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Hack D.C.: Hackers Put Open Data to Use to Help Improve Local Government:

dcist.com on 03/05/2013

Excerpt: In an auditorium at the World Bank on a Saturday in late February, groups of computer hackers huddled over their computers, intently pouring through thousands of lines of code and massive amounts of raw data. No, they weren't launching a denial of service attack against a government agency or engaging in industrial espionage, but rather putting their collective coding abilities to use for the greater good as part of the International Open Data Hackathon. At similar events across the globe, developers and coders—known more simply, though not pejoratively, as "hackers"—identified problems and used their computer know-how and stacks of open data to devise clever solutions.... read the full post.
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