Problems have solutions. We're here to learn about them from regular people creating change in their communities using data and technology. Each season of the Civic Hacker Podcast includes audio from the Civic Hacker Summit and news from the Civic Hacker Network. The Civic Hacker Podcast © 2023 by Lori McNeill is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 5 hours 10 minutes
episode 8: Using Crowdsourced Data to Spread Good Karma
Today’s episode features the founder of Karmalize, the world's first and only online directory of socially responsible businesses, searchable by social cause, and completely crowdsourced from people who care about making a better future. After a 30+ year career in the consulting, technology, and software industries, today’s guest, Rich Yap, turned in a corporate career for a different mission: to help people spread good karma by supporting socially responsible businesses...
episode 7: Q&A With the U.S. Census Bureau
The U.S. Census Bureau open data is a key ingredient in important civic tech projects and policy advocacy work. In this episode we get to hear directly from a Census Bureau expert, Lia Bolden, as she answers questions from the Civic Hacker Network members and demystifies the new data being released after the 2020 census...
episode 6: Identity, Inclusion, and Inspiration
In this episode, you will listen to Matt Scott who leads storytelling at Project Drawdown which is the world’s leading climate solutions resource project. Matt is also the creator of inclusive impact storytelling project Let's Care, and the film 20’s and Change: San Francisco. He shares with us his expertise and exclusive knowledge that he has learned throughout his career in the digital space...
episode 5: Hacking Communication to Prevent Identity-Based Violence
Today we speak with Rachel Brown who is the Founder and Executive Director of Over Zero, an organization that merges research and practice to prevent identity-based violence and other forms of group-targeted harm. She shares with us how communication can be a weapon for identity based violence, and how Over Zero aims to counteract this harmful communication. Rachel also provides many strategies and resources that you can implement in your own life to combat hateful speech...
episode 4: Turning Stories Into Data for Change
In today’s episode we get the opportunity to hear from Alexandra Pittman who is the founder and CEO of ImpactMapper and HERO Index. She shares with us how ImpactMapper facilitates change measurement for a variety of organizations by helping them to understand and effectively use both qualitative and quantitative data to support social causes in areas like gender equality, human rights and more.
Link To Alexandra's Summit Page: https://civichackersummit...
episode 3: Hacking DEI in Tech
In today's episode we hear from Hugo Seureau who is the CEO and co-founder of Essteem. We learn about their unique approach to hackathons that led to the invention of the “Equalithon”, as well as their mission; to connect people, start-ups, nonprofits and a variety of companies in the technology industry with the goal of improving business performance while simultaneously implementing specific strategies and tools that increase equality and inclusion within each workforce...
episode 2: Art, Code, and Black Data Stories
In today's episode we speak with Anthony Starks, an independent developer and designer interested in data visualization, combining Art+Code and building open-sourced tools such SVGo (SVG generation), deck/decksh, and dchart. He gives us empowering information on the ways that we can use data as a tool for advocacy, and advice and examples for those of you that are interested in building your own data tools and visualizations...
episode 1: Data Literacy, Black History, and You
Today’s conversation is with Allen Hillery who is the Co-Founder of Be Data Lit, a platform that promotes education for data literacy advocates, and a co-creator of the surprise data visualization sensation, the “DuBois Challenge”. He takes us behind the scenes of the challenge and leaves us with the clear message that data literacy is for everyone.
Link to Allen's Summit Page: https://civichackersummit...
episode 8: Combating Human Trafficking with Powerful Data Tools
This episode is being released in January, which is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, so we are featuring a conversation from the original Civic Hacker Summit that focused on innovative tools designed to help law enforcement build cases against trafficking rings using data gleaned from the web...
episode 7: [BONUS EPISODE] Impact Blockers: 4 Mistakes Standing Between You & the Change You Want to See
We recently hosted a webinar titled, “Impact Blockers: 4 mistakes standing between you and the change you want to see”. This BONUS EPISODE features the audio from that webinar.
If questions about the impact of your work make you feel like a deer stuck in headlights, you're not alone. So many people working to create change in their community aren't sure about whether or not they're getting the outcomes they want, at the scale that's needed...