Lots of info. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Nicholas Skytland" <[email protected]> Date: May 20, 2014 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [NDoCH Event Organizers] Media Kit?? To: "Allen Buck" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
*Allen et al, * Thanks for the note. It's helpful to know what you need - so please let me know if we can help in any other way. I've provided a ton of information here that should help you with media and also just general outreach. See below for all the details. Also note that you can find a lot of information on the website at http://hackforchange.org/about/press/. If you are a local lead, and you have a moment, could you please send me a 2-3 sentence description of the highlights for your event. I've included some examples in the "example stories" section below. We'd love to draw attention to your event in the national and international press, but we can't do so if we don't know what to talk about! Email me at [email protected]. --------------------------------------- *OUTLINE* 1. General Information 2. National Day stats 3. List of various models 4. Example stories 5. Talking points 6. List of locations that SecondMuse will be located at. *GENERAL INFORMATION* What: National Day of Civic Hacking URL: http://hackforchange.org When: May 31 – June 1, 2014 Where: Cities around the US (and internationally in 11 total countries this year) Who: YOU Why: To improve our communities and the governments that serve them Contact us: [email protected] *NATIONAL DAY STATS* - 119 events - 186 registered local organizers - Events in 101 cities, 39 US states and 12 countries - 4 global sponsors (Intel, Knight, Socrata, Yahoo) - 3 organizing partners - 11 contributing organizations - 182 local sponsoring organizations (with 50% of local leads reporting) - 18 federal agencies - 47 Code for America brigades - 11 events in Knight Foundation focus communities - 6 RHoK events - 9 [freespace]s - 4 block parties - 10 unconferences (one virtual unconference in 6 countries) - 88 hackathons - 12 other events, including Demo Days and international meetups - 26 posted challenges (and growing daily) - 100+ datasets and resources *TALKING POINTS* National Day of Civic Hacking nearly 120 events organized by local groups around the world. These events will focus on using technology to tackle a local civic or social challenge. - The events will take place on May 31 and June 1, 2014. - Participating events include a hackathon at the White House, RHoK hackathons, CfA Brigade Meetups, Super Happy Block Parties, [freespaces], unconferences and other events. - Participants will use technology, publicly available data, and entrepreneurial thinking to tackle some of our most pressing social challenges such as coordination of homeless shelters or access to fresh, local, affordable food. Civic hackers are community members (engineers, software developers, designers, entrepreneurs, activists, concerned citizens) who collaborate with others, including government, to invent ways to improve quality of life in their communities. - The toughest problems we face are both hyper local and universal. And so, National Day of Civic Hacking gets communities together over two days, but helps you share and communicate with communities around the world about issues you care about most. - Anyone can participate to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology. You don’t have to be an expert in technology, but you do have to care about your neighborhood and community to participate. - Examples of civic hacks include an app that allows your smart phone to alert the city to dangerous potholes or a website that helps citizens understand how your local politicians vote on specific legislation. Civic hacking as a form of citizen engagement and volunteerism is gaining momentum reaching cities across America not those known for technology and innovation. More than 100 cities around the world will be hosting events as part of National Day! - National Day of Civic Hacking recognizes civic hackers are already active and contributing to the betterment of your community. - National Day of Civic Hacking sees civic hackers as essential to vibrant community much like your neighborhood cleanup crew or your neighborhood watch group. - National Day of Civic Hacking will showcase the value of getting involved in and sustaining civic hacking in your community. - National Day of Civic Hacking unites communities around the country around innovation and civic engagement. Government has vasts amounts of information that can be used to improve our lives, making it publicly accessible is called “open data.” Understanding and utilizing that data empowers individuals in their daily lives. - Open data allows developers in the community to build web and phone applications: helping citizens find the nearest farmers market that accepts food assistance programs, or real time transit applications that utilize personal transit habits. - National Day of Civic Hacking is being supported by more than 20 federal agencies that are opening up new data sets, such as real-time locations of public transit vehicles. - Getting this data into an accessible format, which civic hackers work to do, will empower you in your daily life and create opportunities for communities, businesses, and governments to make things work better. National Day of Civic Hacking taps into the power of mass collaboration. - Mass collaboration uses public-private-people partnerships between governments, companies, and communities to solve challenges together. - National Day of Civic Hacking is based on the belief that cross pollination between businesses, governments and those with a desire for social good leads to innovative solutions to complex social challenges. *What organizations are involved in National Day of Civic Hacking?