Now in it’s fifth year, Accountability Hack is a two day event bringing together the UK’s civic tech community to connect people with Parliament and democracy. We also want to improve accountability and public sector data.
For the first time, we're also running a pre-event session to get to know the other participants and start discussing ideas.
Interested in how Parliament works; how public sector expenditure is audited; or the key statistics generated by the public sector? Then come to #AccHack15.
So are you an armchair auditor? Keen on Parliamentary processes? Use lots of public sector data? Then this is the event for you. With the added bonus of staying in NAO building overnight, if you want.
There event will form part of Parliament Week. As last year we will aim to run a follow up event during office hours to show people who could not make the weekend Show and Tell what happened.
Accountability Hack is an annual, two day event bringing together the civic tech community in the UK. Developers are given the challenge to use parliamentary data to ideate new and innovative ways in which the people can become involved in the democratic process. The event is also an opportunity to get political support and buy in, and ultimately aims to produce projects that will hold our elected more accountable.
In this context, hacking means building apps, websites and services really quickly to prove the value in an idea. Nothing malicious, nothing illegal.
You don’t need a team to take part; it’s perfectly acceptable to create a solo project. However, at the pre-event session and the event itself, there will be opportunities to share ideas and connect with your fellow developers to form a team. As organisers, we’ll do our best to encourage and facilitate teamwork across the weekend.
Yes, anyone aged 14 and over is welcome to come to Accountability Hack. However, if you are aged under 18 you will not be allowed to stay overnight. The day’s events will wrap up at 8pm on Saturday, with all under 18s welcome back in the morning for breakfast and more hacking.
No, it is not a requisite to stay over - the day’s events will officially wrap up around 8pm, at which point all under 18s will leave. However, if you are over 18 you are welcome to stay until later. The hack will kick off again on Sunday at 8am with breakfast.
All food across the weekend will be provided. That is: breakfast and lunch on Saturday and Sunday, as well as dinner on Saturday evening. Breakfast will be continental, and Saturday dinner will be burritos. All dietary requirements will be considered and catered for - please make sure you provide this information upon registering.
All IP generated at Accountability Hack belongs to the developer. However, to generate the widest benefit from this event, we encourage developers to provide Open Source licenses for the results of their creativity.
While you can explore ideas before the Accountability Hack weekend and produce designs, you cannot write a line of code for your project before the event itself.
All participants will need to bring their laptop, charger(s) and any other devices they wish to work on. If you are staying overnight, you will also need to bring a sleeping bag.
Open data is any data which is freely available with a license which allows reuse and redistribution. Please respect attribution requirements.
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The UK Parliament are one of the three main partners running this event.
The National Audit Office are once again providing their lovely venue and technical expertise.
Office for National Statistics is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
Rebel Uncut are a digital agency who are providing their experience in running hackathons to ensure the event is successful.
MMT Digital have very kindly provided some awesome prizes for the event's category winners.
Kontakt have provided some of their iBeacon/Eddystone beacon dev kits as prizes.
Estimote have also provided some of their iBeacon beacon dev kits as prizes.
Amazon have provided $100 of free credit for participants of this hackathon. More imformation during the event.
All data currently published by Parliament.
Government spending and purchasing data.
Access all 2011 census data tables.
Consumer price indices through the ONS OpenAPI.
Divisions service from Parliament’s Digiminster team.
Data derived from quarterly returns and the first annual forecast figures from local authorities.
Membership estimates from the Occupational Pension Schemes Survey (OPSS).
Collated government data relating to companies.
Over 900 datasets on government spending.
A complete list of UK MPs sitting in the previous Parliament.
OSCAR is the cross-government public spending database containing a record of all public spending transactions.
node.js library to get info on Bills from the UK Parliament site.
Community feedback for parliament.uk
The GitHub Org for the UK Parliament.
Get activity, size and location information through the ONS OpenAPI.
Who is responsible for what in government?
Who is responsible for what in government?
Including HTML versions of the metadata that the NAO hold about the datasets
Who is responsible for what in government?
Who is responsible for what in government?
Including health, postal and environmental data.
EOT is an Office of National Statistics project to automate conversion from spreadsheets to datasets.
A tool to convert PDF tables to Excel.
(xlsx file) All UK-based opportunities, listed as open on the TED website as of 28/09/2015.
All data currently available from the UK government.
NAO visualisation of whole government accounts.
NAO visualisation of the financial institutions landscape.
A list of major projects in government.
Over 5,000 publications of transparency spend data around government spending.
This collection brings together all documents relating to HMT Treasury minutes released between 2010 to 2015.
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