{"id":63,"date":"2022-07-22T08:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T08:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/hack\/?post_type=story&p=63"},"modified":"2022-08-25T18:02:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T18:02:12","slug":"hack2018","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/hack.indigitous.org\/impact\/hack2018\/","title":{"rendered":"#HACK2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

#HACK2018 saw 600 participants in over 30 locations come together for missional innovation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Moldova<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Participants at #HACK Chi\u0219in\u0103u met in two locations to collaborate on three challenges, the Library CMS Challenge, the Gospel Storytelling Challenge, and the Street Child Challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The city lead for #HACK Chi\u0219in\u0103u decided to use the event not just to mobilize Christians for missions, but also to reach students who didn\u2019t yet know Jesus. Through outreach, he helped people know God and helped Christians in attendance practice sharing their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salvador, El Salvador<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Twelve people formed two teams working on projects of missional importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Thirty attendees worked on five different projects that tackled issues such as mental health, global aid, and more. One project, called Late News, focused on bringing the Gospel to persecuted areas with no access to the Internet. \u201cGod worked miracles this week and it\u2019s been really special for us, experiencing everything God is doing as a way for us to be sure that He is with us,\u201d says city lead Adryana Diniz. \u201cGod is blessing us because we are doing something important for the church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Panama<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Participants at #HACK Panama City worked on two projects, including a personality test that uses the Jesus Film, a project that was started at the previous year\u2019s event. For city lead Selegna D\u00edaz, one of the highlights was having participants from two different missionary organizations. \u201cIt brought a lot of good ideas of how to work together as a body of Christ,\u201d Selegna says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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San Francisco\/Silicon Valley\/Bay Area, USA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Those who attended the event in Silicon Valley met in a local church\u2019s co-working space, made to serve the community through allowing events like this. Attendees had two seperate tracks from which to choose, taking part in the hackathon or taking part in a design sprint to build prototypes to help Foster the Bay provide a loving home for every child in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modesto, USA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sixteen Modesto participants finished a project that began at the previous year\u2019s #HACK event, creating a highly secure one-way communication platform for missionaries in secure countries. At the end of the #HACK, they had a working Minimum Viable Product to use and test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Louisville, USA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Those who took part in #HACK Louisville were the first to use a new yet-to-open coworking space. While at the new venue, they worked on a project to gain a greater understanding of food insecurity within the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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London, UK<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

120 participants gathered for Kingdom Code BUILD, part of #HACK, and formed 23 teams working on projects such as a way to track your weekly spending and suggest a 10% tithe to a charity of your choosing, a Bible story app that presents the narrative in a more modern and engaging way, and a Bible reading project that uses a virtual garden that grows or withers based on your reading engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hilversum, Netherlands<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the Netherlands, participants collaborated on two projects, including a game for a Knowing God website in the Netherlands that can be used by churches, schools. The 30-second game offers \u201ca really small step to faith,\u201d says city lead Jacob Vis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nairobi, Kenya<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Twenty participants, most of whom were attending #HACK for the first time, collaborated on three projects, including a project to connect patients to doctors using Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lom\u00e9, Togo<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Among the projects worked on at #HACK Lom\u00e9 was a mobile library of content to act as a bridge between villages through the sharing of testimonies, music, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lagos, Nigeria<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The attendees of #HACK Lagos collaborated with those at #HACK Jos on the three projects listed above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Uganda, Kenya and DRC<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

27 participants from Uganda, Kenya, and the DRC collaborated on three missional projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jos, Nigeria<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Those who attended #HACK Jos worked on projects such as the Walking With Jesus Bible Study App, AskBuddy \u2014 a question-driven mentorship app, and the Dwell in the Word Bible Game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

At #HACK Addis, 40 young digital practitioners took part in the hackathon, working on projects such as a Bible App based on blockchain technology. Prior to the event, the local Indigitous team shared about the vision of Indigitous for an hour on a private TV station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abidjan, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Ten students and young professionals at #HACK Abidjan worked on a discipleship app and a video explaining the Four Spiritual Laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Melbourne, Australia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

#HACK Melbourne worked on four projects, including AI to give language coaching for missionaries and a project to provide free water to impoverished areas, and digital Gospel tracts in 59 languages. \u201cGod got the right people here for the projects that we\u2019re doing,\u201d says city lead Joshua Montzka. \u201cWhen you bring together people who are passionate about technology and passionate about the Lord, there\u2019s a desire for it not to end,\u201d says Michael, a first-time attendee. \u201cI\u2019m excited to see how this can develop into an effective combination of faith, technology, and passion for the Kingdom beyond just short-term projects,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auckland, New Zealand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Participants at #HACK Auckland worked on two exciting projects focused on the Pacific islands. The first was building a website for Great Commission Ministries to serve the people of Papua New Guinea. They also created a \u201cstanding order form,\u201d a software service that allows local ministries to print on top of a PDF form for submitting automatic payments. The second was Pukapuka Visual Bible Story, creating an audio and visual version of a Bible story in Pukapuka, a minority language in the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auckland, New Zealand<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Participants at #HACK Auckland worked on two exciting projects focused on the Pacific islands. The first was building a website for Great Commission Ministries to serve the people of Papua New Guinea. They also created a \u201cstanding order form,\u201d a software service that allows local ministries to print on top of a PDF form for submitting automatic payments. The second was Pukapuka Visual Bible Story, creating an audio and visual version of a Bible story in Pukapuka, a minority language in the Cook Islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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