[open-government] Civic Hacking Workshop in Bangalore

Wed Jul 28 10:54:35 UTC 2010

Hey Jonathan

I believe it took place this morning at Google India. See Harry Metcalfe's
tweets (http://twitter.com/harrym) for some commentary and links to mock-up
creations:

e.g. http://twitpic.com/29d743

All the best

Tim

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> This sounds great Pranesh! Just to clarify: when and where will it take
> place?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> 2010/7/28 Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org>:
> > http://cis-india.org/advocacy/openness/blog/civic-hacking-workshop/
> >
> > The UK Government's Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office Team for
> > Digital Engagement, Google India and the Centre for Internet and
> > Society, Bangalore are organizing a 'Civic Hacking Workshop', bringing
> > together civic-minded technologists who've been working with
> > governmental data in India and Britain.
> >
> > The workshop will discuss the problems of obtaining data, especially in
> > India, the technological solutions that these various groups have
> > encountered, the difficulties of technology as a mass-based civic
> > solution, and the visions that these groups have for a more engaged
> > civil society and the contributions they seek to make to the public.
> >
> > The people attending are, from India (Bangalore):
> >
> >   1. Alok Singh (Akshara Foundation)
> >   2. Shivangi Desai (Akshara Foundation)
> >   3. Arun Ganesh (Geohackers / National Institute of Design)
> >   4. A. Pandian (Mapunity)
> >   5. Sridhar Raman (Mapunity)
> >   6. S. Raghavan Kandala (Mapunity)
> >   7. Thejesh GN (Janaagraha / Infosys)
> >   8. Sushant Sinha (IndianKanoon.com / Yahoo)
> >   9. Vijay Rasquinha (Mahiti)
> >  10. P.G. Bhat (SmartVote.in)
> >  11. Pranesh Prakash (CIS)
> >  12. Raman Jit Singh Chima (Google)
> >
> >
> > And from Britain:
> >
> >   1. David McCandless (Information Is Beautiful)
> >   2. Harry Metcalfe (TellThemWhatYouThink.org / Open Rights Group)
> >   3. Tim Green (Democracy Club)
> >   4. Edmund von der Burg (YourNextMP)
> >   5. Rohan Silva (Special Adviser to the PM)
> >
> > --
> > Pranesh Prakash
> > Programme Manager
> > Centre for Internet and Society
> > W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
> >
> >
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