This presentation gives facts, figures, background, media response summary and highlights as well as pictures giving an impression of the Random Hacks of Kindness in general, and the hackthon event in Berlin, Germany, in particular. Pictures are from Dec. 2010 and June 2011 at RHoK Berlin. The presentation was held at in June 2011 in Helsinki, Finland, for a group of interested hackers. Hence, it focusses on explaining: what is RHoK? How can you organise one such event? - it provides also some lessons learned in Berlin.

1. Random
Hacks
of
Kindness
in
Berlin
(mostly)
and
in
the
Rest
of
the
World
(a
bit)
Anke
Domscheit-­‐Berg
opengov.me

2. RHoK
is
fun
-­‐
for
a
good
cause

3. What
else
is
RHoK?
• Global
iniDaDve
–
bringing
hackers,
NGOs,
governments
and
industry
together
to
solve
big
problems
in
1
weekend
–
every
6
months
• Founded
by
Google,
MicrosoN,
Yahoo,
Worldbank,
NASA
–
at
2009
conference
• Growing
ever
since...
• Problems:
– Desaster
recovery,
crisis
management
(RHoK0-­‐2)
– +
Climate
change
(RHoK#3)
– +
All
humanitarian
issues
(RHoK#4)

4. Facts
and
Figures
RHoK#2
(Dec.
2010)
• 1000
developpers
• 26
locaDons
• Berlin:
– 30
parDcipants
with
10
naDonaliDes/
countries
of
origins
– 6
hacks
– Caritas
hack
–
used
in
HaiD,
Pakistan,
Japan
– Emergency
Call
App
–
downloaded
7000
Dmes

5. Facts
and
Figures
RHoK#3
• Globally:
– 1.200
registraDons
– 122
problems
– 69
soluDons
– 31
events/locaDons
• Berlin:
– 6100€
budget
(not
enough)
– 300
bo`les
of
soN
drinks
– 75
parDcipants
– 50
registraDons
in
last
week
– 15
females
– 10+
countries
of
origin
– 8
Subject
ma`er
experts
– 7
hacks
– 5
winning
teams

7. Teamwork
is
best
pracDce...

8. Work
was
done
in
teams
of
2-­‐9
ppl

10. Food,
Drinks,
Space
rental,
Prices...
Sponsored
by
companies,
FoundaDons
and
NGOs
Sponsors

11. We
had
a
bar
downstairs...

12. Best
PracDce
*1*
• Involve
Designers!
(should
be
easy
in
Helsinki)
• Berlin
invited
Design
Thinking
School
• Nicer
Apps,
higher
share
of
women
;-­‐)
• Designers
worked
for
all
teams
(on
call)
• Some
went
an
extra
mile
(to
bring
equipment)

13. Recognize
everybody
Berlin
RHoK#3
• T-­‐shirts
for
everybody
• CerDficates
for
everybody
• O‘Reilly
cerDficate
(1
book
download
free)
• SDckers
at
RHoK#2

14. Special
Awards
for
RHoK
Stars
J
Berlin
RHoK#3:
• Winner
shirts
with
gold,
silver,
bronce
digits
and
award
icon
at
the
back
• Prices,
such
as
X-­‐box
with
kinect,
shop
cerDficates,
books,
home
media
servers,
fatboy

15. Invite
a
Top
Level
–
Diverse
Jury
BERLIN
RHoK#3
• 3
Jury
members
came
from
3
Senates
– Interior
– Economy
+
Technolog
– Environment,
Health,
Consumer
ProtecDon
• 1
from
NaDonal
MunicipaliDes
AssociaDon
• 1
Partner
NGO
• 1
Sponsor

16. Special
Challenge
-­‐
Wheelmap
• „Social
Heroes“
NGO
• Created
wheelmap.org
• Needed
bug
fixing
• Needed
new
languages
roll
out
• Needed
new
fundraising
strategies
• Needed
new
supporters
• Got
it
all
• And
got
an
extra
price

17. Global
Website
–
with
selforganised
community

18. Global
page
collects
problems,
soluDons
• Problems
are
described
in
structured
way
• Teams
sign
up
for
problem
soluDon
• SoluDons
are
uploaded
to
github
and
documented
systemaDcally
• Everything
must
be
open
source

19. Orga
Team
worked
with
local
Wiki

20. ORGA
• Free
wireless,
half
a
million
power
plugs
• Catering
(included
night
soup),
Free
soN
drinks,
tea
and
coffee
• Name
tags
for
all
• Press
briefing
package
• Jury
briefing
paper
and
judgement
form
• Leaflet
–
for
press,
hackers,
sponsors,
partners
(1000
updates)

21. ORGA
• Enough
space
to
come
together
and
work
in
all
sorts
of
groups,
room
to
play/chill/hang
out
• Flip
charts
–
for
problem
definiDons,
work
flows
etc.
• DocumentaDon
team
(twi`er,
blogger,
pics
for
flickr
group)
• City
hashtag
(#rhokBLN)
for
tweeDng
• Use
event
to
find
help/sponsors
for
next
event

22. Media
Summary
–
Status
06.06.2011
• 275
reports
• 3
out
of
Top
5
naDon
wide
papers
reported
• 6
TV
channels
reported
(online)
–
1
Austrian
• 1
documentary
film
maker
(Belgian)
• 3
Radio
staDons
reported
(2
naDonal)
• 2
out
of
top
3
weekly
journals
• The
leading
weekly
paper
• Half
of
reports
averages
4.400
characters,
has
pics
• 100%
of
reports
were
posiDve

25. Contact
• Anke
Domscheit-­‐Berg
• Orgateam
member
RHoK#2
and
RHoK#3
in
Berlin
• mailto:
rhok@domscheit-­‐berg.de
• Follow:
– @rhokBerlin
(#rhokBln)
– @anked
– @opengovme