Two Days of Random Hacks of Kindness Hacking Kicks off in Washington, D.C.

Geeks to the rescue!  I love it!

Lessons…

Yes, real help will come to real people, but something else to be learned from this is that because of the terrible tragedies that spark events like this, technology will be advanced.  ”At a RHoK hackathon, new technologies are born, existing platforms are built upon, and innovative new ideas attract attention and support.” -Kamran Abdi

According to Daniel Pink, “We think that the only reason people do productive things is to snag a carrot or avoid a stick.  But that’s just not true.  Our third drive – our intrinsic motivation – can be even more powerful.” (Wired Magazine, June 2010, “The Great Cognitive Surplus,” p. 131).