 This is Purnima Kanan, she is from India, and you are a physicist but you are also the more selfless person on communication. And she is going to talk about hacking for humanity. This is my first public talk and I am nervous. I just wanted to share my journey with the random acts of kindness. Actually I am a mother of three kids, my eldest one is 24. I did my MSE and I took a break for almost 12 years or so, then got back on track. I do freelance PR for a theatre group which works on sustainability for random acts of kindness. And I have been a media coordinator for a tree festival for three consecutive years. Because what basically? I do basically. And I wanted to share my journey with random acts of kindness. So my passion is going on nature trails and my interest is on bees, butterflies and trees. So on one of the butterfly trails I met Shinwai one of the Arachoke, one who is actively in Arachoke town. So she went on to become one of the global trust members of Arachoke. She participated in a hackathon, started as a participant and now she is heading the Arachoke. So I was basically interested in the issues which they touched upon. Basically hackathon is not just technical. What we do is a global community of makers and hackers who give open source solutions for social good. So this is Shinwai's this one in India. She developed this app called Bachao app which where the mobile was used to record evidence. Because without evidence you can't file a case. So this went on to be huge, I mean this had a huge usage, many users used it because of the rape case which followed it. And then now she is heading the Bachao project which provides open source solutions for gender. Basically last year we had a hackathon based on gender violence against women with the US consulate in Calcutta. We work with civic organizations because basically we feel that there are a lot of people who are working in pockets. And we provided a platform where they could come and share ideas. So a group called Durka came and shared their experience on bystander intervention. Bystander intervention is suppose you see a person, a woman being ragged or being missing. How can a bystander as an outsider go and defuse the situation in a peaceful way, in a nice way. Then we touched upon, there was an organization which worked on garbage. Till this day we didn't know that burning garbage increased the air pollution. Those were some of the learnings which we shared in that citizenry day. Then biodiversity, a civic organization talked about how to use a frog app to record or to identify frogs. So recording the biodiversity or the citizens to observe nature around them is a very important thing. So the newt is that some species is dying or some species could be discovered also. Disability, we have done some solutions on accessibility. One of the hackathons we developed a solution where a visually impaired will know which buses come into the bus stop. So this prototype was created in two days, a team of four worked on it and we accelerated this. Twitter supported this project. Urbanization, there was one community in Indranagar which opposed rapid commercialization in there. Because most of the residential buildings were being converted to commercial pubs and bars and a lot of noise in the neighborhood. So they went on to file a case and they shared the learning so that the other areas would benefit from that. So the basic idea of conducting a citizenry day was to share instead of learning from the scratch. If we share our learnings we grow faster. Air pollution, one person Mr. Tejesh, he taught us how to build an air pollution monitor from the scratch using cheap hardware. So till then otherwise we wait for data from UNICEF or we wait for data to come in from an organization. So if you monitor it by yourself you know how bad or you know the air pollution levels. So the main story of R.H.O.P. is it was started in a crisis camp in 2009 where the employees of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and World Bank came together to build solutions. Because NASA had a lot of data and they didn't know what to do. So the first outcome was during the disaster management during the Patti earthquake in 2010. And what would have taken three weeks to aggregate the Twitter feeds with the help of one solution, they could do it in a day. So we did this program with 25 children from lower class students in India. So 25 girls, what we did was we improved them, we worked with them for seven days. We taught them social media, social skills like team building and analyzing the root cause of the problem. So these girls lived in slums so with the help of open street maps they marked the issues like water, sewage, garbage and things like that. And to identify what was the root cause of the problem and to find solutions. So at the end of seven days they were able to work in a team and present their learnings on a website using Thimble. So that was something really great where Target supported us on this program. And it was a huge learning for them because they especially this age around 12 to 15 is a very impressionable age where they just go to a shell and they don't open up. So these are some of the drawings which the girls did during the program. This is about overcrowding in cities. They