learning-resources.md

Learning Resources

What is Civic Hacking

• What is Civic Tech?
• Civic Hacking 101

How to Get Involved with Open Source

• How to Contribute
• First Timers Only
• Getting Involved in Open Source Projects
• 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star

What Projects Others Have Worked on

• Technology Science : A journal with original material dealing primarily with a social, political, personal, or organizational benefit or adverse consequence of technology

• Data Science to Save the World This is the course website for a Harvard's Data Privacy Lab course where students use scientific research and create and use technology to assess and solve real-world societal, political and governance problems.

• How we built an app that uses worker location history to combat wage theft: This is a Medium post about the project that Hack4Impact worked on with the Community Legal Services of Philadelphia. The app processes millions of Google Location data points into a CSV Files based on "bounding boxes" (i.e. ranges of time within regions of interest). The project is intended for use in worker dispute cases.