Random Hacks of Kindness - in Berlin 2010/2011
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Random Hacks of Kindness in Berlin (mostly) and in the Rest of the World (a bit) Anke DomscheitBerg opengov.me
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This presentation gives facts, figures, background, media response summary and highlights as well as pictures giving an impression of the Random Hacks of Kindness in general, and the hackthon event in Berlin, Germany, in particular. Pictures are from Dec. 2010 and June 2011 at RHoK Berlin. The presentation was held at in June 2011 in Helsinki, Finland, for a group of interested hackers. Hence, it focusses on explaining: what is RHoK? How can you organise one such event? - it provides also some lessons learned in Berlin.
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Random Hacks of Kindness in Berlin (mostly) and in the Rest of the World (a bit) Anke Domscheit-‐Berg opengov.me
RHoK is fun -‐ for a good cause
What else is RHoK?
• Global iniDaDve – bringing hackers, NGOs, governments and industry together to solve big problems in 1 weekend – every 6 months
• Founded by Google, MicrosoN, Yahoo, Worldbank, NASA – at 2009 conference
• Growing ever since... • Problems:
– Desaster recovery, crisis management (RHoK0-‐2) – + Climate change (RHoK#3) – + All humanitarian issues (RHoK#4)
Facts and Figures RHoK#2 (Dec. 2010)
• 1000 developpers • 26 locaDons • Berlin: – 30 parDcipants with 10 naDonaliDes/countries of origins
– 6 hacks – Caritas hack – used in HaiD, Pakistan, Japan – Emergency Call App – downloaded 7000 Dmes
Facts and Figures RHoK#3 • Globally:
– 1.200 registraDons – 122 problems – 69 soluDons – 31 events/locaDons
• Berlin: – 6100€ budget (not enough) – 300 bo`les of soN drinks – 75 parDcipants – 50 registraDons in last week – 15 females – 10+ countries of origin – 8 Subject ma`er experts – 7 hacks – 5 winning teams
Teamwork is best pracDce...
Work was done in teams of 2-‐9 ppl
Sponsors
Food, Drinks, Space rental, Prices... Sponsored by companies, FoundaDons and NGOs
We had a bar downstairs...
Best PracDce *1* • Involve Designers!
(should be easy in Helsinki)
• Berlin invited Design Thinking School
• Nicer Apps, higher share of women ;-‐)
• Designers worked for all teams (on call)
• Some went an extra mile (to bring equipment)
Recognize everybody
Berlin RHoK#3 • T-‐shirts for everybody • CerDficates for
everybody • O‘Reilly cerDficate (1
book download free) • SDckers at RHoK#2
Special Awards for RHoK Stars J
Berlin RHoK#3: • Winner shirts with
gold, silver, bronce digits and award icon at the back
• Prices, such as X-‐box with kinect, shop cerDficates, books, home media servers, fatboy
Invite a Top Level – Diverse Jury
BERLIN RHoK#3 • 3 Jury members
came from 3 Senates – Interior – Economy +
Technolog – Environment,
Health, Consumer ProtecDon
• 1 from NaDonal MunicipaliDes AssociaDon
• 1 Partner NGO • 1 Sponsor
Special Challenge -‐ Wheelmap
• „Social Heroes“ NGO • Created wheelmap.org • Needed bug fixing • Needed new languages
roll out • Needed new fundraising
strategies • Needed new supporters • Got it all • And got an extra price
Global Website – with selforganised community
Global page collects problems, soluDons
• Problems are described in structured way • Teams sign up for problem soluDon • SoluDons are uploaded to github and
documented systemaDcally • Everything must be open source
Orga Team worked with local Wiki
ORGA
• Free wireless, half a million power plugs
• Catering (included night soup), Free soN drinks, tea and coffee
• Name tags for all • Press briefing package • Jury briefing paper and
judgement form • Leaflet – for press, hackers,
sponsors, partners (1000 updates)
ORGA
• Enough space to come together and work in all sorts of groups, room to play/chill/hang out
• Flip charts – for problem definiDons, work flows etc.
• DocumentaDon team (twi`er, blogger, pics for flickr group)
• City hashtag (#rhokBLN) for tweeDng
• Use event to find help/sponsors for next event
Media Summary – Status 06.06.2011
• 275 reports • 3 out of Top 5 naDon wide papers reported • 6 TV channels reported (online) – 1 Austrian • 1 documentary film maker (Belgian) • 3 Radio staDons reported (2 naDonal) • 2 out of top 3 weekly journals • The leading weekly paper • Half of reports averages 4.400 characters, has pics • 100% of reports were posiDve
Contact
• Anke Domscheit-‐Berg • Orgateam member RHoK#2 and RHoK#3 in Berlin • mailto: rhok@domscheit-‐berg.de • Follow:
– @rhokBerlin (#rhokBln) – @anked – @opengovme
