Tiffany St James

National Hack the Goverment Day??

What?! I hear you cry, what about the security of our information? Well, read on..

Over 80 benevolent hackers* gathered to play at The Guardian’s media suite with public sector data for one day only to see what useful, interesting and downright provactive services and sites they could create.

At the end of the day 29 complete hacks were presented in two minute pitches to all geeks present, Press, government and Guardian team. The quality, completeness, speed and usefulness of their hacks was astounding. View the individual projects here and the pitch footage here.

What I found most interesting was Government, Guardian and 4iP commitment to offering funding, development platforms and commitment to making this an annual event, after all the purpose of the day was to demostate what could be done in the day by creative minds having access to the data and hoping government would take notice.

See www.emmamulqueeny.com for more details.

*Hackers in this context means friendly developers