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Welcome to the Access the Data (AtD) wiki, your one stop shop to everything about this project.

Access the Data is a data catalog being built by volunteers at Hack for LA. It can be difficult to track down all of the data you need to advocate for your community, but with Access the Data, any municipality can set up their own data catalog where their communities can curate their own collection of local, open-government data. With this resource it will be easier for communities to understand how government decisions and policies are made on a local level and have the tools they need to participate in that process.

Find out how to contribute here!

Mission & Vision

Mission:
Connect People to Policy with Open Data

Vision:
Access the Data is a tool that any municipality can adopt to make it easy for citizens to find, navigate, and understand local government data.

Project Context

Access the Data (AtD) is one of a series of products being created by Hack for LA, a child organization of Civic Tech Structure. These products are part of Hack for LA's Citizen Engagement Program Area Initiative. Each product at Hack for LA focuses on one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals as set by the United Nations.

Hack for LAs infrastructure within Civic Tech Structure.

AtD is supporting target 16.8:

About Us

We are a team of researchers, designers, software engineers, and project managers volunteering at Hack for LA. As volunteers of Hack for LA, we have committed ourselves to improving our community and ourselves through product exploration and teamwork. Find us on the Our Team page!

Contact Us

To reach our team with questions or comments, you can slack us on the #access-the-data channel on the Hack for LA Slack or email accessthedata@hackforla.org.