Fighting a Global Crisis

August 20, 2020

Global tech community standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Belarus - tangible solutions built from scratch within 48 hours in a weekend hackathon marathon

The Global Hack

“At times of crisis, there is nothing more powerful than people coming together for one cause. While most of the Belarusians stood on the streets in peaceful protest,The Global Hackinvited the global tech community to come together online to build solutions for a better future for Belarus. The event participants worked with four topics: civil…

May 21, 2020

Hack the Crisis movement comes together to support early-stage teams fighting Covid-19

By The Global Hack

With the European Commission’s support of the matchathon, hundreds of teams participated in speed dates on Talque platform during 24 hours. They had a chance to talk with experts such as the VP of Facebook Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, Joseph (JD) D'Cruz from the United Nations Development Programme, many others and exchanged ideas with each other…

May 18, 2020

By students, for students: The teenagers behind InsideScoop are taking charge of their education

By Jae Jensen

In April 2020, 91% of the world’s students were out of school. This works out to 1.6 billion future entrepreneurs, doctors, presidents, artists, etc. While many adults struggle to adapt to the challenges of working from home, students have had their own difficulties in a new, remote education system. They become distracted and disengaged more…

May 13, 2020

From Hackathons to Matchathons: going from sparking ideas to keeping them fired up!

By Bjorn-Soren Gigler, PhD Senior Digital Innovation Officer at European Commission

We just completed with the absolutely amazing support of more than 500 volunteers the EUvsVirus hackathon which brought together more than 20,000 participants and produced more than 2,000 projects. The German WirvsVirus hackathon was truly impressive by attracting more than 42,000 participants, generating more than 1,900 projects and putting in…