On October 22nd and 23rd an unprecedented event is taking place: WaterHackathon – an international hackathon bringing together programmers to tackle one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Lack of safe water and adequate sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness, responsible for over two million deaths every year. In Kenya specifically, economic development is spurring demand for more and better food and climate change increases the frequency of floods and droughts, the sustainable management of water is acquiring new urgency. The problems are being collected. Be part of the solution! Nairobi WaterHackathon will take place simultaneously with other global cites from Cairo to Kampala to Washington D.C. Technologists are invited to work hand in hand with water experts in their countries in an intensive weekend of hacking together technical solutions that can help global communities address their water problems Registration at http://www.rhok.org/event/waterhackathon-nairobi You can contact me directly for more details. -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 720 406 093 | E: pkariuki@gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: http://www.kaboro.com/ |
Hi Phares, What will it entail? Regards, Vincent On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
On October 22nd and 23rd an unprecedented event is taking place: WaterHackathon – an international hackathon bringing together programmers to tackle one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Lack of safe water and adequate sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness, responsible for over two million deaths every year. In Kenya specifically, economic development is spurring demand for more and better food and climate change increases the frequency of floods and droughts, the sustainable management of water is acquiring new urgency. The problems are being collected. Be part of the solution!
Nairobi WaterHackathon will take place simultaneously with other global cites from Cairo to Kampala to Washington D.C. Technologists are invited to work hand in hand with water experts in their countries in an intensive weekend of hacking together technical solutions that can help global communities address their water problems Registration at
http://www.rhok.org/event/waterhackathon-nairobi
You can contact me directly for more details.
-- With Regards,
Phares Kariuki
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Hi Pahres, Thanks so much for sharing this. You can count me in. Regards Richard Gathogo *Love covers a multitude of sins.* On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Vincent Ngundi <vincent@ngundi.me.ke>wrote:
Hi Phares,
What will it entail?
Regards,
Vincent
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
On October 22nd and 23rd an unprecedented event is taking place: WaterHackathon – an international hackathon bringing together programmers to tackle one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Lack of safe water and adequate sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness, responsible for over two million deaths every year. In Kenya specifically, economic development is spurring demand for more and better food and climate change increases the frequency of floods and droughts, the sustainable management of water is acquiring new urgency. The problems are being collected. Be part of the solution!
Nairobi WaterHackathon will take place simultaneously with other global cites from Cairo to Kampala to Washington D.C. Technologists are invited to work hand in hand with water experts in their countries in an intensive weekend of hacking together technical solutions that can help global communities address their water problems Registration at
http://www.rhok.org/event/waterhackathon-nairobi
You can contact me directly for more details.
-- With Regards,
Phares Kariuki
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The title sounds like - a bunch of guys, seated beside the murky waters of Nairobi River, with their laptops out, doing a series of hacks based on a competition from some announcer with a microphone shouting things like: "Hack into the Nairobi City Council Website and get me the phone numbers of all landrover tow trucks - Go !!!! " === Is this what will happen at the Hackathon or is my imagination running way ahead ... ???
I thought they would hack in and erase all the bills of people in arrears so that they can have a fresh start On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:43 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
The title sounds like - a bunch of guys, seated beside the murky waters of Nairobi River, with their laptops out, doing a series of hacks based on a competition from some announcer with a microphone shouting things like:
"Hack into the Nairobi City Council Website and get me the phone numbers of all landrover tow trucks - Go !!!! "
=== Is this what will happen at the Hackathon or is my imagination running way ahead ... ???
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I think they should hack into the water companies systems and do some dope optimizations. Thanks and regards, Ian On 20 September 2011 14:11, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought they would hack in and erase all the bills of people in arrears so that they can have a fresh start
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 1:43 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
The title sounds like - a bunch of guys, seated beside the murky waters of Nairobi River, with their laptops out, doing a series of hacks based on a competition from some announcer with a microphone shouting things like:
"Hack into the Nairobi City Council Website and get me the phone numbers of all landrover tow trucks - Go !!!! "
=== Is this what will happen at the Hackathon or is my imagination running way ahead ... ???
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-- Sent from my Voice Recognition Watch© -------------------------------------------------------------------- Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,but that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.As we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear,our presence automatically liberates others.
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There will be a predefined problem set. I will be sharing what exactly will be developed on that day, but to give you an idea of what may be developed are mashups of water access across Nairobi, so that the NWSC can have data on problem points in the city etc -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 720 406 093 | E: pkariuki@gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: http://www.kaboro.com/ |
Hi all, Is there any update on this event? Regards Richard Gathogo. *Love covers a multitude of sins.* On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
There will be a predefined problem set. I will be sharing what exactly will be developed on that day, but to give you an idea of what may be developed are mashups of water access across Nairobi, so that the NWSC can have data on problem points in the city etc
-- With Regards,
Phares Kariuki
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Yes... We have 10 developer slots left... On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Richard Gathogo <muraguri2005@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi all, Is there any update on this event? Regards Richard Gathogo.
*Love covers a multitude of sins.*
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com>wrote:
There will be a predefined problem set. I will be sharing what exactly will be developed on that day, but to give you an idea of what may be developed are mashups of water access across Nairobi, so that the NWSC can have data on problem points in the city etc
-- With Regards,
Phares Kariuki
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participants (6)
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Ian Macharia -
Joram Mwinamo -
ndungu stephen -
Phares Kariuki -
Richard Gathogo -
Vincent Ngundi