Civic Champion Cohort

Early Adopter Cities, Promoting Smart Cities Initiatives
Hack Oregon will select 10 early adopter cities to join our international cohort and engage with the CIVIC team over a one year time period. This framework will expand on successful best practices of Hack Oregon and provide cities with first hand experience bringing their own stories to life on the CIVIC platform. Hack Oregon will publicly announce early adopter partnerships with cities during the Demo Day of Portland CIVIC projects at the GCTC Tech Jam (est. audience of 1500).
Partnership Framework
In Person Component
1 day workshop for local leadership (max 50 people)
Learn how to lead a team of volunteers to achieve a goal over a multi-month build cycle
Leveraging tools from the CIVIC platform, build a strategy that is unique to {YOUR CITY} and establish actionable goals for a Hackathon sprint
2 day Hackathon for tech community, which may include:
Deploy new APIs from your local data sources
Explore analytics with CIVIC’s existing APIs
Reproduce visualizations and entire web components with your city’s data
Continued Support
Beyond the Hackathon
Create a plan for continued city engagement to achieve actionable insights and publish interactive applications on the CIVIC platform
Monthly Webinars
Hosted by Executive Director and Founder of Hack Oregon, Cat Nikolovski
Structured discussion surrounding our methodology including building partnerships, recruiting volunteers, establishing themes and delivering results
CIVIC Coach (CC)
Ongoing mentorship from an experienced Hack Oregon volunteer who has worked on CIVIC, understands the challenges surrounding the build cycle and is invested in your cities success to replicate this model
Online Resources
Technical documentation
Process materials
Design Assets
Knowledge Base
Case studies