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Lessons Learned from Civic Hacking

Carrie Maxwell

Description

Budgets, Housing, and Hurricanes. What do all of these things have in common? Civic Hacking. These were local problems that were tackled by a village of coding warriors. There’s a lot Civic Hacking happening in the state of Texas. From giving citizens exposure to city budgeting with Award-winning Budget Party, tackling Section 8, to the Hurricane app creating effort covered by Forbes.