A Hackathon is a day-long community tech event with local civic hackers, government staff, developers, designers, urbanists, community organizers and others passionate about making our city better. Hackathon teams collaboratively build projects, apps, and products using publicly-released data, technology, and design processes to improve Jersey City.
HackJC: Hack into Sustainability challenged teams to present proposals to make Jersey City a more sustainable place to work, play and live using of data, technology, reports, articles and expert speakers, responding to challenges proposed by various stakeholders.