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Civic Hacking: A Practical Guide To Re-using Public Sector Information
Tuesday July 3rd 2007
6.00pm - 8.00pm
(Doors open 5.30pm for a light buffet and refreshments)
Technium CAST
Parc Menai, Bangor
Guest speaker : Ben Campbell, Freelance Programmer
The talk will present some case study Civic Hacking web sites which make it much easier for people to participate in local and central Government activities. From helping you to write to your elected
representatives, through finding people to pitch in and clean up your local park, to keeping tabs on what journalists are writing about, innovative examples of civic hacking are springing up all over the
internet.
Some of the tools and technology used to implement these case study sites will be touched on, along with aspects of the organisation and management. In particular, how small bands of motivated
people can often be spectacularly innovative and productive.
About the speaker
Ben Campbell is a programmer whose background is in the games industry. Originally from New Zealand, he now lives in North Wales and works from home as a freelance programmer. He's currently
involved in a variety of projects from mobile phone programming through to a website to automatically track journalists in the UK. Ben is a big fan of Free and Open Source Software and a frequent
victim of the Real Institute press-gang.
This event forms part of the ITWales Software Developers programme, which is supported by the Welsh Assembly Government.
This event is also supported by the British Computer Society.
Booking for this event is now closed
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