* - Intel is the headline sponsor. Intel is committed to the National Day of Civic Hacking as a way to support its corporate strategies to care for our people and the planet, as well as inspire the next generation by unlocking the power of their data. - The Knight Foundation is the challenge sponsor. The Knight Foundation is committed to supporting "transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. - Additional sponsors include Socrata and Yahoo!. - The organizing partners of the National Day of Civic Hacking include: SecondMuse, Code for America and Innovation Endeavors. - Many other organizations contribute to the National Day of Civic Hacking, including Challenge Post, Institute for the Future, Sunlight Foundation, Khadem Foundation and the Random Hacks of Kindness community. - 182 organizations are sponsoring or supporting local events (with 50% of local leads reporting) - 18 federal government agencies and departments; several state governments and dozens of local governments are participating. *The many benefits of the National Day of Civic Hacking include:* - Liberate open data that can inform better problem solving in every community. - Engage citizens to contribute to changing their communities and cities through open source, open data, entrepreneurship and code development. - Demonstrate a commitment to the principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration to fuel innovation. Exercise the interest of government in using open data and technology, in partnership with others, to address your local community’s felt needs. - Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education by encouraging students to utilize open technology for solutions to real challenges. - Encourage large scale partnership and mutual understanding. *EXAMPLE STORIES* - In Columbus, Ohio, the Civic}{Hacks event will invite city residents to collaborate on local challenges around homelessness, poverty and failing schools and work with the city for implementation. - In Harpswell, Maine, local organizers will be opening a new citizen science focus include grassroots mapping of invasive aquatic species threatening the local ecosystem. - In Arlington, Virginia, the National Science Foundation is partnering with Code for Northern VA to build solutions using NSF science research data. - In Dawsonville, Georgia, the NXTG Youth Clubhouse will be facilitating the development of a mobile hydroponics garden with electronic monitors at the high school level which will be a prototype for providing healthier foods for young people. - In Virginia Beach, Virginia, the local brigade Code for Hampton Roads is organizing a GIS-focused hackathon around coastal flooding and climate resilience. - In Tacloban, Philippines, community development organizers are putting together a [freespace] event to focus on culturally-driven redevelopment post-disaster and how news can be projected into areas of the community who aren't connected. - In Washington, DC, the Sunlight Foundation is hosting Transparency Camp - an opengov unconference. Hundreds of people will gather to share their knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make our government really work for the people. - In St. Louis, Missouri, organizers are taking a citywide approach. Build4STL will include a hackathon, an Open Street Map editathon, multiple technology trainings in the community, launch of a new Code for America brigade and opening of a new Big Data Lab. - In Melbourne, Australia, Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) Melbourne is joining the global community to hack for good. - In Redding, California, Redding City Lab is "hacking the story and image of their city" through Wikipedia, gathering a group of locals to help tell a new narrative of the city's future. - In Augusta, Georgia, local organization HackAugusta is planning Super Happy Augusta, a festival celebrating technology, creativity and innovation. The party will include urban makerspaces, collaborative music, robotics and brew your own beer or root beer. - In Los Angeles, California, the mayor, Eric Garcetti, is working with local organizers at Hack for LA to host an event at the City Hall showcasing the latest tech, from 3D printing to robotics, and continue to inspire young community members to consider careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). *SECONDMUSE LOCATIONS* We will have SecondMuse people at the following events. Many of the sponsoring organizations will also have people attending the events. - San Francisco and Bay Area events - Asheville, NC and Augusta, GA - Portland, OR - New Orleans, LA - Washington, DC - Philadelphia, PA - Los Angeles, CA - Albuquerque, NM *CHALLENGE TOPICS* This is a list of many of the topics for National Day challenges. Please note that this is not exhaustive. - Food/Hunger - Urban planning/Urban development - Open data/Open Gov - Children (health, education, CPS) - Communications/media - Local projects - Transportation - Economic development/startups - Internet of Things - Education/Schools - Health Care/Health Data/EMRs - Nonprofits - Workforce development/Unemployment - Housing/Homelessness/Home ownership - Disaster response - Narrative of city - Renewable & Sustainable Energy - Arts & Culture - Human-powered Recreation - Public safety - Poverty - Water - Government spending - Libraries - Veterans/Military - Science data - Aging/Disability *FULL LIST OF EVENTS* *We can provide additional information on any of these events if helpful. All events also have event pages located here: http://hackforchange.org/events/ *Hackathons* Akron Albany Arlington Asheville Athens Atlanta Austin Austin Baltimore Bangor Berkeley Birmingham Boise Boston Brisbane Burlington Charlotte Chattanooga Chicago Chicago Cleveland Columbia Columbus Dayton Denver Edmonton Fort Myers Fort Wayne Fort Worth Fresno & Clovis Harpswell Holyoke Houston Indianapolis Jersey City Lafayette Las Vegas Las Vegas Lexington Lincoln Long Island / Hicksville Los Angeles Louisville Macon Manchester Melbourne Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Haven New Orleans New York City Oakland Palo Alto Philadelphia Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Portland Portland Raleigh Redding Rochester Rockville Sacramento Salt Lake City San Antonio San Francisco San Jose San Juan Savannah Seattle Seattle South Bend St. Louis Sydney Tampa Venice Beach Virginia Beach Washington Washington Whistler *UnConference* Ann Arbor Bangalore Chesterfield Kansas City Rome San Juan Tallahassee Tulsa Washington Raleigh *Freespace* Austin Barcelona Butare Dammam Ludwigshafen am Rhein Nova Mambone Paris San Francisco Tacloban *Block Party* Augusta Omaha Orlando Red Oak *Other* Albuquerque Anchorage Chengdu Dawsonville Detroit Honolulu Los Angeles Miami New Orleans Providence Washington On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Allen Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Does Code for America have a media kit for events? > > We're kind of pressed for time and a media kit is so much more formal when > presenting to schools, libraries, and the city. Is anyone currently working > on one they might share? We're working from scratch and don't mind posting > our work when it's done. > > Thanks, > Allen > ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/6oxjpY2Ys2iAoPnAo7weWu For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
