March 2013 Team Updates
Here’s a quick update on what our current accelerator teams are up to! Our teams completed their most recent mentorship sessions with Christy Wilson of Splunk and talked about business plans, big data, and how to form partnerships. The teams may take advantage of Splunk4Good’s software offerings, a program of Splunk that works with non-profits ...
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 ...
First Hackathon and Hackathon Firsts
Note: This is a personal piece from our Content Creator, Lindsay Oliver, with additional input from one of the EveryoneHacks winners, Wendy Fong. EveryoneHacks was the first hackathon that I actively participated in. Seriously. I’ve been around them plenty of times in the past few years, but only from the sidelines, in passing at my ...
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 ...
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 ...
Occupy Sandy: Notes from Adam Greenfield
Adam Greenfield, Speedbird blogger and author of Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing, has written an account of the Occupy Sandy relief effort in New York from the perspective of an in-the-trenches volunteer. His post, Preliminary Notes to a Diagram of Occupy Sandy, provides an in-depth look at the structural and cultural factors contributing ...
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 ...
Get to Know the Teams: The Pineapple Project!
The Pineapple Project, our US-based team, is developing a SMS application for subsistence farmers in tropical and sub-tropical regions. The goal of their application is to provide farmers with information on markets, growing conditions, and resources to make their yields as profitable and efficient as possible. The team hopes that through this distribution of information, ...
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