Name: 【TED】Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens (Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens)
Uploaded: 2014-12-25T08:13:41.000Z
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but I'm going to explain to you why it should be.

sitting in a basement doing something mischievous,

or of a shady criminal who is
trying to steal your identity,

And mainstream culture has kind of fed this idea

that hackers are people that we should be afraid of.

hacking has equal power for good as it has for evil.

For every hacker that's trying to steal your identity

that will help you find your
loved ones after a disaster

Hacking is really just any amateur innovation

It's about questioning existing ways of doing things.

It's the idea that if you see a 
problem, you work to fix it,

And in many ways, hacking is what built America.

The Underground Railroad was a brilliant hack.

And from the Wright brothers to Steve Jobs,

hacking has always been at the foundation

So if there's one thing I want
to leave you here with today,

it's that the next time you
think about who a hacker is,

who was one of the greatest hackers of all time.

He was one of America's most prolific inventors,

because he thought that all human knowledge

He brought us bifocals and the lightning rod,

and of course there was his collaboration

And in Code For America, we really try to embody

He believed that government could be built

are the same values that underly the Internet.

And so it's no surprise that many hackers

are turning their attention to
the problem of government.

You just have to believe that you can bring

And we hear all the time from our community

that they didn't understand
how much nontechnical work

actually went into civic hacking projects.

which in this case was three full-time fellows

were asked by the city to rebuild the website.

And it's a massive thing of
tens of thousands of pages

So instead, they decided to build a parallel site

that better conformed to how citizens actually

want to interact with information on a city website.

They're looking for answers to questions,

and they want to take action when they're done,

where you enter a search term or a question

Now the site itself was easy enough to build,

but the team was faced with the challenge

especially given that none of 
them are actually from Honolulu.

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【TED】Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens (Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens)

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