by Jim March | Jan 2, 2020 | Civic Tech, community nights, criminal justice, events, featured project, National Day of Civic Hacking, open data, police data, policy, reentry
Here are some of the projects in the plans for 2020: Open Buncombe – Continue to work with Buncombe County towards adoption of an open data policyGrowing Our Information Commons – Continue to support Buncombe County Libraries with tech-savvy...
by Jim March | Jul 18, 2019 | Civic Tech, community nights, open data, policy
At the July Community Night, we continued our work to advocate for an open data policy for Buncombe County. We’ve created a draft policy, a logo, and a web page for the campaign, and we’re ready to start spreading the word about this important effort! ...
by Jim March | Jan 17, 2019 | Civic Tech, community nights, criminal justice, events, hackathon, leadership, National Day of Civic Hacking, Newsletter, open data, People, police data, policy, reentry, State of Black Asheville
Highlights by Month JANUARY: We supported the Transportation for Seniors Hackathon.FEBRUARY: We learned about ourselves by working on our website. It was a fun and engaging meeting, our best for the year, during which everyone participated. Through our discussion, we...
by Eric Jackson | May 2, 2017 | criminal justice, Newsletter, open data, policy
Core team member & former co-captain Patrick Conant has been working with Ian Mance, an attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), and Dee Williams, chair of the criminal justice committee of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP, to investigate...
by Eric Jackson | Feb 27, 2017 | events, open data, policy
Come join us for Open Data Day on Saturday, March 4, 2017, 10am – 2pm at the Shiloh Recreation Center. Check out the agenda here!
by Eric Jackson | Dec 8, 2016 | policy
Working in the civic space on stuff that matters inevitably and rightfully means dealing with issues that are politically charged. With that in mind, we felt it important to clarify Code for Asheville’s relationship to such issues. The statement below is our...
