Diplohack Athens: Opening Europe’s “black box”

Name: Diplohack Athens: Opening Europe’s “black box”
Start: 2016-04-08T15:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-04-10T20:00:00.000Z

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The Netherlands Embassy in Athens and Impact Hub Athens organize for the first time in Greece a hackathon aiming to generate new ideas regarding transparency in Europe, on April 8-10, in Orange Grove.

Researchers, diplomats, developers, journalists, social entrepreneurs, designers and active citizens will join forces. Within a weekend, they will try to develop new business ideas, services and tools to the benefit of a more accessible and open European decision-making for all.

Diplohack Athens is part of a series of hackathons organized all around Europe in the context of the Netherlands’ EU Presidency during the first semester of 2016, in response to a call by Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders. He had challenged EU citizens to “shine light in the black box of Brussels”. With support of the Embassy of Ireland in Greece, the Netherlands Embassy cooperates with Impact Hub Athens to bring together creative minds, active citizens and experts in a co-creation workshop in order to produce and prototype innovative initiatives in the fields of open data and transparency.

Open data has the potential to unleash innovation and transform every sector of the economy and society. Active citizens can play a critical role in ensuring that stakeholders capture the full value of information.In the context of current European developments, participatory and co-creative processes may become catalysts for ideas tackling the challenging issues we face. How can we use open data in order to enable value creation, manage risks and engage key stakeholders? How can we make EU decision making more transparent? Join us and win a trip to the first ever European Transparency Camp in Amsterdam!