IT General

Last week we all descended upon the Googleplex where we reviewed the past, dreamed about the future and began our concrete planning for RHoK 3. We’ve culled through the lessons learned and valuable advice that many of you passed along and it is clear that, although most everything we heard was overwhelmingly positive, there are many opportunities to make this next event even better than the last. The success of RHoK 2 was, of course, the result of a phenomenal global partnership between corporations, organizations, subject matter experts, designers, hackers, event planners and a small army of other volunteers.

In planning for the next RHoK event, which we have penciled in for sometime in the first half of June, we wanted to make a special call out to universities around the world to partner with us. So whether you are a student, a professor, represent a department or have ties to a university or college, send us a line so we can start the logistics machine as early as possible. Universities can provide space, internet, problem definition expertise in the areas of disaster risk management and climate change and have, to date, been phenomenal partners in all respects.

If you are tied to a university and have an interest in participating in the RHoK 3 hackathon, please let us know here by February 28th so that we can have logistics in place by the end of March.