2024-09-21T13:38:12-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/47674852/in-san-francisco-urban-cybertechniques Nam Henderson 2012-05-07T22:28:00-04:00 >2012-05-07T23:42:55-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/mn/mnk7xauspgxl6cwe.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Even tougher, Ms. Yamamoto said, would be the labor involved in grafting the system onto the city&rsquo;s existing archaic reservation network or building a new one from scratch. Jake Levitas, research director at the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, the San Francisco digital arts nonprofit that conceived Creative Currency, believes that such obstacles are best surmounted by applying the hacker mind-set to community issues.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Recently a &ldquo;hackathon,&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="http://creative-currency.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creative Currency</a>&nbsp;put together by GAFFTA, the Hub, American Express, and the City and County of San Francisco, brought together 150 people to figure out how technology could help those in the Tenderloin and Mid-Market areas of the city who do not have roofs over their heads, much less Web browsers. Creative Currency is seeking to develop "<em>a new model for building and sustaining innovative, impactful, community-driven projects</em>" using a digital, iterative and <a href="http://www.shareable.net/blog/hacking-new-tools-for-a-new-economy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">shareable</a> toolset but focused geographically in the "<strong>Mid-Market region of San Francisco</strong>".</p>