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  18     <h1>NUUGs plan for Civic Hacking</h1>
  19
  20     <p>Ideas for Civic Hacking in Norway</p>
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  22     <div class="presenter">Petter Reinholdtsen
  23       <br>pere@hungry.com
  24       <br>Norwegian Unix User Group
  25       <br>OSDC, 2015-05-09</div>
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  27     <h2>What to expect</h2>
  28
  29     <ul>
  30       <li>Why Civic Hacking?
  31       <li>Never heard of NUUG?
  32       <li>Some completed projects
  33       <li>Some planned projects
  34       <li>Some project ideas
  35     </ul>
  36
  37     <h2>Why Civic Hacking</h2>
  38
  39     <img align="right" width="30%" src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png" ALT="XKCD: Someone is wrong on the Internet"/>
  40
  41     <p>"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
  42       citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that
  43       ever has."
  44       <br>- <a href="https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071122082636AA50JA9">Margaret Mead</a></p>
  45
  46     <h2>Never heard of Norwegian Unix User Group / NUUG?</h2>
  47
  48     <ul>
  49
  50       <li>Member association consisting of around 300 people.</li>
  51
  52       <li>For us believing free software, open standards and UNIX-like
  53         operating systems are important.</li>
  54
  55       <li>Funded in 1984 to help members get access to email.</li>
  56
  57       <li>Social and professional events.</li>
  58
  59       <li>Hope to affect public policy and improve society.</li>
  60
  61       <li>While having fun.</li>
  62
  63       <li>Cooperate with Holder de ord, Frikanalen and others.</li>
  64
  65       <li>NUUG have the skills and equipment to have an impact.</li>
  66
  67     </ul>
  68
  69     <h2>FiksGataMi</h2>
  70
  71     <ul>
  72
  73       <li>Help the government to fix public infrastructure.</li>
  74
  75       <li>Citizens service and focus.</li>
  76
  77       <li>Announced in 2011.</li>
  78
  79       <li>Based on FixMyStreet from mySociety.</li>
  80
  81     </ul>
  82
  83     <h2>Mimes brønn / Mimes well</h2>
  84
  85     <ul>
  86
  87       <li>Help citizens learn what the government know.</li>
  88
  89       <li>Help the government save time by only providing information once.</li>
  90
  91       <li>Covered in separate talk.</li>
  92
  93       <li>Based on Alaveteli from mySociety.</li>
  94
  95     </ul>
  96
  97     <h2>What is needed</h2>
  98
  99     <ul>
 100
 101       <li>Keeping an eye on the government, the press and the
 102         corporations.</li>
 103
 104       <li>Open data and data analysis.</li>
 105
 106       <li>Downloadable raw data and Web API access.</li>
 107
 108       <li>RSS sources.</li>
 109
 110       <li>Free and open content license (preferrably something like
 111         <a href="http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/">PDDL</a> or
 112         <a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/">CC0</a>).</li>
 113
 114     </ul>
 115
 116     <h2>Services needed</h2>
 117
 118     <ul>
 119
 120       <li>Locate, track and archive all Norwegian work in the public
 121         domain (using RDF?).</li>
 122
 123       <li>Election handout archive,
 124         <a href="https://electionleaflets.org/">https://electionleaflets.org/</a></li>
 125
 126       <li>Central archive of government mail journals.</li>
 127
 128       <li>Historic parliament records (current ones can be found on
 129         <a href="http://data.stortinget.no/">http://data.stortinget.no/</a>).</li>
 130
 131       <li>Election candidate archive, [<a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2014/12/12/mysociety-endorses-yournextmp-lets-pull-together-to-make-a-free-trustworthy-open-database-of-general-election-candidates/">mysociety</a>, <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/krd/kampanjer/valg/navn-pa-alle-valglister-og-kandidater-ti/valglister-og-kandidater-2011.html">NO gov</a>].</li>
 132
 133       <li>Party funding data.</li>
 134
 135       <li>Government budget and accounting data.</li>
 136
 137       <li>Parliament video archive.</li>
 138
 139     </ul>
 140
 141     <h2>References</h2>
 142
 143     <ul>
 144
 145       <li>http://www.nuug.no/</li>
 146       <li>http://www.fiksgatami.no/</li>
 147       <li>http://www.mysociety.org/</li>
 148       <li>http://www.holderdeord.no/</li>
 149       <li>Mapping Hacks by Schyler Erle</li>
 150
 151     </ul>
 152
 153     <h2>Thank you</h2>
 154
 155     <h3>Questions?</h3>
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