Hack For Change: Miami
Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 8:30 AM – Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 7:00
The LAB Miami
400 Northwest 26th Street
Miami, FL 33127
Register Online

Hack For Change: Miami is helping build a community of civic innovation in South Florida. A wide variety of individuals and organizations have come together to foster of a culture of open government, civic engagement, sustainability and technology for good.

Hack For Change: Miami will have three different themes:

The Art of Government Data // #artofgovdata
We want participants to explore the use government data as the raw material for artistic expression. What do "we" and "our society" look like when visualized by artists working together with programmers? What do we sound like if composers use government data sets as the fuel for composition?

Sustainability // #code2sustain
How can we leverage environmental data to hack solutions for a more sustainable future? #code2sustain will unlock green data sets for innovators to develop game-changing applications. 

Code For America Write-a-thon
No coding experience? No problem. Get started with civic hacking with a write-a-thon for MiamiWiki.org with Miami’s new Code For America Brigade and Hacks/Hackers Miami. Your local knowledge, stories and photos will help create and edit a community-driven Wiki about our city that engages visitors and residents.

Please Only Register One Profile

National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June 1-2, 2013, 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.

The event will leverage the expertise and entrepreneurial spirit of those outside federal, state and local government to drive meaningful, technology-based solutions for federal, state and local government. It demonstrates what’s possible when we all work together to strengthen our society and our lives. YOU can make a difference no matter where you live.

You should participate in National Day of Civic Hacking because the toughest challenges are not one community’s alone to solve. This is a unique opportunity to get involved, connect with others like yourself, and develop technology that will make the world a better place.
o   Demonstrate a commitment to the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration.
o   Exercise a government’s interest in using open data and technology, in partnership with others, to address your local community’s felt needs.
o   Liberate open data that can inform better problem solving in every community.
o   Continue to collectively map a national innovation ecosystem and create new access points to that system.
o   Engage citizens in cities with little technology infrastructure to contribute to changing their community through open source, open data, entrepreneurship and code development.
o   Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education by encouraging students to utilize open technology for solutions to real challenges.
o   Encourage large scale partnership and mutual understanding.

Hack For Change: Miami is made possible by a collaborative team of civic innovators.
Richard Bookman – UM Miller School of Medicine
Daniel Lafuente – The LAB Miami
Sawsan Khuri – UM Center for Computational Sciences
Wifredo Fernandez – The LAB Miami
Ernie Hsiung – LYD Labs, Code For America Brigade
Monica Ochaney – code2sustain
Rebekah Monson – Hacks/Hackers, Code For America Brigade
Andrej Kostresevic – New Frontier Nomads
Steven Luis – FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences
Assia Alexandrova  – Miami Dade County
Burton Rosenberg – UM Department of Computer Science
Colby Leider – UM Frost School of Music
Chris Sopher – Knight Foundation
Brett Hudson – Knight Foundation
Jaap Donath – Beacon Council
Elaine Chen – Miami Herald/WLRN
Allan Tito – Apperfy
Lyndi Bowman – Beacon Council
Matt Haggman – Knight Foundation
UM Office of Civic and Community Engagement