A total of six teams participated in Honolulu’s first civic hackathon this past weekend, each developing anapplication that takes advantage of public data made available online by the city. The top three teams won cash prizes provided by the hackathon’s sponsors, and two of them focused on TheBus and its web services API (or application programming interface). [...]
Entries Tagged as 'opendata'
New Apps Unveiled at the City’s First Hackathon
January 24th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Government, Technology, The Web
Gov. Abercrombie on Open Data
January 24th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Government, Politics, Technology, The Web
Gov. Neil Abercrombie yesterday delivered his second “State of the State” address before the Legislature. And technology was one of the priorities he singled out as key to the state’s long-term future. He mentioned the Hawaii Broadband Initiative, consolidation of disparate state systems under the Office of Information Management and Technology, and major renewable energy and [...]
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On to the Hackathon, Maps at the Ready
January 5th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Events, Government, Hawaii, Technology, The Web
This year is looking to be a big year in open data, e-democracy, and Gov 2.0. More information is coming online, and more people are thinking of ways to use it. Among the most interesting areas is in mapping and location-based applications.
Tags: citycamp·codeforamerica·coders·developers·maps·opendata·programmers
City Launches Transparency Portal
March 7th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Government, The Web
As an advocate for free access to government data, I was glad to hear about the City and County of Honolulu’s newly launched online transparency initiative, “Citizens Analyzing Numbers Discover Opportunity” (or CAN-DO). Indeed, based on the “About” and “FAQ” pages, the CAN-DO site seems to demonstrate a clear understanding of some of the problems [...]
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Adventures in Open Data
September 14th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Government, Hawaii, Technology, The Web
Local news startup Civil Beat today posted a piece on the names and salaries of state House and Senate members and staff. As before, they posted a watermarked PDF on Slideshare with the download feature disabled, and invited people to become “full members” to use their searchable database. But if you’d like to download and [...]
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