For the last two years Google has partnered with Microsoft, Yahoo!, HP, NASA and the World Bank on Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK), bringing together subject matter experts and volunteer software developers and designers to create open source software solutions that address challenges facing humanity. The weekend of June 4-5, 2011 we’ll hold the next round of 18 Random Hacks of Kindness global events at five US and 13 international sites, giving the community opportunities to collaborate in person, sprint on projects, and engage in new work together. submit problem definitions online , letting hackers and volunteers know exactly what problems need to be solved, and the context the technology must work in. You can also attend events to meet with developers in person and get them excited about specific projects.I’m OK , a mobile messaging application for disaster response that was used on the ground in Haiti and Chile; Person Finder , a tool created by Google to help people find friends and loved ones after a natural disaster, refined at successive RHoK events and effectively deployed in Haiti, Chile and Japan; and CHASM , a visual tool to map landslide risk currently being piloted by the World Bank in landslide affected areas in the Caribbean.let us know .http://www.rhok.org/ for more information and to sign up for your local event.
Follow
No comments :
Post a Comment
You are welcome to comment here, but your remarks should be relevant to the conversation. To keep the exchanges focused and engaging, we reserve the right to remove off-topic comments, or self-promoting URLs and vacuous messages.