The question of how to interest more women in technology fields is one of the most important questions facing us today, for many reasons.
A recent hackathon sponsored by Autism Speaks once again proves that we are harnessing the power of wireless to change lives in powerful and creative ways.
In my mind, as a seed-stage investor, there is one much more straightforward way to source potentially great developneurs able to create seed-stage investment opportunities: joining a Hackathon.
Hackathons are quickly gaining recognition outside of the technology community. They attract and foster collaboration among people of different age groups, talents, backgrounds, goals, and geography, but the best part? It doesn't cost you anything to participate and what you gain at the end is priceless.
The weekend of April 27-28th, Los Angeles will be overrun with hackers participating in LA Hacks, powered by AngelHack.
Until recently, getting a full digital copy of D.C.'s laws was surprisingly difficult to do. The official version of the laws was available in an ...
It's a battle out there to find the top computer science students. How to find them and then get them interested in your company is a gigantic challen...
Philanthropy is well known for its jargon, but a look at the words of the year shows how much numbers and data are influencing the way people in the n...
The championship is decided by the total score of 10 runs of the game. You're up, then down, then up again. You've never been so on edge in your life.
More than ever before, strong and creative advocates and allies need to translate the power of information into a greater power for good. Miracles can come from the information revolution and its capacity to bring sunlight to topics that were long obscure.
We came up with the brilliant idea of teaching midnight yoga. Through thick and thin we have held fast to each other and the idea of giving the fitness industry a makeover.
We are sparking the imagination and entrepreneurial talent of the world to use the new mobile and computing technology to solve one of the world's most devastating problems.
Can an app make New York City greener? It can if it influences the little decisions that New Yorkers make every day -- things like recycling a bottle instead of throwing it in the trash, or biking to work instead of driving.
Can Good News Revive a City? A new media experiment is underway in Baltimore, Maryland to find out. Is it possible for media, used in right way, to make Baltimore internationally known as a cultural hotspot for artistic and intellectual pursuits?
I was left thinking the Cleanweb is a powerful concept with important implications for the future of clean technology and the environment. And with this weekend's hackathon, it is reaching takeoff velocity.
In July 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Commissioner Katherine Oliver announced that the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment would include NYC Digital. Last January, NYC Digital launched and we hit the ground running.
As Occupy Wall Street protests have swelled their ranks, organizers from the occupations realized they had a problem. No matter how many people partic...
What if we applied the popular hackathon concepts of user-feedback and iteration to create a new kind of technological storytelling?
Innovations in democratic governance have been and likely always will be a global phenomenon. In less than two weeks, an unprecedented bilateral codeathon will further extend the reach and collaborative flavor of the open government movement.
Hackers and computer wiz's gathered at General Assembly over the weekend for Reinvent NYC.gov, NYC's first "hackathon." In a 36-hour coding spree,...
Today is the last day to sign up for Reinvent NYC.GOV, the City's first-ever hackathon. Civic-minded designers and developers who want to help improve NYC government are encouraged to apply to reinventnycgov.com.
The hackathon had an amazing impact: A random group of about 10 people was able to create a rough demo of the SMS/web service in about eight hours, thanks to the awesome and skilled team.
Today, 50-plus journos, entrepreneurs and geeks are working under similar time constraints for the social benefit of New Yorkers.
The folks at crisiscommons.org and Crisis Camp are doing remarkable work, and the latest is wehaveweneed.org.If people in a crisis area, like Haiti, ...
