It is time for our annual spring weekend hack weekend - #CodeAcrossNYC! You must register at http://bit.ly/CodeAcrossNYC2014

On 22 & 23 Feb, we will double down on our open government advocacy and work with Manhattan Borough President, NY City Council members, and Community Boards to build useful tools on top of NYC's open data. 

 

We need New York’s civic hackers, mappers, designers, data wranglers, and content editors to make NYC’s open government data useful to government.

For these two days,  

For those of you who are great writers, we are pulling together a tool that will enable City Council members, their staff, and Community Boards search, learn, and empower themselves with OUR tools. This tool will document tech tools and datasets relevant to governing in NYC.

Prizes will be awarded to the best prototypes. Awards will be announced later.

Eligibility

Eligible applicants must be a team or individual that is physically present at the event and substantially contribted to the submitted project during the event.

Requirements

You should submit an image and description of your project on this challengepost site.  You will have the opportunity to present your project to the hackathon before voting begins.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

6 non-cash prizes
Best Overall Civic App
1 winner

Most Creative Use of Open Data
1 winner

Best Visualization of NYC Open Data
1 winner

Best User Experience
1 winner

Best City Council/Community Board App
1 winner

Best Citizen Engagement App
1 winner

Devpost Achievements

Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:

How to enter

To enter, simply submit your project via this challengepost challenge.

Judges

Noel Hidalgo

Noel Hidalgo

Judging Criteria

  • Overall Civic App Awesomeness
  • Creative Use of Open Data
  • Visualization of NYC Open Data
  • User Experience
  • City Council/Community Board Utility
  • Citizen Engagement

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