The Puerto Rico Cuenta Hackathon promotes the design, development and prototyping of new technologies that connect the communities of Puerto Rico using data, API's and CitySDK of the US Census Bureau. A principal purpose of the census is to collect data that is then compiled into agregate statistiscs avalilable to the public.  These satistics allow for insight available at census.gov  Developers can use for example data available from APIs on Economic Census, County Business Patterns, Decennial Census, Population Estimates, and the Planning Database.

Another example is the American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates which represent a wide variety of social, economic, housing, and demographic characteristics updated annually  The ACS Information Guide [English | Spanish] is a helpful resource for learning more about the survey.

A streamlined starting point begins with the US CitySDK. This toolbox for civic innovators has been optimized into a user-friendly javascript Software Development Kit for US Census Bureau data, including simple integrations to facilitate mash-up of other open datasets.

The data sets are rich of valuable information that can be applied to Puerto Rico to address issues within economic, social, business, art, emergency management Education and many other fields.  We would like to see creativity during your exploration of resources and data discovery, and inspired teamwork to connect communities with technology created by you and your team.  We encourage all projects to consider local Puerto Rico geographies, at all levels seeking valuable tie ins. Feel free to use any programming language.

Some examples of previous hacks:

Austin Equity Parks: A visualization approach to increase equitable park access by using user-friendly maps to show how Austin’s park resources are distributed throughout the City of Austin. The application uses data from the US Census Bureau and City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department. https://www.challenge.gov/solution/austin-park-equity/

Disabled Accessibility Score: An application that aims to help people with disabilities to easily find a place to live or travel in the state of Minnesota and satisfies the specific accessibility needs of this population grouphttps://www.challenge.gov/…/accessible-places-finderscorin…/

CivicSpaces: An AirBnb meets Yelp open source solution for civic tech leaders and entrepreneurs to easily find free or low-cost spaces in their local communities to meet, teach, and innovate.
HyperLocal: An app to leverage real time Twitter feeds and neighborhood boundary data to help Food Truck operators without a lottery parking spot find customers by locating people tweetinghttp://www.challenge.gov/solution/techspacescivicspark/

Purshable: A mobile app that will help reduce waste, increase grocer’s profit, and offer the shopper high quality food at a fraction of the costhttps://www.challenge.gov/…/purshable-a-mobile-app-tacklin…/

• 8:00 – 9:00 AM Registration / Breakfast
• 9:00 – 9:15 AM Oficial Welcome
• 10:15 – 10:30 AM On Your Mark, Get Set…
• 10:30 – 11:00 AM Snackathon (break for refreshments) and teams form
• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Hacking Begins
• 12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch
• 1:30 – 5:30 PM Hacking Continues
• 5:00 -6:30 PM Break for Dinner
• 6:30-10:50PM Hackathon continues
• 10:50-11:00PM Closing Remarks Day 1

• 8:00 – 9:00 AM Welcome Back and Breakfast
• 9:00 AM – 9:10 AM Announcements
• 9:10 AM – 12:00 PM Hacking Continues
• 12:00 – 1:00 PM Working Lunch
• 1:00 – 2:00 PM Time to Wrap the Hack
• 2:00 – 5:00 PM Demo Presentation
• 5:00 – 5:30 PM Judging and Winners Announced
• 5:30 – 6:00 PM Final Thoughts and Thank You!!

This Hackathon is managed via Eventbright.  Please click here to register.  Remember all teams need to be as well registered in Challenge Post for official participation.

• Innovation 5pts
  We are looking for something new. Be creative!
• Ease of Implementation 5pts
  How is easy is it to deploy within the community.
• Community Impact 5pts
  Be the connector of communities in Puerto Rico.
• Social Impact 5pts
  Think about economic development and or economic impact of your applicaiton
• Pitch/Presentation 5pts
  Make it interesting catch our eye and show us a working product.
• Judging
  Judges will give points per criteria up to 5 pts per category. The hack with the highest point value will win first prize.