Are you frustrated with politics? Do you want to convert that into action? Do you have a background in technology, business, startup investing, policy, or education? Here's your chance!
Our country is deeply divided and our democratic system is broken. Corruption, unaccountability, and polarization plague our government. Citizens feel unheard and disempowered. We’re frustrated and we refuse to stand by while things get even worse.
The Reboot Democracy Hackathon is a non-partisan call to acti...
Are you frustrated with politics? Do you want to convert that into action? Do you have a background in technology, business, startup investing, policy, or education? Here's your chance!
Our country is deeply divided and our democratic system is broken. Corruption, unaccountability, and polarization plague our government. Citizens feel unheard and disempowered. We’re frustrated and we refuse to stand by while things get even worse.
The Reboot Democracy Hackathon is a non-partisan call to action for people inspired to use technology to build scalable tools that increase citizen participation in government and transform our political system into one that is truly representative and responsive to its citizens.
The hackathon will be split into teams focused on building solutions around two primary issues:
1. Increasing voter engagement
2. Improving citizen education
The hackathon will be hosted at 500 Startups' offices at 814 Mission Street in San Francisco and it will be held from 7pm on Friday, December 9th and will end at 4pm on Sunday, December 11th. The hackathon will gather engineers, business people, policy/legal experts, and investors to develop innovative solutions to reboot our democracy. There will be a cash prize for the winning team in each category and both for-profit as well as non-profit ventures are welcome.
UPDATE: To sign up for the hackathon please register on our eventbrite page. Apologies for asking you to apply in multiple places, but we're using eventbrite to track participants so please take one minute and register here: https://rebootdemocracy.eventbrite.com Thanks!
Schedule:
Friday, Dec 9th @ 7pm - Meet N' Greet + Happy Hour: form teams of 4-6 people and brainstorm solution ideas
Saturday, Dec 10th from 9am-8pm: Hack hack hack (healthy meals and snacks for participants provided)
Sunday, Dec 11th from 8am-2pm: More hacking
Sunday, Dec 11th from 2pm-4pm: Pitch off to panel of judges
CONFIRMED JUDGES:
- Keith Rabois, Senior Partner, Khosla Ventures, early investor in YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Eventbrite, Lyft, Quora, Mixpanel, Yammer and early employee at PayPal, LinkedIn, and Square
- Debra Cleaver, founder of Vote.org (YC S16) and former product manager at Change.org and TrueCar
- Hillary Hartley, Deputy Executive Director of 18F which creates technology solutions for government agencies
- Gayle Karen Young, Chief Talent and Culture Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation
- Scott Wiener, California State Senator elect representing District 11 (San Francisco and San Mateo), member of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco
- Mike Dinsdale, current CFO of DoorDash and former CFO of DocuSign where he helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars from VCs, angel investor
Please share this event widely, we will cap participation at 150 and will take the most qualified applicants. All participants are encouraged to register via this Eventbrite so we can plan for food and drinks: https://rebootdemocracy.eventbrite.com