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Collaborative development in Labhacker: including the 'external element'

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AutorCristiano Ferri
Páginas192-195

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With about a year and a half of existence, we now have a clear vision of the direction of an innovation lab focused on legislative citizenship. We’re talking about Hacker Laboratory of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, which was created from the conducting of a hackathon aimed at developing projects of transparency and participation in the federal legislative process, which took place in October 2013. The goal was to establish a permanent hackerspace in the House, so that these projects could be continued, as well as encourage the creation of new similar ideas.

Innovation labs in governments

The Labhacker came in the wake of innovation laboratories for citizenship that are emerging in various parts of the world. The MediaLab Prado in Madrid, the GovLab in Chile, the Policy Lab in the UK and the MindLab in Denmark are some good examples, though more based on the work of the Executive. The Labhacker was conceived as a space for interaction that could house any citizen interested in legislative transparency or issues that facilitate interaction with Parliament. Currently, with free Internet and space for free use, hackers, politicians, researchers and others interested in the subject frequent Labhacker.

We know, however, that many of the applications developed on hackers marathons are prototypes, many of them still in a rudimentary stage or non-functional. In general, they are not being continued by their authors.

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And the reason comes from the lack of resources for its realization and implementation dificulties of the initial idea. We think here in Labhacker that we could help in the process of further development of this idea. With small multidisciplinary team, not more than ten people, made up of experts in information technology, project management, administration, law and other areas, we do some work to continue these projects and generate new ones.

For example, in the Hackathon 2013, one group of participants developed an application called Parliamentary Rhetoric, with innovative proposal of preview of the most trending topics in parliamentary speeches in the form of soap bubbles. As the project’s code is open, the staff here in the Labhacker made some improvements in it, changed the layout, included more databases and released a new version more functional.

And the social, where does it enter?

Now, our main dificulty is to include the "external element" in Labhacker work processes. We believe, of...

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