Participants at workshop in Manizales, Colombia on crowdsourcing and the Monitor de Corrupción

During a Hacks-Hackers Bogota meeting

Participants at workshop in Manizales, Colombia on crowdsourcing and the Monitor de Corrupción

During a Hacks-Hackers Bogota meeting

Information management specialist Luis Hernando Aguilar, standing, is part of the technology team on the project, which uses the open-source Ushahidi mapping platform. (Photo by Elkin Garavito)

The group worked on strategies for citizen input monitoring the garbage problems of Bogota, a city of more than 8 million people.

Among those working on strategy, which includes focusing first on monitoring waste management concerns in the capital city, is Rayza Reyes Marciales, who is building a journalism website.

A look at the digital map in progress.

Colombia’s first Hacks/Hackers group met August 11 in Bogota.

Elkin Garavito (left) is manager of the Hacks/Hackers project, whose participants include journalists, cartographers, designers, developers, Web entrepreneurs and environmentalists. (Photo by Ronnie Lovler)