On 25-27 November 2017, our Project in cooperation with the Prague Civil Society Centre organised the first EaP Civil Society Hackathon – CitizenLab 2017 Hackathon in Kyiv, Ukraine.
33 young civil society activists, designers and IT experts from 11 countries (6 EaP countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – plus Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) gathered in Kyiv for a three-day immersive exercise to develop their ideas of civic projects and create prototype tools and applications to empower digital participation of citizens in the decision-making process.
Check the videos with the presentations of our key mentors and trainers:
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Open source investigation / Christiaan Triebert, Belling Cat Star Journalist and Investigator, UK
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Open Budget project / Volodymyr Tarnay, Head of the Project, the EIDOS Center for Political Studies and Analysis, Ukraine
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Data Visualization / Maya Stravinskaya, Data Journalist, Journalist from Kommersant.ru & Snob.ru
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Data Collection / Anton Perkin, Founder of DeveloperMD community & GeneratorHub co-working space & community for IT start-ups in Chisinau, Moldova
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Use of photo and video-storytelling / Sergey Karpov, trainer at Hackathons, Visual Storytelling Photo and Video Use
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Use of new tools: sensors, drones and cameras / Oleg Pushak, drone activist and anti-corruption activist, activist of All-Ukrainian Union “Automaidan”
Three days of intensive international collaboration on research, data collection and design culminated in development of 11 prototypes of web interfaces, portals, interactive maps, bots and mobile applications on a wide range of topics including segregated waste collection and disposal, air pollution monitoring, development of public spaces, police monitoring, territorial planning and mapping, participatory budgets, sex education for teenagers etc.