Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) was a global community of technologists dedicated to solving problems for charities, non-profits and social enterprises by organising recurring hackathons.
[4] Panel attendees included Patrick Svenburg[5] of Microsoft, Phil Dixon[6] and Jeff Martin[7] of Google and Jeremy Johnstone[8] of Yahoo!.
The World Bank's Disaster Risk Reduction Unit (Stuart Gill) and NASA's Open Government team (Robbie Schingler) joined the partnership and these "founding partners" (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, NASA and the World Bank)[10] decided on the name "Random Hacks of Kindness" for their first event.
An innovation incubator in the area of sustainable development, SecondMuse[11] acts as "operational lead" for Random Hacks of Kindness,[3] coordinating global volunteer efforts, facilitating collaborative partnerships, and managing communications and branding.
[13][14][15][16] FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate gave the keynote[17] and made a call to action to the developers to apply their creativity to the challenges and featured hacks.
Featured projects were[19] Tweak the Tweet was used during the Haiti earthquake response in January 2010[21] The second RHoK event was held at the Microsoft Chevy Chase offices in Washington DC on June 4–6, 2010.
[27] While the Washington, DC RHoK was the "main stage", several other locations hosted satellite events at the same time,[22] including Oxford England, Jakarta Indonesia, Sydney Australia, Nairobi Kenya, São Paulo Brazil, and Santiago Chile.fd The "winning" hack at the Washington DC event was a new interface on CHASM (Combined Hydrology and Stability Model),[28][29] a system to make landslide predictions.