List of hackathons about non-profit in 2017

Hackers in Bahrain! Are you interested in using technology for the global good? You're invited to join like-minded people around the world in the Connect2Effect - UN Hackathon. This event will challenge you to become a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) entrepreneur and work to help to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all by 2030. Hackathon winners will be invited to present their work at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

Hackers in Newark and New Jersey! Do you have ideas on how technology can help improve personal safety for women? The City of Newark's Office of Information and Technology invites you to sign up to participate in the Women’s Safety Hackathon. You'll have three months to create a demonstration technology that that will improve safety for women in Newark. The winner will receive prize monies to build out a prototype for deployment and for one year's maintenance.

Women hackers in and around Paris! Led By HER -- the French social incubator -- invites you to sign up to participate in the Led By HER Hackathon 2017 # HACKLBH2017. You'll be challenged come, contribute and hopefully help make a difference for women's entrepreneurial opportunities! Just come and choose your project, collaborate with a small team to turn it into a reality, and then pitch it to a jury of sponsors!

Designers, makers, hackers -- anyone interested in renewable energy solutions! Want to help make a difference to rural communities that do not have access to reliable lighting other than dangerous kerosene lamps? You're invited to sign up to participate in a Solar Hackathon. Your challenge will be to collaborate on the design of robust flat pack solar lantern that can be manufactured and assembled in African countries.

Hackers and open data enthusiasts in the Greater Nashville area! Are you planning to participate in the upcoming Public Health Hackathon in Nashville? That's great! So you should plan to attend this pre-hackathon training workshop and learn how to use the web-based Mappler tool to develop an interactive map to visually display open data sets. You'll also be introduced to the open data sets for the Metro Nashville area.

Students in Hong Kong! #WeCodeBusiness invite you to sign up to participate in the E.C. Jamming - Hackathon. You'll be challenged to work on a technology project that can help enrich the lives of student. You'll be expected to work in teams and to collaborate to achieve your goals. You don't need to be a techie to take part -- all university students from all faculties are welcome.

Do you have a passion for open data projects? Open Source Hong Kong invites you to sign up to participate in the Open Data Day 2017 Hong Kong Hackathon. You can help grow the open data community by working on projects such as open research data, protecting the environment with open data, and using open data to improve the lives of Hong Kong residents. Come and showcase your creative and technical skills to collect, visualize, and analyze data.

Designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policymakers, students, communications strategists! Civic Tech Toronto invites you to sign up to participate in the CodeAcross Toronto 2017 hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate with like minded individuals to leverage open data sets to create innovative solutions to problems facing cities, non-profits and community groups. You'll get to address your choice of problem from a set that includes: »The Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development (MAESD) wants to create a tool to help job seekers better understand which degrees lead to which occupations and salaries. »The City of Toronto’s Transportation Big Data Innovation Team is looking for an interactive dashboard to tell the story of traffic speeds in Toronto. »The Landlord and Tenant Board of Ontario is looking for a simple, easy to navigate platform that allows the parties (the landlord or tenant) to communicate with each other.

Techies and just regular folks in the Stockport area! Are you interested in the use of technology to sift through a mass of data, comments, complaints. and enquiries about Stockport, in order to distill a cohesive view of what matters to its citizens? Do you have ideas on how to make it easier for residents of Stockport to connect with the things they care about? Stockport Council invites you to sign up to participate -- on your own or in a team -- in the Stockport Hackathon 2017. Collaborate and compete to use open data to improve Stockport's municipal government services, create new ones, and empower its residents.

Open democracy techies in the greater Paris area! Open Democracy Now invites you to sign up to participate in the Hackathon Nuit du Code Citoyen (Paris). You'll be challenged to utilize your skills to improve the OGP toolbox -- expending it to support other cities and other themes, such as supporting new independent media.