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What to expect at Random Hacks of Kindness?
Montréal CanadaJune 1 – 3, 2012
@rhokMtlhttp://www.rhok.org/event/montréal-canada-0
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In Support of UNICEF Québec
•UNICEF has a long history of innovation, developing products that it has either invented or taken to scale. •In recent years, though, it has implemented a growing series of “Innovation Labs” at the field level. Its first two labs were created in Kosovo and Uganda in 2010, and the model has gradually been unrolled to a series of other countries.
•We are aiming to create a link between UNICEF in Canada, and field offices.
In Support of UNICEF Québec
UNICEF Canada Areas of Priority
1. Fundraising
2. AdvocacyChild Survival
Child Protection
HIV and AIDS
Emergencies
Education
Policy Advocacy andPartnerships for Children’sRights
Join a Project from the Montréal Event Page or Bring your own to the event!
UNICEF Priorities. Your own idea/project!
If you have a project, and are looking for teammates, post your project here:
http://www.rhok.org/problems
Send an email to [email protected] so we can then add the project to the Montréal event page.
Join a Project Or Bring Your Own
PROJECT IDEAS RELATED TO UNICEF PRIORITIES
Fundraising:Learn about PlayMob’s API, incorporate it into a new game or an existing game
Advocacy:Access to Clean Water on First Nations reserves: Mapping + Survey + game for
children.
Education:Landmines: 3D simulation, augmented reality + mobile phonesSustainability: Child Friendly Cities.
Your Ideas!
Join a Project Or Bring Your Own
Project E.g. : Mine Risk Education for Children using 3D Game
Landmines are a serious risk in around 35 countries worldwide. To face this threat humanitarian NGOs use two complementary methods:
The demining: which is very important, risky and expensive, it basically mean removing landmines and unexploded ordnance from fields to make them safe.
Mine awareness / education: which is any action of teaching at risk population of their danger and how to avoid them in order to avoid casualties.
In some heavily contaminated countries like Iraq or Cambodia, demining would take decades and cost several million$! so Mine awareness is only way to stop further casualties while cleaning the lands from danger.
Although the demining has advanced in last 30 years (use of robots, trained dogs and mice to "smell" minefields)
educational methods didn't benefit from advance in technology to transmit safety message in more effective way, and still use leaflet, drawing and other medium that are not effective in communicating with children.
IDEA: 3D educational video game for children, to learn about danger of landmines and cluster munitions, by playing a simulation inside virtual world and learning to recognize them and how to avoid them and more importantly through a simulation understand various situation where he may encounter the danger.
See http://www.rhok.org/problems/eviltoys-mine-risk-education-children-using-3d-game
GitHub: Search for rhokMtl. We have private repositories for 125 teams.
Unity: Free Pro licenses available now! Register to get the code.
Api Documentation: will be available before the event.
Tools/Resources
It is free! Check Eventbrite for the most up to date schedule. June 1 (evening): 5@7 with guest speakers. Team
formation. June 2 – 3 : Workshops, Brainstorming, Prototyping,
Designing. June 3 (afternoon): Submission deadline,
presentations, feedback from judges.
The Main event
Your Laptop, power bar, power cords, demo equipment,
Camera, webcam, headphones Smile and an open mind Coffee mug
What to bring?
Concordia UniversityEV Building, 11-7251515 St Catherine West.
Questions? [email protected]
Where is RHoK Montréal?
Judging Criteria and prizes will be posted one week before the event.
A panel of judges from the games industry and international development community will play your game and determine the winners.
You must present your project on Sunday afternoon to qualify for a prize.
How does Judging/Prizes Work?
UStream: Username: rhokMtlTwitter: @rhokMtlYoutube: rhokMtl
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