Name: National Day of Civic Hacking DC
Start: 2016-06-04T08:00:00-04:00
End: 2016-06-04T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Chief

National Day of Civic Hacking DC

Saturday

,

July

30

at

7:00pm

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Join DC Civic Hackers, Activists & Designers for a Day of Community Building

This community-building event promotes the uniting of the public sector, private sector, and individuals to solve our country’s social challenges with innovation. Join U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Chief and Microsoft for the fourth installation of the National Day of Civic Hacking.

Our focus this year in DC is microbusinesses. Our goal in DC this year is to help the self-employed revitalize their neighborhoods through the power of local micro-investment and increasing job opportunities for those that need them the most.

Schedule

8:00 - 9:00 AM

Check in and Breakfast

Caffiene and a health-conscious continental breakfast provided to get your creative juices pumping for a marathon of a day.

09:00 - 09:30 AM

Personas and Pitches

We will present a selection of challenges for teams to self-select and dive into prototyping.

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Data and Tools

Find out what opendata/ tools and on-the ground subject matter experts are participating (round-robin)

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Forming and Storming

Teams break out and decide who will do what given the team members' skill sets. All types of prototypes are welcome. Of course we love to see interactive, but customer journeys/maps/story boards/skits and other sorts of ideas are more than welcome.

12:00 – 1:00 PM

Lunch (Norming)

Get to know your team mates better. Meet folks from other teams and find out what they're doing. Figure out what the plan is for the next five hours.

1:00 – 6:00 PM

Performing

Nose to the grindstone. Remember, free coffee.

Your hosts will guide you through the process of getting your prototypes up for presentation.

6:00 - 6:30 PM

Wrap-up

Please be respectful of the work of others by having your apps ready to rock by the start of the first demo.

tweet #hackforchange and a link to your work!

6:30 - 7:00 PM

Audience Voting

The audience will choose their favorite ideas by voting. If you are still working when the first team presents, your team will lose it's ability to vote (probably for itself ;). Only fully attending audience members can vote.

7:00 - 8:00 PM

Balcony Beers and Hors d'oeuvres

Wind down with some drinkies with your new friends. Get contacts and stay connected. We will disband promptly at 8:00 PM, but there might be an after-event nearby ;)

Expanding Opportunity

From the White House: "Creating an Economy Built to Last"

Over the last two decades, small and new businesses have been responsible for creating 2 out of every 3 net new jobs, and today the country’s 28 million small firms employ 60 million Americans, half of the private sector workforce. When America's small businesses are strong and growing, our communities are strong and growing.

A path to the dream

Studies show that 98% of all African American owned businesses are microbusinesses (those with five or fewer employees) and many of those businesses are also owned by women.

A Path to integration

Interest in opening a business is high among immigrants and refugees who have less access to employment opportunities than the general population because they have limited English language skills, lack reliable transportation, a diploma, and are still learning how American society works.

The Backbone of Our Communities

Local businesses are the backbone of the community. These "mom and pops" shops recycle more funds and create more jobs for locals than do national chains.

Local retailers reinvest almost 4x more back into their communities. Locally owned restaurants reinvest twice as much as their nationally-chained counterparts.

How Can Civic Hacking Help?

Via US Senate’s “Wealth Gap Report”:

… according to the Aspen Institute’s “Facts about Business Ownership” 88 percent of entrepreneurs who gained small business counseling were still in business after five years, whereas 50 percent of entrepreneurs who did not receive this training were out of business.

How do we Scale Counseling?

Challenge

The BIAS project successfully applied a variety of scaleable “nudges”(a term used to describe decision-assisting designs that guide human behavior towards making improved choices) towards reducing late child support payments. Might we apply nudges to microbusiness decisions?

The 2016 National Day of Civic Hacking in DC will take place in the expansive and inspiring dwellings of our friends at Chief. White boards, daylight, glass walls and rooftop decks galore.

The Final Countdown!

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The Data

Your prototypes should help financially vulnerable microbusinesses (think Mom and Pops) and/or the self-employed to make better decisions. One way to do this is by leveraging open/freely available data. We'll run through some of the available data sets and tools to help you help these stakeholders.

Check out some of the cool stuff that others have built using the CitySDK:

- https://uscensusbureau.github.io/citysdk/gallery.html

- http://opportunity.census.gov/

Overview from Last Year

from discovery to prototyping

A unique opportunity to contribute to your neighborhoods

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Citizenship

BE COOL

- Be respectful, participatory, and productive.
- Everyone’s ideas, skills, and contributions have value.
- Find a way for people to be productive with their skills (technical or not) and energy.
- Actively involve community groups and those with subject matter expertise in the decision-making process.

- This is a respectful environment for all participants.

GIVE "COMPLIMENT SANDWICHES"

-- Use language such as “yes/and”, not “no/but.”

-- Listen as much as you speak... at least.

Plagarized from: https://github.com/codeforamerica/codeofconduct