In the commemoration of
the 3rd anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan, Hack the Climate will stage
its first ever Clean Technology Hackathon and Training happening in Palo, Leyte
and Tacloban City. It is part of the 8th NICP ICT Summit 2016, in
partnership with the National ICT Confederation of the Philippines (NICP), DOST
Region 8, Philippine Science High School – Eastern Visayas Campus, Seed4com,
Move.ph, Millenia Suites, ThinkLab and Unionbank of the Philippines.
Hack the Climate is a
climate change themed Hackathon that is formed out of the desire of a two
Princeton University College Students, named Michael Lanchanski and Jacob
Scheer to help the Philippines in their battle for climate change through
Technology and Innovation. With the help
of their Filipino counterparts, Elaine Cedillo, Diego Jose Ramos and Rizzel
Jill Dy, Hack the Climate was born in June 2013.
“Hack the Climate in Leyte is our 5th since we started and we
hope that we can bring this project across the country” said Elaine Cedillo,
the lead project coordinator for this leg. “Hack
the Climate is more than just a hackathon, it is our advocacy. Educating the
students and young professionals about the adverse effects of climate change
while challenging the developers to create a solution for climate change
adaptation or mitigation, and through that, the participants are empowered to
do something to help our environment,” she added
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| Founder with Gina Lopez |
THE CLEAN TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS AND THE HACKATHON
This year’s Hackathon is
dubbed as “Hack the Climate Cleantech-Loban” and it will be a three-part event.
They will be launching their first solar e-Learning facility for Alternative
Learning System and a Solar Night Lamp assembly livelihood training program for
the out-of-the school youth and partner NGO’s, plus a conference – hackathon
about Climate Change Mitigation and CleanTech.
Philippine Toy Library
located at Palo District 1, Barugo Leyte with more than 100 learners and at Pambujan,
Samar with more than 90 learners will be the beneficiaries of an e-Learning
set-up consisting of laptops from Huawei Philippines powered by solar panels
which will be donated by Unionbank of the Philippines through their Go Beyond
CSR. The Solar Night Lamp that will be
produced during the training will be donated to a fishing community in and
around Tacloban.
The hackathon, a
coding marathon, happening on November 9-10, 2016 at Philippine Science High
School in Palo, Leyte, involves a specific theme where participants will be
creating web or mobile applications, or hardware solutions. The conference happening
simultaneously with the hackathon features speakers to educate
and enlighten the audience to what is happening with our environment and how it
affects each and every one of us, and different technologies which can be used
to help in creating solutions.
Clean
Techloban is supported by the Ramos Peace and Development Foundation, Inc. and
the OML Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management
Foundation, Inc. and organized by Redwizard Events Management. For more
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