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Temat: Geeklist #hack4good 0.6 is coming! Ambassador sign up open! Data: poniedziałek, 9 czerwca 2014, 10:01:46 Od: Dan Cunningham
Hello Geeklist Ambassadors!
I’m very excited to announce that the next Geeklist #hack4good will take place worldwide this 12-14 September.
Based on a lot of your feedback, this time - for the first time - we have a strong theme.
We are uniting worldwide to address one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today, an issue that affects every single country, one that underpins many of our other challenges globally, and critically - one that we must unite together to solve on a global scale.
#hack4good 0.6 is a hack against climate change
Humans are the primary cause of climate change, and right now we are continuing to increase our fossil fuel emissions (in fact at an increasing rate). We continue to cut down forests. We continue to build coal power plants. And we continue to consume more and more resources.
This is leading us directly towards increasingly unthinkable and unmanageable scenarios - disastrous impacts on human health, livelihoods, agriculture, ecosystems, population displacement and loss of human and animal life.
Another future is possible.
We believe technology holds the key to rapid reversal in these trends: to educating people, to creating political will, to maximising the impact of existing movements, to stimulating the transition to a low-carbon economy, to getting organised and to really solving this problem!
Technology also has a huge role to play in adapting to the effects that we are already seeing worldwide - the heat waves, droughts, wildfires, flooding, increased extreme weather events which I know many of us have already been affected by. It’s in our hands to build solutions that create stronger communities and to help deal with these emergencies as well.
The time to act is now.
September 2014 is a critical time for the climate, with world leaders gathering in New York at Ban Ki-Moon’s UN Climate Summit. This must set the world on a path to a strong international agreement and commitment to decisively move to a low-carbon future.
From over 500 teams that will take part in #hackgood 0.6, we’ll be showcasing those teams and projects that have the greatest potential for impact - in New York - putting technology firmly at the forefront of a united human response to what may be the greatest single challenge of the 21st century.
I hope you and your city can be part of it.
If you haven’t already, sign up by next Friday, 20th June, to organise a #hack4good against climate change in your city at http://hack4good.io
Thanks!
- Dan
*P.S. Please forward this email on to anyone else you think would be interested to get involved with organising the event around the world!*
*P.P.S. Email or Skype me if you have any questions (my Skype name is djcunning)*