Michigan launches civic hackathon - Code Michigan(michigan.gov)
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Michigan launches civic hackathon - Code Michigan
http://www.michigan.gov/minewswire/0,4629,7-136-3452-308213--,00.html
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this is a great initiative by the State of Michigan. We need more gov agencies to expose their data via public api's for developers to create innovative civic apps.
I keep telling people that we can be a leader in Michigan. There are already volunteer efforts underway in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo to create city API's.
Hopefully Code Michigan can put open data on the road map for a lot of other state municipalities.
Hopefully Code Michigan can put open data on the road map for a lot of other state municipalities.
For some reason, I'm always fascinated by governments releasing APIs for public data. It seems like a data set you could do some powerful things with. When governments take the time to build out a nice API to consume this data, it makes me like them more, too.
AT&T just did a civic hackathon in Chicago with Chicago's open data portal: https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=apis
AT&T just did a civic hackathon in Chicago with Chicago's open data portal: https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=apis
If you want to use your skills to give back here's your chance. If you want to start a company and were looking for an idea here's your opportunity. For more: http://www.michigan.gov/minewswire/0,4629,7-136-3452-308213-...
This is a project I've been involved with since the beginning. Here's my blog post:
http://www.codemichigan.com/post/get-your-secret-power