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Civic Hacking

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National Day of Civic Hacking, described by its organizers as “a national event bringing together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs across the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent us-ing publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country.” With 95 events across dozens of cities, it’s among the biggest days dedicated to civic engagement in recent history. This is exciting, but even more exciting is what this says about the movement it represents. In many ways, it’s a sort of coming-of-age party for a new wave of engaged citizens.

In organizing and attending similar events over the past few years, I’ve noticed an incredible diversity of interests and motivations within this movement. People participate for a wide variety of reasons – which is to say, civic hacking means many different things to many different people. What began as a niche theory about the potential to improve government using technology has quickly expanded to focus more on changing the culture of government to work more effectively and creatively with its citizens. Technol-ogy can often be a part of improving this citizen-government interface, but it’s only part of the change we’re seeing. These days I see just as many community leaders, architects, environmentalists, artists, and other professionals coming out to events under the purview of civic hacking as coders and designers. At the same time, tactical urbanism has developed into a sort of civic coding analogue for the built envi-ronment.

In thinking about all of this, I realized that there was still no complete definition of civic hacking which encompassed the range of approaches, acts, and participants the movement has come to represent. Within such an expansive and rapidly changing context, maybe there never will be a singular definition — and more importantly, maybe there shouldn’t be. At the same time, the most successful movements in history have stemmed from a common vision — while also embracing their own diversity and leaving room for that collective vision to grow and evolve over time.

To this end, I set out to develop a definition for civic hacking, which I’ve summed up below. If the only outcome is making it easier for me to explain my own interpretation of the term, great — but I’m hoping it might help others do the same, and make the movement even more effective as a result.

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National Day of Civic Hacking, described by its organizers as “a national event bringing together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs across the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent us-ing publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country.” With 95 events across dozens of cities, it’s among the biggest days dedicated to civic engagement in recent history. This is exciting, but even more exciting is what this says about the movement it represents. In many ways, it’s a sort of coming-of-age party for a new wave of engaged citizens.

In organizing and attending similar events over the past few years, I’ve noticed an incredible diversity of interests and motivations within this movement. People participate for a wide variety of reasons – which is to say, civic hacking means many different things to many different people. What began as a niche theory about the potential to improve government using technology has quickly expanded to focus more on changing the culture of government to work more effectively and creatively with its citizens. Technol-ogy can often be a part of improving this citizen-government interface, but it’s only part of the change we’re seeing. These days I see just as many community leaders, architects, environmentalists, artists, and other professionals coming out to events under the purview of civic hacking as coders and designers. At the same time, tactical urbanism has developed into a sort of civic coding analogue for the built envi-ronment.

In thinking about all of this, I realized that there was still no complete definition of civic hacking which encompassed the range of approaches, acts, and participants the movement has come to represent. Within such an expansive and rapidly changing context, maybe there never will be a singular definition — and more importantly, maybe there shouldn’t be. At the same time, the most successful movements in history have stemmed from a common vision — while also embracing their own diversity and leaving room for that collective vision to grow and evolve over time.

To this end, I set out to develop a definition for civic hacking, which I’ve summed up below. If the only outcome is making it easier for me to explain my own interpretation of the term, great — but I’m hoping it might help others do the same, and make the movement even more effective as a result.

시빅 해킹의 등장배경

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Civic Hacking

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National Day of Civic Hacking, described by its organizers as “a national event bringing together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs across the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent us-ing publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country.” With 95 events across dozens of cities, it’s among the biggest days dedicated to civic engagement in recent history. This is exciting, but even more exciting is what this says about the movement it represents. In many ways, it’s a sort of coming-of-age party for a new wave of engaged citizens.

In organizing and attending similar events over the past few years, I’ve noticed an incredible diversity of interests and motivations within this movement. People participate for a wide variety of reasons – which is to say, civic hacking means many different things to many different people. What began as a niche theory about the potential to improve government using technology has quickly expanded to focus more on changing the culture of government to work more effectively and creatively with its citizens. Technol-ogy can often be a part of improving this citizen-government interface, but it’s only part of the change we’re seeing. These days I see just as many community leaders, architects, environmentalists, artists, and other professionals coming out to events under the purview of civic hacking as coders and designers. At the same time, tactical urbanism has developed into a sort of civic coding analogue for the built envi-ronment.

