Sanitation Hackathon Challenges Developers to Solve Sanitation Problems

If you are bored with the many hackathon events that are often held in the last few months, the developers can pay attention to this one hackathon event. This event is interesting, because developers are not required to develop an application that has a commercial purpose. In this event, developers are asked to participate in providing solutions to problems faced by the world's population.

The Sanitation Hackathon challenges developers to solve real-world problems, in this case those related to sanitation, by using their skills in building an application. In order to better understand the sanitation problems faced by the world's population, developers are directed to cooperate with experts in the field and utilize the sources of knowledge provided by the organizers.

The Sanitation Hackathon is organized by the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank. This event will be held simultaneously on December 1-2, 2012 in various countries in the world. Besides Jakarta, the Sanitation Hackathon will also be held in Lahore (Pakistan), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Cape Town (South Africa), Dakar (Senegal), Lima (Peru), Manila (Philippines), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Pune ( India), Helsinki (Finland), London (UK), Hartford (United States) and various other places in North America.

Universitas Indonesia will host the Sanitation Hackathon in Indonesia. The event on December 1-2 will be held at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia in Depok. Previously, last October, two preliminary events were held to conduct brainstorming problems and possible solutions that will be realized in the form of applications.

There are several problems that are offered that developers can find a solution for in the form of an application. A theme entitled "change meFor example, asking developers to develop a mobile application to raise awareness of children to change their lifestyle to become more hygienic. Toilet, clean water and waste problems can also be found as a challenge to develop an application that can be a solution to these problems.

The concept of a similar event was once held in Indonesia in an event called Random Hack of Kindness (RHoK). On two occasions RHoK held in Jakarta, organizers challenge developers to develop solutions to humanitarian problems. RHoK is now also one of the supporters of this event.

So, if you have an idea to solve sanitation problem using information and communication technology, don't hesitate to register yourself in this event. You can register yourself via Eventbrite page here.