NUUGs plan for Civic Hacking

Ideas for Civic Hacking in Norway

What to expect

• Why Civic Hacking?
• Never heard of NUUG?
• Some completed projects
• Some planned projects
• Some project ideas

Why Civic Hacking

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

Never heard of Norwegian Unix User Group / NUUG?

• Member association consisting of around 300 people.
• For us believing free software, open standards and UNIX-like operating systems are important.
• Funded in 1984 to help members get access to email.
• Social and professional events.
• Hope to affect public policy and improve society.
• While having fun.
• Cooperate with Holder de ord, Frikanalen and others.
• NUUG have the skills and equipment to have an impact.

FiksGataMi

• Help the government to fix public infrastructure.
• Citizens service and focus.
• Announced in 2011.
• Based on FixMyStreet from mySociety.

Mimes brønn / Mimes well

• Help citizens learn what the government know.
• Help the government save time by only providing information once.
• Covered in separate talk.
• Based on Alaveteli from mySociety.

What is needed

• Keeping an eye on the government, the press and the corporations.
• Open data and data analysis.
• Downloadable raw data and Web API access.
• RSS sources.
• Free and open content license (preferrably something like PDDL or CC0).

Services needed

• Locate, track and archive all Norwegian work in the public domain (using RDF?).
• Election handout archive, https://electionleaflets.org/
• Central archive of government mail journals.
• Historic parliament records (current ones can be found on http://data.stortinget.no/).
• Election candidate archive, [mysociety, NO gov].
• Party funding data.
• Government budget and accounting data.
• Parliament video archive.

References

• http://www.nuug.no/
• http://www.fiksgatami.no/
• http://www.mysociety.org/
• http://www.holderdeord.no/
• Mapping Hacks by Schyler Erle

Thank you

Questions?

http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/2015-nuug-civic-hacking.html