Once again, Smart Chicago Collaborative will be a national partner for National Day of Civic Hacking providing training content as well as running our own National Day of Civic Hacking events here in Chicago.
This year, the national organizer for National Day of Civic Hacking is our long-time partner Code for America. Our consultant, Christopher Whitaker will be helping Code for America’s communities team with organizing as well as helping Smart Chicago to provide training content. Our training content will include things like our How to Run a Civic Hackathon and How to Livestream an Event.
Last year, we provided a number of blog posts and videos to help train civic technologists. These blog posts included:
- Civic Hacking 101
- How to Blog
- Introduction to Tabula
- Civic Innovation Toolkit: Twilio
- Civic Innovation Toolkit: Data Portal Demo with @ChicagoCDO
We’ll be updating our old content to ensure it’s current. We’ll also be adding new content to help train civic technologists including lessons on GitHub, Mapbox, WordPress, and more. Additionally, we’ll be writing primers on how to work effectively with governments and nonprofits – as well as primers on subject areas like health, safety and justice, transportation, and education.
Stay tuned for more!
