The rise of "civic hacking"
People have been claiming to "hack" different parts of our lives for a good part of the past decade. We've got growth hacking, life hacking, food hacking, fitness hacking, and, of course, good old regular hacking. So, when you hear the term "civic hacking" you might be turned off, as I was at first. But dig a little deeper and you'll see that there's much more to "civic hacking" than you'd suspect.
When we started this series we explored how civic technologists are reforming government technology from the inside. Next, we looked at how many of the biggest companies out there are unintentionally becoming part of a civic tech movement that will power our cities in the future. Today, let’s look at what happens when industrious citizens insert themselves into the civic technology cycle with intention from the outset.
Here’s the idealized civic tech ecosystem that we mapped out last week:
