The Longest Hackathon in the Philippines "Hack the Climate: Manila" is here!

   This June 6 to 8 at De la Salle University Taft Manila, a coding marathon aiming to create an app (mobile/web/hardware) that can be used by an NGO whose main advocacy is to respond to the Climate Change problem such as Move.ph, Greenpeace, ReDraw the Line, WWF and others, is going to happen! This is an opportunity for everyone to meet like minded people with ideas that could help our country in responding to Climate Change

The 56-hour hackathon will be dedicated for creating web and mobile applications that will be addressing concerns with climate change. These applications can be used to help prevent, prepare, respond, mitigate and recovery efforts when climate related issues arise. These issues include: Pollution (air, land and water), deforestation, overfishing, unsustainable consumption, greenhouse gases, etc.

In a recent volume of the journal Nature, researchers from Princeton document that even slight spikes in temperature and precipitation, which are a of global warming, significantly increase the risk of violent acts such as rape, murder and assault. The official death toll of Haiyan stands at more than 6,300, and if climate change continues unabated the casualties from future climate related disasters could exceed this by several orders of magnitude. Global warming threatens peace globally, and where governments have failed, grassroots action now affords the only democratic, viable alternative for preventing the climate catastrophe.


Princeton University students, Mr. Jacob Scheer and Mr. Michael Lachanski, applied for a grant from Davis Projects for Peace which was coursed through the Pace Center for Civic Engagement, partnered with De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde for a hackathon, coding marathon, with climate change as the theme, "Hack the Climate: Manila".

"In the days following HackPrinceton, we found ourselves staying up late in our common room discussing the possibilities of using technology as a tool for social justice, especially as it relates to the climate crisis. We wondered, what if the same energy that went into the development of YouTube or LinkedIn was applied to conservation, recycling or disaster relief? Hackathons could provide the venue for coordinating grassroots efforts to create technology that solves the climate problem."

 And as what Yeb Saño, Chief Envoy for the Philippines at the November 2013 Warsaw climate forum, said
"What my country is going through as a result of this extreme climate event is madness; the climate crisis is madness!"

A minimal registration fee of 250.00 for students and 500.00 for professionals can be paid on-site. Kits wll include an ID and a shirt.
Prizes include US$ 800 in cash, Macbook Pro, Dell Inspiron Mini 10" netbook,iPod Shuffle, iPod Video, iPod Touch
Please print your eventbrite ticket. Meals will be provided. Also please bring your own extension cords and sleeping bags.

Visit here for more info: https://www.facebook.com/HackTheClimateManila
Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/hack-the-climate-manila-tickets-11690728283?aff=es2&rank=4