In thinking about all of this, I realized that there was still no complete definition of civic hacking which encompassed the range of approaches, acts, and participants the movement has come to represent. Within such an expansive and rapidly changing context, maybe there never will be a singular definition — and more importantly, maybe there shouldn’t be. At the same time, the most successful movements in history have stemmed from a common vision — while also embracing their own diversity and leaving room for that collective vision to grow and evolve over time.

To this end, I set out to develop a definition for civic hacking, which I’ve summed up below. If the only outcome is making it easier for me to explain my own interpretation of the term, great — but I’m hoping it might help others do the same, and make the movement even more effective as a result.

시빅 해킹의 등장배경

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정부의 실패 => 시민참여

Civic Hacking

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National Day of Civic Hacking, described by its organizers as “a national event bringing together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs across the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent us-ing publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country.” With 95 events across dozens of cities, it’s among the biggest days dedicated to civic engagement in recent history. This is exciting, but even more exciting is what this says about the movement it represents. In many ways, it’s a sort of coming-of-age party for a new wave of engaged citizens.

In organizing and attending similar events over the past few years, I’ve noticed an incredible diversity of interests and motivations within this movement. People participate for a wide variety of reasons – which is to say, civic hacking means many different things to many different people. What began as a niche theory about the potential to improve government using technology has quickly expanded to focus more on changing the culture of government to work more effectively and creatively with its citizens. Technol-ogy can often be a part of improving this citizen-government interface, but it’s only part of the change we’re seeing. These days I see just as many community leaders, architects, environmentalists, artists, and other professionals coming out to events under the purview of civic hacking as coders and designers. At the same time, tactical urbanism has developed into a sort of civic coding analogue for the built envi-ronment.

In thinking about all of this, I realized that there was still no complete definition of civic hacking which encompassed the range of approaches, acts, and participants the movement has come to represent. Within such an expansive and rapidly changing context, maybe there never will be a singular definition — and more importantly, maybe there shouldn’t be. At the same time, the most successful movements in history have stemmed from a common vision — while also embracing their own diversity and leaving room for that collective vision to grow and evolve over time.

To this end, I set out to develop a definition for civic hacking, which I’ve summed up below. If the only outcome is making it easier for me to explain my own interpretation of the term, great — but I’m hoping it might help others do the same, and make the movement even more effective as a result.

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나의 직접적인 참여로 개선해보자 !

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• Let’s start with what’s already out there. The most valuable contribution to this discussion that I’ve seen is Alex Howard’s definition of civic innovation:

• Civic Innovation is a new idea, technology or methodology that challenges and improves upon ex-isting processes and systems, thereby improving the lives of citizens or the function of the society that they live within.

• I think this definition is spot on — but civic innovation and civic hacking aren’t completely inter-changeable. Based on most of my conversations in the space, an easy way of thinking about the dif -ference is that civic hacking is hands-on, citizen-driven action which produces civic innovation — it could be contributing code to an open-source civic app, designing modular street furniture, or con-ducting a workshop with city officials to discuss how new policy could improve a neighborhood. A nuanced distinction, perhaps, but an important one nonetheless if we want these terms to have staying power, rather than die off as the buzzwords of yesteryear. A creative, often technological approach to solving civic problems. [Source]

• Citizens developing their own applications which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. [Source]

• Collaborating with others to create, build, and invent open source solutions using publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country. [Source]

• These touch on different parts of the movement, and I wanted to find some common ground. Combining them, we can see civic hacking as:

• a process to solve problems facing cities

• often, but not explicitly, technology-driven; and

• driven by citizens.

• Let’s keep these points of common ground in mind. Now we need to determine where we draw the boundaries of “civic” and what distinguishes “hacking” as a process.

