civic-hacking
Intelligence and automation for newsrooms On April 18 and 19, we had the opportunity to attend an event sponsored by the Mozilla Foundation and the Knight Foundation: The Open News 2016 Code Convening in Austin, TX. This initiative consists of creating Open Source Software solutions for journalism teams. The teams...
I thought of checking what comes up when I type my name in Google and I found my name in a magazine: Avianca en Revista. A magazine distributed on flights of the airline between several South American countries such as: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico,...
Today we presented Datamx at the Innovation in Transparency Award 2015, where we were awarded first place in the category of Individuals and Civil Associations. It was an honor to share part of the experience we learned in about 2 years of work, and we wanted to emphasize telling the...
In May 2013 we announced the launch of the civic open data platform in the country. Our goals were for it to become an autonomous space for publishing and consuming data, independent of any government or organization, and to be a ready-to-use tool for institutions with good intentions to open...
Just a few days ago, AbreLATAM 2014 took place, on September 30th of this year. We had already had the opportunity to participate in the event that happened in Uruguay in 2013. This year, 9 out of 10 people from the Codeando México team were present to collaborate. AbreLATAM 2014...
A couple of years ago, while taking a Web Development course in college, I had the freedom to choose which programming language and tools I wanted to learn web programming with. The only restriction we had was to make an application that met all the principles we had been learning...