Get Your Tech On For The PHA Innovation Challenge
Tomorrow morning, we’ll be getting together with representatives from the Partnership for a Healthier America and a group of coders, designers, writers, teachers and other subject matter experts to prototype solutions to two challenges that the PHA has set for this year’s pre-conference hackathon. If you are coming to event, it’s time to make sure […]
PHA Innovation Challenge: Health Resources for Families
The Challenge: Childhood Obesity The second area we’re focusing on in the challenge of childhood obesity is local health resources for families. Most of the knowledge about food and exercise is passed down and taught in the home. Often, this information is scarce as there are few options for exercise, play, and healthy food options, […]
PHA Innovation Challenge: Healthy Food Curriculum
The Partnership for A Healthier America Innovation Challenge is fast approaching, and we’d like to give you some insight into the challenges we’ll be tackling over the course of the weekend on the issue of Childhood Obesity. The Challenge: Childhood Obesity The first area we’re focusing on in the challenge of childhood obesity has to […]
Join us for TADHack in Madrid
This June in Madrid, Geeks Without Bounds will be curating a special humanitarian theme at TADHack, the Telephony Application Developer Hackathon. TADHack is a global event, created and driven by the grassroots of the telecommunications industry to “help developers discover the latest ways to add communications to their application, services and business processes.” Many of the […]
February Digital Humanitarian Network Call-in
Audio can be downloaded from here. Topics We Covered The DHN Website The current DHN website is based on the Ning platform, and has a bunch of bottlenecks based on admin roles and how communication happens on it. It is also on a proprietary platform, antithetical to the values of some Network members. They have […]
Partnership for a Healthier America Innovation Challenge
Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA), First Lady Michell Obama’s brainchild, is gearing up for their annual Building a Healthier Future Summit. Industry leaders, technologists, and subject matters experts will gather to explore the challenges and solutions associated with health in the US. With the help of Geeks Without Bounds and The Feast, PHA has […]
Interview: Splunk4Good Program Director Corey Marshall
Splunk is one of Geeks Without Bounds’ fiscal sponsors (the other being Tropo.
Digital Humanitarian Network Summit 2013: Summary and Outcomes
The Digital Humanitarian Network Summit 2013 was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Hundreds of members of the response community had gathered for International Conference of Crisis Mappers 2013, and DHN was an pertinent, actionable followup to a meeting of minds around crisis mapping and humanitarian response. The weekend focused on the following breakout sessions: Why do […]
Open Badges for Crisis Response
Just before the Dublin Hacks event, I found myself in London for Mozfest, the yearly conference for Mozilla. I was there to wander and schmooze, but then I met Jess Klein (now listed on our Who-Is page!). She was working on HackLabs in disaster areas, based on her experience during Hurricane Sandy. What would be […]
Encrypting Communications
Being in Berlin reminded me that I haven’t been around the hackers I know and love since my last round of gadget aquirement. A lot of conversations have been happening recently around the usability of crypto-aware tools (including an event in DC on Jan 11th that GWOB is doing with OpenITP – you should go!). What we […]
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