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I l l \ ‘ l wmooamaommizzois-s 1 City hopes hackathon will boost engagement , , . . 1 BYIAIIBSIACISON theeventthroughtheirOpenCityHallwebâ€" ' .. . i l 01'0"ka site. www.waterloo.calen[government] / 1 openâ€"city-hall.asp. ' V . City stafi' are preparing to hand over roams Ten ideas were submitted before the subâ€" ‘n' ' i“ if . .r ’ , .‘ x of city data to hackers and coders for the mission window closed last month and they . .4 a I " , ‘~ ' ' " ' ‘ benefit of all citizens as Waterloo gets set to covered a wide range of issues and concerns. _ s ’ , , , hostitsfitst hackathon laterthisfall. including an app that shows all the mental .1 - - ._ 4-. fi’ . . , ‘ Teams of up to four coders will have 36 health resources in an area. or an app that , ‘7'. 5“ ' _ . " ‘ hours to develop an app or program using notifies all users whenever the city has a / V "' b _ . / 7 .â€" Z ‘ the data starting Oct. 24 at the Centre for road closure nearby or makes changes to the ’s%- W . ‘ ‘ W... .. y'-. . . . lntemational Governance and Innovation. city's myriad of bylaws. Another suggestion l l J ‘ a \ A" y - y and the winner will collect 51.500 and the was a program that shows users the progress ‘ J .\ r t ‘ r y 3 t y chance to work with city staff to fully devel- of snowplows in the winter and displays the l Ll l l ‘ ‘ .. ‘ j I ' ‘ , w _' ‘ ‘ r‘ ‘ ; 1 QLL op their idea. ‘ expected wait time for their street. ‘4 ‘ l“ L‘ " 4V ' “ ' ’ M“ “w““ "‘ ”They'll have a creative space to do what- ‘That's definitely what we were hoping ever they wish to do with the data.~ said Raj for." said Sian of the variety of ideas submit- COMFORT PLUS OFFERS YOU SOME Stan, a business development specialist with ted to the city website. _ the City of Waterloo. The project is directly “As city employees we tend to think based GREAT WAYS To S AVE!!! related to the city's open data initiative to on what's around us and what we're familiar - 1 make more information awailable to citizens with, but really getting the community's "‘ . l r ' ‘ 1 l “Ultimately the goal is to have our com- engagement and perspective on what they ‘ 1 ' l '1 . ‘ munity engaged with our data, because it would like tosee is important." '1 f 3 l l ‘ l . isn't only our data." Sian said the various departments at the . , _ 1' Participants will retain full ownership of city are still working to determine exactly their creation and the winner will not be what information will bemade availableand required to work with the city to further what will need to be held back for privacy develop their idea. issues. > 7 __ v . lzntries will be judged by Mayor Dave Geographic information and building ' 1 . 1 1 - a l laworsky and Kartik 'l‘alwar. co»founder of permit data is relatively easy to make acces~ ' 1‘ A 1 Hack the North, and they will be judged on sible. but more private information â€" such . l l . - _. ‘ their technicality, originality, practicality. as the city's tax rolls ~ is still up for discus- 1 aesthetics and the “wow" factor. Second and sion. ‘ third place entries Will receive $1,000 and In luly 20l3 the city announced its com- 1 5500 respectively. mitment to the principles of open data and ‘ ()pen data is the concept that govern- to make city data publicly available at no } merit data should be available freely to cost for re-use for the benefit of the citizens. h“ l everyone to use and publish as they wish. businesses and visitors. The city is even con- ‘ 5. . a ‘ y ‘ The goal is to use that data in new and inter- sidering transforming the farther Camegie . fag; }' . pm x " " . ”#3515; 3, r esting ways for educational and business library intoanopen data centre. ' ~ _ ’ ”5:": a. I ‘ at f? purposes. and to promote more open and For more information visit ‘. ‘N ‘ Mtg 51 a" i" , transparent government. www.challengepostcom and search "Water- ‘3'". . . y“ g .« ;' 5:": 'r The City encouraged members of the loo (Mel‘esf in the search bar. Keystration “ “If? 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