About us
Random Hacks of Kindness: a community of developers, geeks and tech-savvy do-gooders around the world, working to develop software solutions that respond to the challenges facing humanity today. RHoK is coordinated by a Core team made up of representatives of the founding partners: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, NASA and the World Bank. 2nd Muse acts as operational lead. Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is all about using technology to make the world a better place by building a community of innovation. RHoK brings software engineers together with disaster risk management experts to identify critical global challenges, and develop software to respond to them. A RHoK Hackathon event brings together the best and the brightest hackers from around the world, who volunteer their time to solve real-world problems. How does it work? RHoK organizes hackathons — marathon hacking events with multiple global locations bringing together developers from all over to hack on real-world problems. We work together with subject matter experts from around the world and our close collaborators over at Crisis Commons to define and refine those problems through Crisis Camps and in small groups, turning them into concrete problem definitions or “Featured Hacks”. At every RHoK Hackathon the Featured Hacks are thrown out to the RHoK community, and the developers work their hacking magic to create software solutions to respond to those problems and make the world a better place.
- Industry
- IT Services and IT Consulting
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2009