World Bank
Taarifa Hackathon Series
April – June, 2014
Cambridge, Mass – London, UK – Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The World Bank provides financial and technical assistance to developing countries in order to reduce poverty and support development.
The Taarifa Platform is an open source web API, designed to close citizen feedback loops. This hackathon series brought together software and hardware developers, designers, and data scientists to ready the API, dashboard, and SMS integration for deployment to the field.
Role
Organized and facilitated a 3-part hackathon series around open source infrastructure tracking and triage system Taarifa in Boston, London, and Dar es Salaam. The series brought together the open source code, hardware sensors, and data portal into a cohesive whole ready to be handed off to local maintainers and to train local users.
