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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

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I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. Not so in Oakland. Mai-ling Garcia, the city of Oakland's online engagement manager, put it succinctly: "We're not here to build applications for you, we're here to build applications with you.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

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Reporting Problems. The THC app , created by Hunaid Hussain, enables tenants and staff to report landlord violations in single resident occupancy (SRO) hotels and apartment buildings. The last app demo was from a former TechSouper, Sameer Siruguri, who is currently developing an app for an Oakland nonprofit, Youth ALIVE!