuela en y apoyalos via OpenCollective

En este especial converse con 3 de los voluntarios que participaron en el Hackaton de @CodeforVenezuela en San Francisco, del 14 al 16 de Febrero.  En este Hackaton 100+ participantes trabajaron para crear soluciones de visualización de data para una ONG Venezolana llamada Medicos por la Salud.  En esta ocasión converse con: Jose Montes de Oca: Cofundador y CTO de Newslit, Xoogler (Fue el 1er ingeniero que Google contrato para el Google App Engine), Programador estrella y Guaro Rajao. Fabiola Rosato: Ingeniera de Software y especialista en Robotica. Programadora en 2K (Los creadores de Bioshock). Cuando no esta programando, esta tocando el Ukulele. Luis Noguera: Analista de Negocios en Vivino, Alumni del Hult International Business School. Cuando no esta analizando modelos en R publica su música en Spotify.  Pueden apoyar el podcast en Patreon.com/ConexionesPodcast donde tenemos Q&As, Tutoriales de carrera y nuestra comunidad de Slack  Aprende mas sobre Code for Venezuela en y apoyalos via OpenCollective

En este especial converse con 3 de los voluntarios que participaron en el Hackaton de @CodeforVenezuela en San Francisco, del 14 al 16 de Febrero.  En este Hackaton 100+ participantes trabajaron para crear soluciones de visualización de data para una ONG Venezolana llamada Medicos por la Salud.  En esta ocasión converse con: Jose Montes de Oca: Cofundador y CTO de Newslit, Xoogler (Fue el 1er ingeniero que Google contrato para el Google App Engine), Programador estrella y Guaro Rajao. Fabiola Rosato: Ingeniera de Software y especialista en Robotica. Programadora en 2K (Los creadores de Bioshock). Cuando no esta programando, esta tocando el Ukulele. Luis Noguera: Analista de Negocios en Vivino, Alumni del Hult International Business School. Cuando no esta analizando modelos en R publica su música en Spotify.  Pueden apoyar el podcast en Patreon.com/ConexionesPodcast donde tenemos Q&As, Tutoriales de carrera y nuestra comunidad de Slack  Aprende mas sobre Code for Venezuela en y apoyalos via OpenCollective

It’s always great to be able to put our skills to good use. In this episode, we are joined by Sarah Yu to talk with us about civic hacking. Guests: Sarah Yu Panelists: Ryan Burgess - @burgessdryan Augustus Yuan - @augburto Jem Young - @JemYoung Mars Jullian - @marsjosephine Stacy London - @stacylondoner Picks: Sarah Yu - Code for America Sarah Yu - Pat McGrath labs Ryan Burgess - You season 2 Ryan Burgess - Dirty John Augustus Yuan - Devocion Coffee - Williamsburg, Brooklyn Augustus Yuan - data.gov Jem Young - Valley Silicon: Hidrate Spark Jem Young - Messiah Season 1 Mars Jullian - Theragun Stacy London - Code for America Stacy London - Wild by Tourist Stacy London - Radical by Amtrac & Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

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We are joined by [Gwendolyn Washington](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwendolyn-mcdowell-washington-906b9744/), Director of Pro Bono at Rising for Justice, [Kelli Shewmaker](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelshew/), Community Outreach Lead with Code for DC, and [Charles Landau](https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesdlandau/), volunteer on the Rising for Justice Code for DC project. We'll talk about this partnership, the National Day of Civic Hacking, National Expungement Week, as well as some of what goes into building software like this. ### Resources and Shoutouts: - [Code for DC](https://codefordc.org/) - [Rising for Justice](https://risingforjustice.org/) ##### Music Credit: [Tumbleweeds by Monkey Warhol](http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Monkey_Warhol/Lonely_Hearts_Challenge/Monkey_Warhol_-_Tumbleweeds)

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Scott Phillips is the founder of Civic Ninjas, and co-founder/CEO of Isocentric Networks. Scott is the founder/organizer of multiple events connecting the Tulsa startup ecosystem including Ignite Tulsa, Tulsa Startup Weekend and Maker Faire Tulsa. Scott has been recognized in Tulsa People Magazine's 40 under 40, received a Tulsey's Above and Beyond Award for his proponency of entrepreneurship and in 2013 was one of eight people recognized nationally by the White House and President Obama as a Champion of Change in Civic Hacking. On this episode you'll learn: -How a robust maker space can provide an ecosystem advantages into the third wave of internet companies. -How did Tulsa achieve the #1 city for female entrepreneurs to start companies? -How has Tulsa's progressive open data policies benefited the local startup ecosystem?

