Presented at the kickoff of Civic Lab Brussels. This first Civic Hack Night took place on Tuesday 25 April 2017.

2. 2 Open Belgium 2017
openbelgium.be

3. Open space for open projects
Presentations
30 min
Action
2 hours
Updates on running projects
Introductions to new projects
Contribute to the open project of your choice
All backgrounds welcome!
Every 2
weeks

4. “
“Open means anyone can freely access,
use, modify, and share for any purpose
(subject, at most, to requirements that
preserve provenance and openness).”
http://opendefinition.org/
In short: Anyone can contribute to and
benefit from the project.

5. Natural tension
between getting
things done vs just
hanging out…
Work on civic
projects
Learn
something
new
Meet
like-minded
people
https://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/2013/07/24/brigade-101-how-to-hack-night/

6. Meetup
Announcements of our biweekly gatherings.
https://www.meetup.com/Civic-Lab-Brussels/
Practicalities
Slack
All communication related to our projects.
http://slack.civiclabs.be/

7. THANKS Other fresh ideas?
You can find me at
@DVRansbeeck
dries@openknowledge.be

9. 4 projects
Let’s get started!

10. 1. Open Food Data
https://github.com/openthings-cc/FarmFood-Interoperability
3. OpenStreetMap Belgium
http://www.osm.be/en/projects/
2. Air Quality Brussels
http://luftdaten.info/feinstaubsensor-bauen/
4. Open Government Spending
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/business/dealbook/steve-ballmer-serves-up-a-fascinating-data-trove.html