Hacking for humanity in Silicon Valley and around the world
Two years ago, representatives from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard, NASA and the World Bank have come together to form the program Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK). The idea was simple: technology can and should be used for the good. RHoK brings together experts in the field, Software developers and designers of open source software. The 4-5 June 2011 will Random Hacks full third of global events with the collaboration of 5 U.S. cities and 13 International sites, giving to the community of local developers the opportunity to work on the problems of people.
“The community has already developed some applications RHoK focused on crisis response, as I’mOK , a mobile messaging application for disaster response, which was used on the ground in Haiti and Chile, and CHASM, a visual tool to view a map of landslide risk is currently being tested by the World Bank in areas affected by landslides in the Caribbean. Persona Finder , a tool designed the crisis response team of Google to help people find friends and relatives after a natural disaster, was also refined at events RHoK and used effectively in Haiti, Chile Japan.
We are inviting all designers, Developers, and anyone else who wants to help “hack for Humanity”, to attend one of local events the 4-5 June. There, you can meet other open source developers, work with experts in climate and disaster issues and contribute code to interesting projects that make a difference. If you are in Northern California, Come join us in the Valley RHoK evento Silicon Valley a Google headquarters.
And if you're part of an organization working in the field of crisis response or
climate change, can submit a statement of the problem online , so that developers and volunteers can work on developing technology to meet the challenge.
Visit http://www.rhok.org/ For more information and to sign up for your local event, and get set to put your hacking skills to good use.”
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