Overview

The Civic Engagement Launchpad is a month-long, project-launching “sprint” focused on improving democratic systems and creating tools for greater civic engagement. Multi-disciplinary teams work on projects that are public-minded, open source, and not-for-profit.

Evolving from weekend hackathons, launchpads provide the resources, setting, and framework for teams and individuals who want to make a lasting positive impact. Project teams have a chance to bond, collaborate, work…

Code for Philly's "Launchpad" is a multi-event hackathon over the course of a month for project teams of multi-disciplinary volunteers to form and collaborate with community stakeholders and subject matter experts alike. Projects will investigate opportunities for civic progress and prototype new solutions using user-centered design, open data, and open source technology - known as Civic Tech.

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What the hack?

Code for Philly, DataPhilly, R Ladies Philly, the Philly Data Jawn, Health Federation of Philadelphia, and Prevention Point are hosting a data science hackathon to answer pertinent questions around the Opioid Crisis in Philadelphia. The goals of this event are to provide health organizations with insights that may normally be unavailable to them and to create analyses that help inform the public about the opioid epidemic in our city.

Hackathon planners have been working with our partners to identify and clean relevant datasets that would be helpful in answering these…

About Code for Philly

Code for Philly is a volunteer-operated civic tech nonprofit organization that aligns volunteer technologists with tech projects that better the city of Philadelphia. Read more about our mission here.

We are hosting our 2023 Launchpad to kick off new projects this Spring!

About Launchpad

Code for Philly's "Launchpad" is a multi-event hackathon over the course of a month for project teams of multidisciplinary volunteers to form and collaborate with community stakeholders and subject-matter experts alike….