White House Announces "National Day of Civic Hacking"

The White House blog is hosting a post that designates June 1-2 for a National Day of Civic Hacking. GO Over the past decade, mobile tech has grown into a dominant force in journalism, activism, and revolution across the globe. Yet one organization is going lo-tech to get information in the hands of the people – by transforming basic cellular phones into e-readers loaded with news that might be otherwise censored by the government. GO When a record-breaking flooding event struck the eastern states of Australia in December and January of 2010-2011, Twitter users took to their

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    RT @pdmteam: White House Announces "National Day of Civic Hacking" | @TechPresident : http://t.co/EMkaWP1s @whitehouse

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    White House Announces "National Day of Civic Hacking" | @TechPresident : http://t.co/puRYPNCC @whitehouse

  3. Nick Judd

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    Hey look, a "National Day of Civic Hacking." http://t.co/vkxYxN36

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    RT @pdmteam: White House Announces "National Day of Civic Hacking" | @TechPresident : http://t.co/EMkaWP1s @whitehouse

  5. Mark Headd

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    RT @rcheetham: National Day of Civic Hacking will coincide with Random Hacks in early June http://t.co/EEqiQc31 via @TechPresident #RHoK



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