Diaspora Day of Civic Hacking International Hackathon

Join technology evangelists and community leaders Saturday, February 7 at the Diaspora Day of Civic Hacking! Changemakers will gather across 6 cities and 4 countries to devise innovative solutions in support of organizations that empower Diaspora communities around the world. The event is organized by tiphub, the business accelerator and consultancy that supports seed stage technology and social impact ventures in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Aimed at leveraging the ingenious of the African Diaspora to counter social issues, DDCH will bring together a mix of technologists and thought leaders to spark transformative economic, social, cultural, and political change.Over the course of the day event-goers will segment into teams in which they will develop plans and hacks to counter technical challenges on behalf of the 2015 DDCH featured organizations: Asante Africa Foundation, The Peace Corps, BudgIT, The Dream Defenders, United Negro College Fund. Upon completion of the event, the projects will be supplied to the featured organizations to review in addition to being uploaded to our open sourced portal where visitors can access the hacks to ignite change within their own communities all around the world.

RSVP at civichacking.tiphub.org