Partnership with Splunk!
We’re entering into a partnership with Splunk as one of our program sponsors. We feel extremely fortunate to be working with a company that not only makes data easy to understand and analyze, but also actively engages in social good via their Splunk 4 Good program. What does this partnership mean for Geeks Without Bounds? ...
Digital Humanitarian Scaling Call
There’s an affiliations group called Digital Humanitarian Network which GWOB (and some other great groups) are a part of. The group is growing steadily, and defining itself as it goes. We played through a scenario together at ICCM 2012, and are looking forward to further interaction with people in the future. Below follow the notes ...
Uchaguzi: Monitoring the 2013 Kenyan Election
Today is the Kenyan general election, and their first election since the new constitution was implemented. After the 2008 Kenyan election, violence erupted amid alleged charges of results manipulation. Ushahidi, a crowdsourced reporting platform, provided visualizations of violence and citizen reports during both the 2008 and 2010 elections. For the 2013 elections, Ushahidi has launched ...
First Hackathon to Be Held in Haiti
Digital Democracy is hosting “From Local Solutions to National Systems,” a gender-based violence Hackathon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. See the following press release and the event page here for more details. Digital Democracy Hosts the First Hackathon to Take Place in Haiti Event convenes Haitian & International developers to address gender-based violence Feb 1, 2013, Port-au-Prince, ...
Everyone Hacks: Post-Event Breakdown
Everyone Hacks was a resounding success! Our teams were dedicated, our sponsors generous, and our judges thoughtful. This isn’t our first rodeo, but we were impressed with the level of creativity in forming solutions to educational challenges from everyone involved. To get the full social media experience, check out the hashtag #EveryoneHacks on twitter and ...
SendGrid and Everyone Hacks
SendGrid, one of our lovely sponsors for Everyone Hacks in January, is offering up to four of the most addictive, fun prizes ever for one of the winning teams: Spheros! A tiny, programmable (and hackable) robot easily controlled with a smartphone or tablet, the Sphero is compatible with over 20 free iOS and Android apps ...
V&TC summit summary
Huge hearts to Galit for so much help on this doc, and to Matt Stempeck and Heather Leson for their heavy input. On October 10th, a small group of Volunteer and Technical Community leaders and academics focused on crisis and humanitarian response gathered at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. The V&TC summit was ...
September Digital Humanitarian Check-In
Attendees: List yourselves out as you join the call, the order we go in will be determined by this. Willow goes last. Evert with Haiti Connect Cat with Humanity Road Scott with FEMA Pascal with Crisis Commons Jen with Crisis Mappers Willow with Geeks Without Bounds Agenda: What we’re up to today – Willow Organizational ...
Breaking Down Silos
Interoperability is a *huge* issue in emergency management, humanitarian response, ..actually, in an awful lot of things. My hometown in rural Indiana didn’t even have a way for the fire department to speak to the police department, it was all done via 911 operators switching lines. Add on the issues of county lines, security clearance, ...
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