The team talks with Jeff Hoffer, Carrie Maxwell, and Hannah Howard at JSConf US about tao.js, civic hacking, and RxJS. The post Episode 19: tao.js / Civic Hacking / RxJS (Live at JSConf US) appeared first on TalkScript.FM.

The team talks with Jeff Hoffer, Carrie Maxwell, and Hannah Howard at JSConf US about tao.js, civic hacking, and RxJS. The post Episode 19: tao.js / Civic Hacking / RxJS (Live at JSConf US) appeared first on SitePen.

Code for America recently hosted a National Day of Civic Hacking as a call to action bringing together civic leaders, local governments, and community organizations. Groups across the country got together to work on some of our toughest challenges. ELGL Executive Director, Kirsten Wyatt, was down in San Francisco, California at the Code for America headquarters and talked to three participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking. Alex Gaesser discussed working on bike transportation, Connor English talked about a project dealing with foster care and Matt Castillon lead a group working with building inspections data to deal with affordable housing.

Get Him Out - SWEVENS; Theory - It's The Current; Hate To Say - BOWERS, Brotherhood - Slam Caesar, Gone - Asyst; Geeknotes: 08-11 - National Day of Civic Hacking, Code for America, SF, 08-15 - Solving the Black Maternal Heath Crisis, Ancient Light Studio BK, Brooklyn, 08-15 - Remaking Rent Control, Impact Hub San Francisco; Practice - Moving On To Benitez; Truth & Lies - OUT OF PLUMB

Code City Podcast#006 "Civic Hacking" Haight-Ashbury the Diggers by Morgan Fitzgibbons by Code City

Welcome back to the show! To get you ready for the September 23rd National Day of Civic Hacking, I'm very happy to have Lilian Coral on this week's episode. At the time of this interview in late August, Lilian was... The post Episode #94: Lilian Coral appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! To get you ready for the September 23rd National Day of Civic Hacking, I'm very happy to have Lilian Coral on this week's episode. At the time of this interview in late August, Lilian was... The post Episode #94: Lilian Coral appeared first on PolicyViz.

Episode 53 – Luke Crouch and Carlos Moreno are involved on their own unpaid time developing new tech tools to help all of the people of Tulsa connect to Tulsa city services and government. They are leaders in Code for Tulsa, an affiliate of Code for America, which promotes civic work by web and mobile … Continue reading Civic Hacking, Tulsa-Style →

In 2013, Mike Zuckerman, a self-described culture hacker, attended the White House’s National Day of Civic Hacking. Inspired by what he’d learned there, Mike returned to San Francisco and founded [freespace], an organization that focuses on sustainability and urban tactical development. In the spring of 2016, Mike went to Greece where he spent four months rehabilitating an abandoned clothing factory in the industrial sector of Thessaloniki, turning it into a humane shelter that he and his colleagues named Elpida. Unlike the official migrant camps in Greece, where refugees have little say in the day-to-day operations of the camp, Elpida put its 140 residents in charge, and the results were remarkable. Not only is Elpida much less expensive to run on a per person basis than official camps in Greece, the residents don’t suffer from boredom, restlessness, and disengagement like they do at NGO-run camps. As a pilot model, Elpida offers hope and improved living conditions for refugees in a place where no other NGO was able to provide in this kind of support. Mike has been working with Institute for the Future as an affiliate since 2014 and recently accepted an IFTF fellowship to help uncover and study new paradigms for restoring vulnerable places and space, such as post-disaster sites, informal refugee settlements, and decaying urban neighborhoods.  I spoke to Mike about his work at Elpida in August, 2016, just days after he returned from Greece.

