National Days of Civic Hacking MKE!

Milwaukee Data Initiative is hosting the 2014 HackMKE Civic Hackathon, part of the National Days of Civic Hacking May 31 & June 1 at Bucketworks! The Milwaukee Data Initiative is teaming up with local devs, the City of Milwaukee, the County of Milwaukee and BucketWorks to tackle local data projects and answer a national data challenge! Open data supporters, designers, programmers and data analysts will be travelling from around the state to create open data applications, data scrapers, maps and data sets.

Civic Apps and open data help improve civic life by giving easier access to public information and services. “Civic Hackathons allow you to impact your community directly” says MDI member and co-organizer Aaron Hartwig. “This is how we make Milwaukee a better and and more attractive place to live.”

Attendees to this event will include:

• Aaron Hartwig, UWM student, developer, digital hacktivist

• Jordan Mau, Nonprofit Development Specialist and Data Analyst

• Michael Diedrick - Owner, Byte Studios

• Nancy Olson, City of Milwaukee Chief Information Officer

• Representatives from various Milwaukee County and City departments
Local experts on MCTS transit data

• Michael Hostad - UWM Director, Web and Mobile Services; UWM App Brewery Founder

The agenda for the day includes:

• Meet and Greet (Saturday, 9am)

• Pitch data ideas from City, County and YOU (10am)

• Assemble teams and begin (10:30am)

• Presentation of progress (3pm)

• Final presentations (SUNDAY, 3pm)

Not familiar with the National Civic Days of Hacking?

National Day of Civic Hacking is an international event that will take place May 31 – June 1, 2014, in cities around the world. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to improve our communities and the governments that serve them. Anyone can participate; you don’t have to be an expert in technology, you just have to care about your neighborhood and community.