Council of the European Union - Brussels Diplohack - 29 April for a 24-hour Diplomatic hackathon

 
 
Want to build an application that make European data more transparent and accessible to citizens? We invite journalists, diplomats, students, activists and developers to join us on Friday 29 April for a 24-hour Diplomatic hackathon.
 
Our premises, the Justus Lipsius building, will host this event organised with the Netherlands Presidency of the Council, Open Knowledge Belgium and TransparencyCamp Europe 2016.
 
 Learn all about the event here: http://diplohack.brussels/, ensure your participation by registering at: http://ow.ly/10jG7L and get ready for the Brussels Diplohack!
 
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Want to build an application that enables European citizens to truly understand what is going on in Europe?
Are you interested in European data and want to create new transparency applications on top of this data? Want to make decision-making on a European level searchable and understandable for everyone?
                               
Then join us at Diplohack Brussels. We're inviting everyone to join us, whether you’re a diplomat, developer, designer, citizen, student, journalist or activist. We will connect different profiles together in teams to use European data for good.
                               
The idea is that you create a prototype or MVP with this data in just 24 hours. We will support you in any way possible, explain the data and help you get started.
 
 

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Who can participate?

We will create multi-skilled teams based on the different profiles who are present. We're inviting diplomats, journalists, developers, designers, students, citizens, civil society actors, social entrepreneurs, academics and basically anyone who want to use and re-use public open data to hack diplomatic issues. If you feel this topic appeals to you then you are more than welcome.

The Diplohack

A Diplohack is a hackathon focused on creating synergies between the skill sets of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, such as diplomats, developers, designers, NGOs etc. In this case we will use these collaborative and creative methods to build applications that give citizens more insight and usable information about European decision-making.

The Datad(r)ive

Before the Diplohack starts we will host a webinar together with the EU institutions to talk about the available data and the technical details on 15 April 2016. This webinar is open for everyone and you can ask questions about the data to prepare for Diplohack Brussels. For the webinar, you need to register separately on Eventbrite.

The Data

The Council of the European Union and the EU institutions already have an extensive catalogue of open datasets, which you can use to build your application. These cover many different aspects, including Politics, Law, Transparency and Finance. On the EU Open Data Portal you can see which datasets are already available.
On the EU Open Data Portal you can see the datasets published by the European Union institutions. Similarly, the European Data Portal provides data from all member states as well.
 

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