We tackle data visualization in its full technicolor glory! Kenneth, Kevin & Len are joined by Jeff Fletcher from IS Research & Innovation to talk about data visualization. Jeff has been working in the internet business for quite some time, from JINX to Telkom, Antfarm to IS, UUNet to 365 and finally back to R&I at Internet Solutions. We met Jeff a few years ago at Jozi.rb where he gave a D3 talk that blew everyone away. Since then Jeff has studied the art of successful data visualization and shares with us all the intricacies of generating effective graphics to communicate complex ideas. We got a history lesson on the origins of data visualization, starting with cartography and Florence Nightingale! We learn how visualization helped stop a cholera outbreak too! Jeff freely shared his knowledge and resources with us and we hope you can use all this to improve your own visualizations. Follow Jeff online: - https://twitter.com/fletch_jeff - http://limn.co.za Here are some resources mentioned during the show: * D3 at Jozi.rb - http://www.meetup.com/joziruby/events/180219732/ * Hype Cycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle * D3.js - https://d3js.org/ * Tableau - http://www.tableau.com/ * QlikView - http://www.qlik.com/products/qlikview * Highcharts - http://www.highcharts.com/ * Cartography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartography * Nightingales's Graph - http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1712.htm * John Snow's Cholera Map - http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/mar/15/john-snow-cholera-map * Edward Tufte - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ * Ben Fry - http://benfry.com/ * Mike Bostock - https://bost.ocks.org/mike/ * Protoviz (predecessor to D3) - http://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ * Three.js - http://threejs.org/ * C3.js - http://c3js.org/ * Stephen Few - https://www.perceptualedge.com/ * Stephen Few's Show Me The Numbers - http://bit.ly/1N7e3zq * WTF Visualizations - http://viz.wtf/ * Data-Ink Ratio - http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Data-Ink_Ratio * iPhone Pie Chart trick - http://www.wired.com/2008/02/macworlds-iphon/ * ColorBrewer 2.0 by Cynthia Brewer - http://colorbrewer2.org/ * ColorBrewer with D3 - https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/5577023 * Gestalt Principle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology * RStudio - https://www.rstudio.com/ * Wazimap - http://wazimap.co.za/ * Data Visualization and Communication with Tableau - https://www.coursera.org/learn/analytics-tableau * CS171 Visualization (Harvard) - http://www.cs171.org/2016/index.html * Dana Wong - http://donawong.com/ * Dana Wong's Wall Street Guide to Information Graphics - http://bit.ly/1oVndUa * Information is Beautiful - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ * Dear Data - http://www.dear-data.com/all * Visualize This - http://book.flowingdata.com/ And finally our picks Kevin: - Episode 26 - Open Data and Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young - http://bit.ly/1T2km6w Kenneth: * Information is Beautiful - http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ * Minard's visualization of Napoleon's March - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Joseph_Minard * Among the Oscar Contenders, a Host of Connections - http://nyti.ms/1N7dVzP Len: - Johannesburg Clojure Meetup - http://www.meetup.com/Johannesburg-Clojure-Meetup/events/230015106/ Jeff: - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi - OECD Better Life Index - http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/ - Real time global wind map - http://earth.nullschool.net/ Thanks for listening! Stay in touch: * Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/ * Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping * Subscribe and rate in iTunes - https://itunes.apple.com/za/podcast/zadevchat-podcast/id1057372777

