Local business owners, tech savvy folks, and students gathered in one place to share ideas.
"Our approach to being able to speak with our public about how we can use technology to make day to day existence easier with the city," said Forest Frizzell, Department of Information Technology.
Honolulu joined other cities across the globe like Chicago, San Francisco and London in an initiative called "city camp."
The idea behind it is to make city information more accessible to the public with the use of technology.
"We as government can't come up with these things I can't say hey I'm going to build this app and it's going to help you do X-Y-Z I need someone from the public," said Frizzell.
And while many app ideas created by the city will be free, business owners can create apps using city information for a price.
One of many attendees was David Kozuki.
He owns "people bridge"...a social media networking site.
"There's a whole wealth of other data that's technically available to the public but there's just no way to get at it," said David Kozuki, People Bridge owner.
Some city apps are already available on-line.
And many more will launch soon.
"We're about to launch refuge collection app it's going to let you know what color bin you're supposed to put on the street," said Frizzell.
Honolulu 311 is another app set to launch.
It will allow folks to take pictures of potholes, broken streetlights and abandoned vehicles in their neighborhood and send it directly to the city agency.
"I feel that it's kind of a great way to gear the future just because that's what we're going with like technology itself . I think it's a good cause I'm kind of excited to see where they're going to go with it," said Chaslee Ikawa, UH PRSSA president.
More meetings are being planned in the upcoming months.
