Help us accelerate humanitarian open-source projects
and “accelerate careers for migrants in tech” with TechStart
The Federations programs to support Open Source Humanitarian projects with hard technical skills are changing in 2022.
This year we shall we connecting the brilliant Humanitarian Aid projects that make up our Open Source Steering Committee with a student on the TechStart program based inside CODE University’s
Contact kavita@federationof.tech to join our next Hackathon and events in 2022
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We are looking for a technical lead to help us with this hackathon. Could that be you ?
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Previous Events
With 25,000 dedicated staff across 122 countries, Save the Children respond to major emergencies, deliver innovative development programmes, and ensure children's voices are heard throughout their campaigning to build a better future for and with children.
Sarah has 20+ years of business and technology change experience. In this talk, she also shares her start as a dancer. Her early life as a coder at IBM’s first e-commerce website and her work creating IBM’s first diversity councils and employee affinity groups. Her work on the Girl Scout Cookie Program garnered media attention from the NY Times, Forbes, and more, as well as recognitions that included a place in Fast Company’s Top 10 Most Innovative Non-profits.
In this talk, you will hear about Sarah’s passion for making the world a better place and how every child deserves a future with her work at Save the Children working across campaigns and technology.
Grace Coffey lives in the borough of Camden and in her day job (also in Camden) works on coordinating volunteers from corporate businesses to support small charities in Camden, as well as fundraising to support Camden Giving’s sustainability. Her work focusses on ensuring Camden Giving can continue its mission of overcoming poverty & inequality in the borough and that Camden’s businesses and employees can be involved as a key element to making this happen.
Janet Chapman is the chair of Tanzania Development Trust, a 45 year old volunteer run charity. She is also the founder of Crowd2Map Tanzania in which over 16,000 online volunteers have added over 5 million Tanzanian buildings into OpenStreetMap. Crowd2Map has also set up Youthmapper chapters in 7 Tanzanian Universities and trained over 800 community mappers, including activists like Rhobi Samwelly who use the maps when rescuing girls from Female Genital Mutilation.
Our Hackathons
To develop Coalesce our Open Source Volunteer Platform we have been hosting a series or Hackathons. Starting in November 2020, continuing in April and November 2021.
We bring together 20 people over 2 or 3 days. This included brilliant mentors technologists, phycologists and UX experts to make our product vision a reality.
Thank you to our partners Just Eat Takeaway
Help us out!
Do you code or like designing software? We would love you to get involved with our Open Source project on GitHub. Start immediately on our volunteering solution under the project Coalesce and join our next Hackathon. We are also creating a new Steering Committee to help direct the future of the product.