Civic Hackathon - Building the First Police Accountability Platform

Raheem AIis an award-winning nonprofit sponsored by My Brother's Keeper Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foundation, leveraging technology to build a world free of police violence.We're increasing police transparency and accountability by eliminating the barriers to reporting police conduct and delivering a secure, anonymous, and easy way to report police interactions.

Raheem AI

Overview
<A HREF="http://www.raheem.ai" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Raheem Ai" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Raheem Ai</A> works to increase police accountability through designing a chatbot that lets you anonymously track and rate your experience with police officers — positive and negative. An interactive dashboard will tell the story of these accounts, tracking police experiences through stunning data visualization made open to the public. Data will inform political action and policy changes. 
This event is in collaboration with <A HREF="http://www.outco.io" TARGET="_blank" TITLE="Outco" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Outco</A>(lor), a diversity and inclusion platform specifically designed to provide people of color with job search connections, career services, and a community to share understandings of navigating life in the tech industry. 
 
Task
Raheem Ai is for the community, built by the community. As a result, we're making sure that our platform is built by the people who are most often victims of police brutality and militarization. 
We've built a chatbot that requires further iteration and have completed initial design research for the dashboard. During this hackathon, we'll lay the finishing touches to the chatbot as well as design and develop the interactive dashboard MVP.
By Sunday, we will have designed and completed development for the chatbot and the interactive dashboard. 
 
 
The Final Demo 
On the last day, we'll present our work to a panel of city officials, activists, and law enforcement. The panel will discuss strategies for implementing Raheem Ai and similar police accountability platforms within local government. The panel is open to the public and we encourage attendance by the broader Bay Area community.
 
 
Schedule
This is a weekend-long event (with food!). 
Friday
<UL>
<LI>6:00pm - 7:30pm: Kickoff, discussion, team-forming</LI>
<LI>7:30pm - 12:00am: Working session (break at 10pm)</LI>
</UL>
Saturday
<UL>
<LI>9:00am - 4:30pm: Working Session</LI>
<LI>5:00pm - 7:00pm: Dinner + Demo</LI>
<LI>7:00pm - 10:00pm Working Session</LI>
</UL>
Sunday
<UL>
<LI>9:00am - 12:00pm: Working session</LI>
<LI>2:00pm - 4:00pm: Final Demo</LI>
<LI>4:00pm - 4:45pm Panel Discussion</LI>
<LI>4:45pm - 5:15pm Q&A from audience</LI>
<LI>5:15pm - 6:15pm Happy hour</LI>
</UL>
 
 
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FAQs
 
What kind of hackers are you (especially) looking for?
Designers
<UL>
<LI>Visual design is a ++</LI>
<LI>UX experience is a +</LI>
<LI>Graphic design is a +</LI>
</UL>
Frontend Developers:
<UL>
<LI>Extremely familiar with HTML 5</LI>
<LI>Experience with LESS/SASS a big plus</LI>
<LI>Fluent in at least one front-end framework (React/Angular/Backbone)</LI>
<LI>Comfortable working in the command-line</LI>
</UL>
Backend Developers:
<UL>
<LI>Backend security experts with experience in encryption</LI>
<LI>Experince with system architecture is a ++ </LI>
</UL>
 
What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?
Pivotal Labs is really close to Bart and bus. Lyft is probably the most convenient. There's also street parking outside the building and a parking garage about a block away. 
 
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email Brandon Anderson at hello@raheem.ai

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