“Mi Bogotá Verde,” or My Green Bogota, a new, crowdsourced digital map that will track solid waste disposal – the first of many urban environmental concerns – is just weeks away from going online in Bogota.

The map was developed during the first hackathon of the Bogota chapter of Hacks/Hackers, created just four months ago.

A digital mapping tool to track corruption in Colombia on a national scale launched July 24, a result of our partnership with the Consejo de Redacción, a country-wide organization of investigative journalists.

Our newly-formed chapter of Hacks/Hackers in Bogota is losing no time in getting to work. At our second meeting on May 29, the 40 journalists and developers present agreed to begin a first project: an online, crowdsourced map to share information about environmental problems in the capital.