RHoK Global is at its midpoint, with many cities just winding up a long day of work, other cities coding late into the night and a few already kicking off their Sunday morning sessions. There are close to 100 diverse projects being tackled at RHoK this round and amazing progress already made at the halfway mark.
Hackers in Melbourne, Hyderabad and Bangalore are already well into their second day of RHoK, with participants working on problems from disaster risk, chronic disease and economic recovery in Melbourne, to pollution and literacy issues in Hyderabad.
Atlanta participants are addressing food safety issues and making it possible for people to remotely participate in town hall meetings. Hackers in Austin are empowering teachers with technology and improving processes at a children’s hospital. Teams in Berlin are building technology to support whistleblowers, analyze land use in Sierra Leone and raise the bar on financial transparency.
At RHoK Montreal they are building games for social change, in Belgium they are creating open data use cases, in Hamburg they are developing facial recognition software for Hacking Autism, in Los Angeles they are greating a database of tool sets for a green economy, and in Hamilton hackers are working on a framework for local recreational activity data.
In Pretoria RHoK hackers are developing a virtual science lab for low-resourced schools and building donor relations management tools. In Burlington teams are working to track data on gleaning unharvested food, identify invasive species, and make their statewide human services information line mobile accessible. In Toronto teams are working on issues of fair housing, maternal mortality and volunteer mapping. RHoK hackers are working to find missing children in Washington D.C. and to track wifi strength in disaster scenarios in Seattle.
RHoK’s Nairobi organizers from the Kenyan Red Cross Society have spearheaded a RHoK collaboration across East Africa, supporting events in Kigali and Dar es Salaam in addition to Nairobi. RHoK East Africa teams are addressing issues from tracking structural collapse after a disaster, to emergency response systems, to election monitoring.
In addition to local problems, a number of problems, including those from RHoK’s featured problem set, are being addressed across multiple locations.
Hackers in Melbourne, Hyderabad and Bangalore are already well into their second day of RHoK, with participants working on problems from disaster risk, chronic disease and economic recovery in Melbourne, to pollution and literacy issues in Hyderabad.
Atlanta participants are addressing food safety issues and making it possible for people to remotely participate in town hall meetings. Hackers in Austin are empowering teachers with technology and improving processes at a children’s hospital. Teams in Berlin are building technology to support whistleblowers, analyze land use in Sierra Leone and raise the bar on financial transparency.
At RHoK Montreal they are building games for social change, in Belgium they are creating open data use cases, in Hamburg they are developing facial recognition software for Hacking Autism, in Los Angeles they are greating a database of tool sets for a green economy, and in Hamilton hackers are working on a framework for local recreational activity data.
In Pretoria RHoK hackers are developing a virtual science lab for low-resourced schools and building donor relations management tools. In Burlington teams are working to track data on gleaning unharvested food, identify invasive species, and make their statewide human services information line mobile accessible. In Toronto teams are working on issues of fair housing, maternal mortality and volunteer mapping. RHoK hackers are working to find missing children in Washington D.C. and to track wifi strength in disaster scenarios in Seattle.
RHoK’s Nairobi organizers from the Kenyan Red Cross Society have spearheaded a RHoK collaboration across East Africa, supporting events in Kigali and Dar es Salaam in addition to Nairobi. RHoK East Africa teams are addressing issues from tracking structural collapse after a disaster, to emergency response systems, to election monitoring.
In addition to local problems, a number of problems, including those from RHoK’s featured problem set, are being addressed across multiple locations. - Amnesty International is receiving support from RHoKers in Berlin and San Francisco on their labor migration problem definition.
- The Pledge for Hope problem being led in Austin has teams working in Nairobi and Santo Domingo as well.
- A team in Washington D.C. working on a World Bank procurement contract challenge has a remote member in Hyderabad.
- Teams in D.C. and San Francisco are collaborating closely on the Nike Sustainable Materials challenge.
- Teams in San Francisco and Belgium are working on visualizing human rights data for Benetech.
- Philadelphia, Austin and Santo Domingo teams are working on a shelter tracking application.
- A team in RHoK Southampton is working with an expert at RHoK Dar es Salaam on mobile reporting of water and sanitation infrastructure breakdowns.
- A Trento team is working with an expert in D.C. on screening of open data for sensitive information before publication.
- Teams in Hamburg, Philadelphia and Berlin are all supporting improvements to RHoK.org.
Tune in tomorrow for final presentations via livestream on RHoK’s Ustream channel here and see what hackers around the world have built during the past 48 hours in response to these compelling challenges!