Building Humanitarian hackers in your communities - How to

Presented at Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017), Aug. 4, 2017, 11:30 p.m. (45 minutes)

This talk will share lessons from the random hacks of kindness community on how best to involve technologists to create solutions humanitarian and civic issues in a community. #Community #Society Humanitarian Crisis and Civic Issues everywhere are in constant need of more support systems. Some of these issues need technology to be built but often it so happens that there is no local know how on building the technology. In this session we talking about how a community can engage technologists to contribute. This session will be based on lessons from Random Hacks of Kindness community

Presenters:

• chinmayisk
  Technologist who works on digital rights, gender issues and hackerspaces. I am a feminist technologist who believes in principles of openness. My professional work includes being the Global operations co-ordinator for random hacks of Kindness , running the bachchao project and anansegroup.

Links:

• https://program.sha2017.org/events/308.html

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