Jul. 9, 2014 9:56 am
Philly ASAP’s After School Directory to Become a Philly 311 Widget
The After School Programs wiki Last summer, Philly 311 held a contest calling for civic developers and community activists to submit ideas for a new widget on the Philly311 mobile app, which provides a way for community members to report neighborhood issues directly into the city government work order systems from their smartphone. Chris Alfano, CTO […]
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Mar. 28, 2014 11:00 am
What Makes Philadelphia One of the Most Active Civic Hacking Communities in the Country
Part 3 in our series with TEDxPhiladelphia explores the many ways the region is leading the way in civic hacking and open data projects. Hacking and hackers have a bad reputation as people who break into computer security systems and steal information–but today, hacking is more and more frequently referred to as taking something that already exists […]