RHoK New Orleans and National Day of Civic Hacking
Random Hacks of Kindness is upon us! While we’ll be participating in several cities around the globe, New Orleans is our main event. Our very own Willow will be running the show (watch for the blue-haired one). This year’s challenges are curated with the needs of the New Orleans community in mind, as well as ...
Data Anywhere: a Participatory, Open Data Commons
from the DataAnywhere team / OccupyData Data is available in bits publicly, but aggregated by companies that want to charge for it. Other data may be free in aggregate form, but is not available for live query/access, or data additions from the public. This project aims to solve these problems, one data set at a ...
Boston Review
So, I was at the lovely H4D2 conference, after the hackathon, hearing about tools people had built for response. One of my favorites was @SemanticFire. But I was peopled-out, and left dinner early. Connecting my phone to the wifi for one last twitter check before a book and bed, a deluge of texts and IMs ...
So much goodness at Glasgow SpaceApps
The Second International Space Apps Challenge was the largest international hackathon ever with over 8000 registered participants around the globe. I’ve written so much about the Glasgow event over at the Space Apps Glasgow Tumblr and in a variety of other emails and reports, I’d like to just take this blog post to share some ...
H4D2 Two
In September 2012, a group of technologists and disaster response experts gathered together for the Hackathon for Disaster Response 2.0 (H4D2) at Aston University in Birmingham, England. This past weekend, April 12-14 2013, we gathered again to continue our work together. Four projects received special focus, with team members working collaboratively both within single projects ...
SpaceApps Challenge Krakow: Final Logistics
Hello SpaceApps Attendees! In preparation for Saturday, here is some logistical information before the event gets started. Challenges and Projects We’ve curated a list of challenges we’ll be participating in that we feel are most beneficial to society as a whole and give back in a humanitarian way. Check out the list below for a ...
Data Anywhere for Disaster Response
In the last couple of decades, vast amounts of data have been collected about people, environments and situations. That data tends to exist in quarantined silos, aggregated only by organizations that spend large sums for that data and then keep the new aggregate in their own quarantined silos. This means that data is available for ...
Konektaz Open Development & Open Data
On April 15, 2013 the United Nations marked the 1000 day mark to the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals. The eight goals are: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Achieve universal primary education. Promote gender equality and empower women. Reduce child mortality. Improve maternal health. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. Ensure environmental ...
International SpaceApps Challenge Krakow
Geeks Without Bounds will be participating and facilitating in the Krakow edition of the International SpaceApps Challenge at Google for Entrepreneurs Krakow on April 20-21, 2013. Chosen Challenges My Virtual Mentor Revitalize the PDS Space Station Benefits to Humanity We Love Data Seeing Water From Space Detailed Schedule Breakdown Saturday 9:00 – Doors open, coffee ...
International Space Apps Challenge in Glasgow
This field report is posted by Lisha Sterling. In just two weeks people will be gathering in person at 75 locations around the world and on the International Space Station for the Second International Space Apps Challenge. Geeks Without Bounds organized the San Francisco event last year, and we are proud to be organizing two ...
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