| Samantha Snabes shares on the significant correlation between survival in Space and Earth - and how it opens endless collaborative opportunities between those exploring the universe and living on Earth.
| The 5th Global Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event took place this weekend in 34 cities around the world, with close to 2,000 developers “hacking for humanity.” RHoK is a collaboration between NASA, Google, Microsoft, HP, Yahoo and Worldbank. With this weekend’s events, RHoK has now reached a total 99 hackathons worldwide and has engaged [...]
| Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of innovation that brings together subject matter experts with volunteer technologists to develop open technology solutions to the global challenges. Collaborative teams came together at more than 30 sites around the world to “hack for humanity.” More than anything, RHoK is a glorious experiment in focus and fast [...]
| This weekend, 34 cities across the globe will play host to Random Hacks of Kindness #4. Random Hacks of Kindness is a community of innovation that brings together subject matter experts with volunteer technologists to develop open technology solutions to the global challenges. NASA has a long history with RHoK – we were one of [...]
| Recently NYC’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne wrote an article about why cities (but really any level of government) should embrace the code-a-thon. We couldn’t agree more, so we wanted to post her list (slightly modified to include all government, not just NYC) on open.NASA and take this opportunity to encourage you to let you [...]
| Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a community of innovation that is focused on developing practical open source solutions to disaster risk management and climate change adaptation challenges. RHoK is a collective initiative by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA and the World Bank, which brought together thousands of people June 4-5, 2011, from over 18 locations [...]
| RHoK works by bringing together experts in development and volunteers with a broad set of skills in software development and design. The goal is to produce practical open source solutions to development problems. The interface between domain experts and technical experts is the unique realm of Random Hacks of Kindness – bringing both sides of [...]
