Hacking for Hunger
Sept 14-16, 2012 USAID held its first hackathon, convening entrepreneurs, food security stakeholders, data experts, programers, and volunteers to build powerful new technology applications to tackle critical food security challenges in developing countries.
- It was 5:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon but rather than leaving the office for the weekend, people were pouring into USAID's aptly named "IDEA lab." Why? For food. Not for the enticing spread laid out on the corner table, but for the chance to help tackle critical food security challenges in developing countries. While many dedicated entrepreneurs, food security stakeholders, data experts, programers and volunteers who filled the lab, even more attended virtually, from Houston, the UK, and even Austria (the Delhi team was fast asleep).
Hacking for Hunger ~ Presentations & Judging | IDEAHacking for Hunger, USAID's first hackathon, is a core component of the Food Security Open Data Challenge. Team leads, technologists, foo...
Hacker fever is catching! @USAID’s 1st hackathon, #Hack4Hunger, is starting today. Check it out bit.ly/Hacking4Hunger #Geeks4Good
“@LorenaLunaE: Excited about @USAID's first hackathon today: #Hack4Hunger! ! idea.usaid.gov/opendata @andreamcornejo” geeks at their best :)
Kicking off #hack4hunger. "Food security is part of national security." @ProjectOpenData
Go team go! “@haleyvandyck Kicking off @USAID #hack4hunger with new presidential innovation fellows #innovategov http://pic.twitter.com/6pJglWjd”
Coding for global good: good luck to USAID with its first hackathon today, #Hack4Hunger. idea.usaid.gov/opendata
US Agency for Int'l Development is holding its first hackathon today! You can participate virtually #hack4hunger idea.usaid.gov/opendata/Hacki…- USAID's first hackathon started with introductions by Nathaniel Manning, Presidential Innovation Fellow and Special Advisor on the Open Data Initiative at USAID; Ricardo Michel, Deputy Director of the Office of Innovation and Development Alliances, USAID; and Julie Howard, Bureau of Food Security at USAID. Then attention turned to the T.V. screen as team leads in Houston, Austria, and the UK pitched their ideas to potential collaborators.
- Early Saturday, six eager teams began to hack away at the challenges they had set for themselves: Grower's Nation, PineApple Project, Geo-Wiki, Digital Green + Palantir, Grameen Foundation + Palantir, and a new arrival, Sonjara.
Grower's Nation: Hacking for Hunger Begins.It's just after 2pm here in the UK and we've sat down to a Skype conversation with members of our sister challenge the Pineapple Project....
All set for #Hack4Hunger...join us @digitalgreenorg to work on some cool product which will make a difference
Coders & Volunteers are in full swing @USAID #Hack4Hunger!Stoby by if you're in D.C. or join teams underway online at idea.usaid.gov/opendata/chall…
USAID: From Austria to India to Houston, TX, people are logging in now to #Hack4Hunger. Join them at ow.ly/dIvgi
RT @GrowersNation: Calling all app developers... wld U lk 2 help code a global agronomy map 4 the Grower's Nation project? #Hack4Hunger
Good morning twitter! We're just getting ready at Grower's Nation HQ to #Hack4Hunger with @USAID. Just need gummibears...
It's awesome to be working on the Digital Green hack at #Hack4Hunger ... people working on diverse ideas - all for the same cause!
#developers can you help solve hunger? Join in USAID's #hacking4hunger 9/14-18 in Virginia 1.usa.gov/Q27z28
