powerless, lost in the crowd, politically numb

“There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes” - Benjamin Franklin

Hacking tax forms

What we do

Events: Theme based hackdays

“A barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.”

The application building track

Web application building formula

1.An idea for an application 2.Some data3. A bit of web programming code x some sleek visual design = freshly baked sometimes working/ (often not) web prototype !!

Data driven news

Data driven news

Newspaper club

Political Process focused projects

Political Process focused projects

Data visualization helps explain complex systems

Travel times, property prices

National data catalogs

National data catalog NL in production

Go linked data, go open data!

43 apps submitted

Reaching new sub-geek communities

Apps for Space

School of data journalism

Closing thoughts

Participatory Budgeting is an apolitical, non-ideological instrument of participatory governance

Rise of crypto-currencies

Credits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharkbait/http://www.flickr.com/photos/knolleary_papercamphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/4016849260/http://www.geekologie.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/daleremotehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Contact

Who: JAMES BURKESite: www.hackdeoverheid.nl Twitter: @hackdeoverheidSite: www.lifesized.net Twitter: @lifesized Email: james@hackdeoverheid.nl

THANKS

Credits

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharkbait/http://www.flickr.com/photos/knolleary_papercamphttp://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/4016849260/http://www.geekologie.comhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/daleremotehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/

Contact

Who: JAMES BURKESite: www.hackdeoverheid.nl Twitter: @hackdeoverheidSite: www.lifesized.net Twitter: @lifesized Email: james@hackdeoverheid.nl

THANKS