1. powerless, lost in the crowd, politically numb

2. “ There are only two certainties in life: death and taxes” - Benjamin Franklin

3. Hacking tax forms

12. What we do

13. Events: Theme based hackdays

14. “ A barcamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment . It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event.”

15. The application building track

20. Data driven news

21. Data driven news

23. Newspaper club

24. Political Process focused projects

25. Political Process focused projects

26. Data visualization helps explain complex systems

27. Travel times, property prices

28. National data catalogs

29. National data catalog NL in production

30. Go linked data, go open data!

31. 43 apps submitted

32. Reaching new sub-geek communities

33. Apps for Space

34. School of data journalism

35. Closing thoughts

38. Participatory Budgeting is an apolitical, non-ideological instrument of participatory governance

39. Rise of crypto-currencies

41. Credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/sharkbait/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/knolleary_papercamp http://www.flickr.com/photos/scraplab/4016849260/ http://www.geekologie.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/daleremote http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ Contact Who: JAMES BURKE Site : www.hackdeoverheid.nl Twitter : @hackdeoverheid Site : www.lifesized.net Twitter : @lifesized Email: james@hackdeoverheid.nl THANKS