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What is CityCamp?

CityCamp is a barcamp focused on innovation for municipal governments and community organizations.

Each City Camp has four  main goals:

1. Bring together local government officials, municipal employees, experts, programmers, designers, citizens and journalists to share perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live
2. Create or maintain patterns for local government transparency and effective local governance using the Web as a platform
3. Foster communities of practice and advocacy on the role of information and open data in cities
4. Create outcomes that participants will act upon after the event is over

CityCamp explores and documents ideas, lessons learned, best practices, and patterns that can be implemented within and shared across municipalities, anywhere in the world.  Of particular interest is the use of social/participatory media, mobile devices, linked open data, and "Web as platform.”  

CityCamp recognizes that local governments and community organizations have the most direct influence and impact on our daily lives.  This event seeks to create local communities of practice who are dedicated to design, process, and technology applications that make cities more open and “user friendly.”

The first CityCamp was held in Chicago, Illinois, 23-24 January, 2010.  CityCamp is inspired by Transparency Camp and Gov 2.0 Camp.

Where is CityCamp?

Current CityCamps: 

• London, England, U.K. (October 8-10, 2010)
• Atlanta (December 3-4, 2010)
• San Francisco (October 16-17, 2010)
• St. Petersburg, Russia (October 23-24, 2010) 
• Colorado (Arvada, Boulder, Castle Rock, Denver) (December 4-5, 2010) 
• Boston, MA, (March 5-6, 2011) 
• Buenos Aires, CABA, Argentina (September 8, 2012 - December 7, 2013)
• Monterrey (metropolitan), México (October 27,2012)
• Santiago (January 12, 2013) 
• Mar del Plata, Argentina (August 23, 2014)

Past CityCamps:

• Washington, D.C. (June 12-13, 2010) 
• Chicago (Inaugural CityCamp) (January 23-24, 2010)

How do I connect with CityCampers?

• Twitter: @CityCamp - Official hashtag #citycamp  List: twitter.com/citycamp/cities
• E-mail List: forums.e-democracy.org/groups/citycamp
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130953577981
• GovLoop: www.govloop.com/group/citycamp
• Delicious: delicious.com/tag/CityCamp
• USE YOUR OWN LOCAL CHANNELS TO CONNECT DURING YOUR OWN CAMPS

How do I organize a CityCamp?

• CityCamp How-To