Crisis and technology
Jeremy Johnstone · 2021
How can the international technology community help support disaster response efforts? In the summer of 2009, Crisis Camp attendees met in Washington, D.C. to try and answer this very question. This "bar camp" style event was the genesis to the creation of Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK),1 a global community of technologists dedicated to solving problems for NGO, charities, non-profits and social enterprises by organizing recurring Hackathons around the globe, the first of which (RHoK #0) was in November of 2009. RHoK's goal is to combine technologists together with disaster response subject matter experts based on the theory that technology solutions and out of the box thinking could aid global disaster response.