use a fish bowl diagram to find the root cause and at the end of seven days they were confident and it was really great to see how a program like this could ignite sparks in these girls and how confident they were to tackle you know more it is you know feeling more self confident and self reliant that they could bring a change in their own communities. So they built a water filter out of whatever was available I mean a simple water filter and yeah. So in the beginning I showed you the bee and the butterfly right. So one of the outcomes was to monitor hives you know that bees are rapidly declining and bee collapse disorder is happening right. So bee colony collapse. So this is one of the apps that has been created to monitor the hives. Otherwise the conventional method we lose about 5% of the bees. So this is a better way where we do it without minimum damage to the hives. Then we do have another I mean there are numerous apps or this one which makes life better. This is an app developed by the Belgium team which reminds the HIV and TB patients to get their appointments to get their medicines or their checkups done on time. Because as you know that medicines if they are not taken in time TB virus becomes more resilient and it might be incurable. So this is an appointment reminder. It's one of the latest hacks. So advantages of civic hacking are it creates space for innovations because people from different capacities come and hack together it makes more sense. Creativity comes out and then it engages digital citizens to get involved in government policies. Then it creates a broad network of civic hackers for social good and then in a company you find that I mean I'm not telling you won't get creative solutions. If you mix with different people from different backgrounds the creativity is faster and is cheaper. Hackacons. That's it. So we have our presence in Australia, India, South Africa, Canada, USA and UK. So we would like to have communities working in Southeast Asia as well. So if you're interested you can get in touch with me or you can send a mail to this address. That's it. Thank you. Any questions? Yes. In each of those countries do you have a team? We have teams. So what if you go to another country in Southeast Asia, what would be the expectation on the law? Expectations you have to take ownership. First what we do is we partner with an NGO. Instead of just arbitrarily calling people to come let's do a hack of government. First we work with an NGO, get a problem statement, then see which subject matter experts can solve the problem, bring them to the platform. We provide a platform for the subject matter experts and the NGOs to have a conversation and form a prototype first. And at the end of two days after the prototype is done we bring in corporates to take it for the accident. So is it funded by the corporations? Each time it's different. Suppose Microsoft is interested in accessibility. So they'll be interested. We'll tell them in advance that if this happens would you want to... So you just hope for finding the sponsors and then... You can ask the question. How much does it cost? Hackathons don't cost anything. It's only the prototype when we accelerate. That is when corporates come in. It's just zero budget to conduct hackathons. So we basically... I conducted a hackathon in Bangalore where when you was provided by somebody, a friend. Food was provided by another friend who runs a restaurant. And the venue had internet access for two days. For social good they do it for free. So once the prototype was formed we tried to connect with the sponsors and... I mean the corporates sent me. What was your email again? For people emailing you to help? Yeah. I gave you my card. Can you talk a little bit more about the ten types of hackathons in the foundation? For the body but I don't know much about them. Yeah. So that's what I said. I will give you some more time. So we can get in touch to get more details. So it's like anybody can take ownership and... You know if you have a problem to solve you can just take it up as a day. This issue I think we need to solve this issue. Is it possible to have a tech solution? Come with me. Yes? I have a question. So it's like if you want to solve issues, issues are complex and related to each other. So at least sensitizing people and... You can take a step at a time. If you can solve your air pollution issue. I am aware that it is bad day in my area as a bad day. You can do at least a little. You and your neighbors should do something about it. Participation. Maybe most of you are aware of my fact. Do you have a catwalk of all the activists that have happened so far? So that we can look at historically what... Yeah, okay. We have. We have them. And also the... I run any kind of law system as well. Exactly what is your... How do you bring people... So do you identify the problem? I think we will identify a problem. So how do you identify the problem? No, we have basically... We have not this intensity. And then what is the expectation that you will be able to solve something within a short period of time? We will try to solve. But we don't promise that it's not possible. It's not in our hands to... Which is all that we really have. Thank you for being such a nice colleague. The first question is...