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iHub Nairobi hosts Random Hack of Kindness Hackathon

By Carlos Miranda Levy - Posted on 06 June 2010

On Saturday and Sunday June 5 and 6, 2010, newly launched Kenya's innovation center iHub Nairobi hosts a marathon of programmers and developers working in different teams to address social needs and problems and develop technical tools to support their solution.

You can see the Live Stream here:

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The teams are working on the following issues:

  • Person Finder.
  • I Need Help.
  • We Have / We Need.
  • SMS/Browser Alerts.
  • Haiti Amputees Registration via SMS and medical records.
  • Money tracker.

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Working on the Haiti AMPs Network. Their solution to this problem was to have Amputee registration via SMS and Web platforms.
Working on browser alerts. An SMS based application that sends SMS’s to a particular contact in case of disaster.
Team O-Funds
Working on the Person-Finder problem. They intend to make use of both web and mobile technologies to solve this problem.
Working on the I Need Help problem. They split themselves into two core teams, web and mobile.
This team decided to work on the WeHaveWeNeed Application. They decided to work on a web prototype and report on improvements
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