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Hope springs eternal, and civic hacking is always in style. Leading up to the fifth Hawaii Annual Code Challenge (HACC), there will be a series of virtual workshops to sharpen your skills, beginning with Google and Data Visualization tools! #HACC2020 #civichacking #hackathon #hawaii #hawaiitech #hawaiitechevents https://www.instagram.com/p/B-bJd4rD_h2/?igshid=1q11yykdm9qkn
June 17th - Torino
Giving a talk at RIF Lab - Turin chapter.
ATX Hack for Change
By Robert
This June, BlueChasm went to ATX Hack for Change Hackathon as a sponsor and Project Champion.
As a sponsor, we got to support this great cause which is a part of the National Day of Civic Hacking. This event is about getting great minds together and building something for the civil good. It ranges from mobile apps to websites and even hardware hacks that are meant to help the public.
This hackathon is different than others because unlike regular hackathons, there isn’t a “Grand Prize” to be awarded to the best idea at the end of the event. This hackathon is about building something to better our city and citizens of Austin. Project Champions come with an idea and present it to the crowd of talented programmers and designers at the beginning of the event. Shortly after, teams form and people join whichever project they like the most/are inspired by and they lend their skills to make the project come to life.
At ATX Hack for Change, BlueChasm was selected as a Project Champion. We came up with the idea of a smart sprinkler system that would not only check for the weather conditions but it would also take into consideration the city’s watering restrictions which are dictated by the Water Conservation Department.
With this project we hoped to help both the city and the citizens to save money and conserve water for commercial properties, retail properties, multifamily housing, farmers, greenhouses and single family residential which are required to irrigate often. They would see a big difference in their water consumption which would help them save money and protect the environment.
We had an amazing team of Engineering students and IT professionals that we teamed with. The team had fun building the software and developing on the hardware.
Most of the Project Champions came with their projects which they wanted to develop into full blown services or products. Our project was more of a way to spread the idea of smart watering devices and helping cities with their water conservation. Mainly by developing an API that would make it easier for developers to build water-smart devices.
In the end, the entire team had fun and some even decided to continue working on hardware related hacks. We had an amazing weekend at St.Edwards University and it was inspiring to see so many developers and designers work for a weekend in the spirit of civil good. We are definitely planning to attend next year’s ATX Hack for Change event!
Ciudades v/s Uber: ¿la única manera?
En todas las ciudades en las que se ha instalado Uber, se han levantado de manera corporativa contra ellos los taxis tradicionales, logrando en muchos casos desde regulaciones hasta prohibición de funcionamiento. Pero, ¿Por qué prohibir?, ¿Por qué quedarse en una lógica del “versus”? ¿Por qué no abordar el problema desde una lógica de reciprocidad? Por ejemplo, Uber levanta diariamente data importante acerca de flujo de vehículos, horarios de uso, perfiles de usuarios, hotspot por comuna, etc. Información riquísima para un Ministerio de Transporte y la posibilidad de uso para la toma de decisiones en el ámbito transporte público. Entonces, ¿Por qué no explorar acuerdos de colaboración entre los organismos públicos pertinentes y Uber? ¿Por qué a cambio de autorización de tránsito y negocio, no pedir a cambio esa data?.
Por otro lado, en un contexto dónde términos como civic hacking o emprendimientos cívicos son tendencias en países con una potente relación innovación y ciudad, ¿Por qué no tomar y mejorar estos modelos privados desde lo público, con recursos públicos?. ¿Por qué no estimular nuevos actores en este tipo de tecnologías pero usando el transporte oficialmente instalado, y generar una competitividad que permita un buen servicio?.
Hay tantas maneras de abordar este problema, que por cierto es relevante, pero la prohibición y la consecuente perpetuación de un mal servicio (pésimo servicio) no es la vía en el contexto en el que estamos. Hay tantas respuestas innovadoras, participativas, y fácilmente testeables que permitirían definir y abordar políticas de otra manera, que nos permitieran enfrentar los desafíos de la ciudad desde una mirada centrada en el ciudadano, y no en el monopolio que puede tener un gremio que ha demostrado a lo largo de los años tener cero interés en sus pasajeros, ni en la imagen país que generan al transportar turistas
Los taxis tienen muchas externalidades negativas como para tener el sartén por el mango.

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I worry that scholars — especially scholars who see themselves as radicals or liberals — are content to study and support only the increasingly radical, underground oppositional forms that free software takes—and to avoid a careful cultural analysis of the domesticated forms that open source is taking. Contemporary critiques of immaterial capitalism or communicative capitalism or whatever the latest branding is, fail miserably at the task Marx once set himself: to describe the workings of capitalism in such excruciating detail that the critique could not help but emerge from that description.
Chris Kelty, There is no Free Software (2013)
Civic hackers' message to gov
Civic hacking is...
“Civic Hacking” is the awareness of a condition that is suboptimal in a neighborhood, community or place and the perception of one’s own ability to effect change on that condition. The apps are incidental.
A definition I dig. from Mark Headd.