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After ten years as Chief Information Officer of Westchester County, NY (a million people, just north of New York City), I joined IBSG mostly specializing in government, below the level of the natio... More about njacknis

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HackingCongress

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A newly created website -- http://www.hackingcongress.org/ -- of interest.

Their self-description follows:

HackingCongress is a new hub for projects at the intersection of civics & technology, fostering civic engagement and education, advancing government transparency, and supporting communication with government. ("Hacking" has a dual meaning in the computer world and in this case it is positive slang for creative programming.) The focus of this site is on projects related to the U.S. Congress and state-level legislatures.

Welcome to HackingCongress

Sat, 03/14/2009 - 19:16 — admin

Welcome to HackingCongress! This site is just starting up as of March 14, 2009 --- the goal is to be a hub, or at least a links page, for the developer community surrounding the intersection of civics and technology especially (but not exclusively) as it relates to the U.S. Congress.

Your feedback on what to put here is most welcome! You can leave a comment to this post.

Or, create an account and start editing pages. Make sure your project is listed with a description you like, and add any other relevant projects, data sources, and APIs to the appropriate pages.

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Paul Johnston

In the Uk we had an interesting event along these lines recently called Hack the Government Day. It was a lively session and seems to have generated some interesting ideas, see http://rewiredstate.org/

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