Seismic response
Earthquakes
Explore damage information, service continuity, safe mapping, accessibility, and recovery coordination without exposing affected people.
Natural-disaster hackathons
Join the cause. Let's hack together solutions.
We bring technologists, designers, translators, researchers, responders, and people with local knowledge together for focused one-week builds around documented disaster-response needs.
No future event is announced until its need, scope, dates, and participation details have been reviewed. Staying informed does not register you for an unscheduled event.
One focused week
Seven days from documented need to public handoff
Each event stays deliberately bounded: understand the need, build with safe data, review the work, and publish what others can inspect and improve.
Day 1
Understand
Review cited needs, constraints, safeguarding risks, and the people a tool is meant to serve.
Days 2–5
Build together
Form multidisciplinary teams and create scoped open-source tools using public, synthetic, or properly licensed data.
Day 6
Review responsibly
Test security, privacy, accessibility, documentation, limitations, and deployment assumptions.
Day 7
Demonstrate and hand off
Publish demonstrations, source code, evidence, limitations, and clear next steps for accountable adopters.
Natural-disaster focus
Build where natural disasters create urgent gaps
These are recurring focus areas, not promises of currently scheduled events. Each hackathon begins only after its real context has been reviewed.
Fire and smoke
Wildfires
Work on fire and smoke information, evacuation accessibility, community readiness, and recovery tools grounded in official sources.
Flood response
Floods
Support verified alerts, accessible risk communication, logistics, community reporting, and resilient recovery workflows.
Archive
Past hackathons
Completed events remain visible as public records, with their dates, context, projects, and limitations intact.
Past hackathon–
2026 Venezuela and Colombia earthquake response
Our longer inaugural event explored open-source responses to documented earthquake needs. It predates the new one-week format and is preserved without presenting its registration or submissions as open.
Stay in the loop
Be ready for the next one-week build
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