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 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 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 ...
Deployed Devices call
If you could put anything at all onto devices shipped into the field during disaster response, and they could stay through recovery, what would you put on them? What about a few million devices being shipped into developing areas? These are the questions we asked of ourselves and others in light of Microsoft’s Disaster response ...
OpenITP San Francisco: FOIA Club
Geeks Without Bounds helped facillitate the Open ITP Club meeting at the Noisebridge iteration in San Francisco. We’ve compiled the resources gathered at the event, including videos of the talks and our notes on the event. Nate Cardozo from EFF spoke on the process of the Freedom of Information Act, commonly referred to as FOIA ...
Apps to Empower
Apps to Empower is seeking submissions for its global app-writing competition, and the deadline is April 30th. To be considered, teams from around the world will submit Android 2.2 applications that directly benefit women. Applications will be judged by a panel of judges based on the following criteria: a. Relevance – Value addition to the ...
Girl Develop It: How to Rock Your First Hackathon
If you’re thinking of attending Everyone Hacks but aren’t sure how these hackathon things work, we’ve got the perfect introduction to the world of hacking. Girl Develop It, a female-inclusive developers group in San Francisco, is hosting the How to Rock Your First Hackathon event as a crash course in logistics, culture, and skills no ...
Bachchao: A mobile call for help.
Trigger warning for victims of assault. Imagine that you are walking home from work on a dark winter’s night. To get to your apartment, you have to walk through a narrow alley that leads to your building. Over the last few weeks, there have been several muggings in that alley. Each time, the victims said ...
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