{"id":38927,"date":"2023-10-20T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/hackers-who-give-a-shit-unite-again-for-random-hacks-of-kindness-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:59:44","slug":"hackers-who-give-a-shit-unite-again-for-random-hacks-of-kindness-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/hackers-who-give-a-shit-unite-again-for-random-hacks-of-kindness-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hackers who give a shit” unite again for Random Hacks of Kindness – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What happens when you put a curious high school student, an experienced corporate executive, a savvy designer and programmer into a room?<\/p>\n

“You get lateral thinking solutions to problems,” says Brisbane’s Random Hacks of Kindness lead Bruce Stronge.<\/p>\n

“Hackers” will come together to do just this on Saturday, November 26, and Sunday, November 27, in\u00a0Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Western Sydney and Ipswich.<\/p>\n

Read more: How a group of chance-makers are giving hackers a new\u00a0face<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The event brings a wide range of individuals under one roof to hack a range of humanitarian solutions\u2014from the plight of refugees, to improving financial literacy, charity fundraising and crisis mapping in natural disaster zones.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone wants to do good innately,\u201d Stronge tells\u00a0StartupSmart.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor technologists, [this] is a channel to give back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stronge, the founder of NetEngine and Outfit<\/a>, says\u00a0more than double the number of people are participating in Queensland this year, compared to last year’s event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had everyone from the CTO of Foxtel to students at QUT [last year],\u201d says Stronge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a really good opportunity for students to build real world projects with people who have [more than] 30 years of experience,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

With no hierarchy and a collaborative environment for lateral thinking and learning, Stronge says the event enables people in the community and his own startup teams to put their efforts and talent to goodwill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re trying to bring together humanitarian community projects to technologists,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic way to engage our team at NetEngine and Outfit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Random Hacks of Kindness\u2019 official national partners are the REA Group and DIUZ Consulting, and it supports non-profits like Oxfam and the ongoing crisis mapping project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re teaching people how to crowd curate maps to help crisis response teams,\u201d\u00a0Stronge says.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re not a programmer or technologist, we\u2019ll be teaching people how to help people in real time [with] a piece of software and technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

RHok Australia manager Dr Angus Hervey on Hacking for Humanity<\/h3>\n