In this episode we explore the local world of open data and civic hacking. Kenneth, Kevin and Len are joined by Jason Norwood-Young (@j_norwood_young) from Code4SA (@Code4SA). Jason was a tech journalist in a previous life and "converted to the dark side" to become a developer. He's currently working with Code4SA on various open data and civic hacking initiatives and took us for a whirlwind tour of the space. We touch on a range of topics, from acquiring data from government and civil society, to the tools used to clean and interview the data, to publishing the data and building impacting projects that better the lives of people on the ground. We wrap up with some ways curious folks can get involved in the civic hacking movement, chatting local and global efforts to disseminate information and empower people. Follow Jason (https://twitter.com/j_norwood_young) and Code4SA (https://twitter.com/Code4SA) on Twitter. Code4SA has an exhaustive list of projects on GitHub (https://github.com/Code4SA), and can be found online at http://code4sa.org This show was packed with a lot of resources, all listed below: * What is open data? - http://opendatahandbook.org/guide/en/what-is-open-data/ * Section 32: Access to information - http://www.acts.co.za/constitution-of-the-republic-of-south-africa-act-1996/index.html?32_access_to_information.php Non-exhaustive list of sources: * STATS SA Data - http://www.statssa.gov.za/?page_id=1417 * IEC Elections API - https://api.elections.org.za * Code4SA data repository - https://data.code4sa.org * City of Cape Town Open Data Portal - https://web1.capetown.gov.za/web1/OpenDataPortal/ * Municipal Demarcation Board - http://www.demarcation.org.za/index.php/downloads/boundary-data * Code4SA Maps API - http://maps.code4sa.org * Parliamentary Monitoring Group - https://pmg.org.za A few tools of the trade: * IPython - http://ipython.org * Requests - http://docs.python-requests.org * lxml - http://lxml.de/ * Beautiful Soup - http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ * cheerio - https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio * Google Spreadsheets - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets * OpenRefine - http://openrefine.org * Infogr.am - https://infogr.am/ * Mapbox - https://www.mapbox.com * Datawrapper - https://datawrapper.de * DocumentCloud - https://www.documentcloud.org Spotlight on Code4SA: * Data quests - http://scibraai.co.za/join-the-data-quest-to-tell-science-stories-with-sa-data/ * Naked Data Newsletter - http://code4sa.org/newsletter/ * Wazimap - http://wazimap.co.za * Know your 'hood - http://mg.co.za/page/know-your-hood * South Africa's Protest Map - http://protest-map.code4sa.org/ * Hospital ratings - http://hospitals.code4sa.org * Medicine Price Index - http://mpr.code4sa.org * Living on the edge - http://livingwage.code4sa.org * Open By-laws - http://openbylaws.org.za * Black Sash MAVC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdi2kDt4Ieo & http://www.blacksash.org.za/index.php/sash-in-action/stories-from-the-field/1657-mavc-dialogue-with-tshedza-development-project * Data Journalism School - http://code4sa.org/school/ * Code4SA on GitHub - https://github.com/Code4SA Other, non-affiliated, code* groups: * Code for Africa - http://www.codeforafrica.org * Code for America - http://www.codeforamerica.org * HackHackers - http://hackshackers.com * HackHackers Johannesburg - http://www.meetup.com/HacksHackersAfrica/ Our spot in the global arena * Open Data Index - http://index.okfn.org * South Africa's ranking - http://index.okfn.org/place/south-africa/ After we stopped recording we also chatted about Adrian Frith's Dotmap - http://dotmap.adrianfrith.com/ And finally, our picks: Kenneth: * Bounce - http://bounceinc.co.za * The Revenant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoebZZ8K5N0 Len: * WolfenGo - https://github.com/gdm85/wolfengo Jason: * Wolfenstein 1-D Kevin: * Pocket - https://getpocket.com

Thousands of people across the country are taking part in the third annual National Day of Civic Hacking. Groups in more than 100 cities will meet to design apps, websites and services to try to solve problems in their communities. Chicago is hosting four events in 2015, with goals from improving neighborhoods to creating more sustainable fisheries. Christopher Whitaker, the Chicago Brigade Captain for Code for America, and Steven Philpott, a Social Ventures Fellow at the Center for Neighborhood Technology, join us along with Kelly Borden, the Citizen Science Education Lead at Adler Planetarium, to fill us in on this year's event.

The Rogues talk to Heat Seek NYC co-founder William Jeffries.

The Rogues talk to Heat Seek NYC co-founder William Jeffries.

The Rogues talk to Heat Seek NYC co-founder William Jeffries.

IT in the D, Episode 41. Another great episode, that wandered a bit, and yet hit on some great information for things in the area. With Templar Games in studio, a chat about the National Day of Civic Hacking, and various topics like how the Department of Justice is doing some odd things with banks...

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The Promise and Power of Open Data

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Michal Migurski (CTO) and Ezra Spier (Fellow) about civic hacking at Code for America, technical sustainability in government, skill gap for more modern software in government, open city data and more.

Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Michal Migurski (CTO) and Ezra Spier (Fellow) about civic hacking at Code for America, technical sustainability in government, skill gap for more modern software in government, open city data and more.

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