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https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/

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• Let’s start with what’s already out there. The most valuable contribution to this discussion that I’ve seen is Alex Howard’s definition of civic innovation:

• Civic Innovation is a new idea, technology or methodology that challenges and improves upon ex-isting processes and systems, thereby improving the lives of citizens or the function of the society that they live within.

• I think this definition is spot on — but civic innovation and civic hacking aren’t completely inter-changeable. Based on most of my conversations in the space, an easy way of thinking about the dif -ference is that civic hacking is hands-on, citizen-driven action which produces civic innovation — it could be contributing code to an open-source civic app, designing modular street furniture, or con-ducting a workshop with city officials to discuss how new policy could improve a neighborhood. A nuanced distinction, perhaps, but an important one nonetheless if we want these terms to have staying power, rather than die off as the buzzwords of yesteryear. A creative, often technological approach to solving civic problems. [Source]

• Citizens developing their own applications which give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. [Source]

• Collaborating with others to create, build, and invent open source solutions using publicly-released data, code, and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states, and our country. [Source]

• These touch on different parts of the movement, and I wanted to find some common ground. Combining them, we can see civic hacking as:

• a process to solve problems facing cities

• often, but not explicitly, technology-driven; and

• driven by citizens.

• Let’s keep these points of common ground in mind. Now we need to determine where we draw the boundaries of “civic” and what distinguishes “hacking” as a process.

시빅 해킹의 정의Definition

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https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/06/07/defining-civic-hacking/

역시나 짧고 굵게

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는 것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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From “civic”:

도시 , 시민

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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From “civic innovation”:

현존하는 시정 프로세스 , 시스템을 개선시키는 아이디어

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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From “Hacking”:

할 수 있는 범위 내에서 빨리 무언가를 만들거나 테스트하는 것

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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합쳐서 말하면

From prior “civic hacking” references:

시민들이 주도하여 시정 , 시스템을 개선하기 위해 무언가를 만들거나 테스트하는 것

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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확장된 정의

시빅 해킹은 시민들에 의해서 새로운 도구와 방법으로 지방정부의 시스템과 프로세스를

빠르게 개선하는 행동이다 . 이것은 시민권 행사의 일부이다 .

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해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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일반적 정의

시빅 해킹은 시민들의 주도 하에 Design 과 Technology 를 사용해서우리의 삶을 더 낫게 만드는 활동이다 .

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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조금 다른 정의

시빅 해킹은 우리가 사는 도시를 개선하기 위해 하는

창의적이고 Quickly 한 활동이다 .

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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보다 확장된 정의

시빅 해킹은 정부의 개선을 돕는 창의적이고 quickly 한 활동이다 .

정의가 너무나 많아 ...

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정의가 너무나 많아…

해킹은 할 수 있는 범위 내에서 무언가를 빨리 만들거나 테스트하는

것을 의미한다 .

- 마크 저커버그 ( 페이스북 CEO)

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요약해서 한마디로 정의하면

시빅 해킹은 새로운 형태의 시민참여이다 .

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1. 국외 사례‘ 소화전 입양하기’ (Adopt Hydrant) 서비스

시빅 해킹의 예시Definition

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Example

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http://www.adoptahydrant.org/

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시빅 해킹의 예시Definition

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http://www.adoptahydrant.org/

1. 국외 사례‘ 소화전 입양하기’ (Adopt Hydrant) 서비스

Civic Hacking

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시빅 해킹의 예시Definition

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Example

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http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/

1. 국외 사례‘ 내 돈이 어디로갔지 ?’ (Where Does My Money Go?) 서비스

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시빅 해킹의 예시Definition

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Example

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http://wheredoesmymoneygo.org/

1. 국외 사례나미에 프로젝트

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2. 국내 사례‘ 메르스 맵’

시빅 해킹의 예시Definition

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Example

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시빅 해킹의 예시Definition

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Example

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http://codeforseoul.org/jonmat/

2. 국내 사례존맛국회