Hackers? For Charity?
In general, a hacker is “a skilled computer expert that uses their technical knowledge to creatively overcome a problem”. We are hackers (most of us security experts) that use our superpowers to make the world a better place. We highlight projects and acts of service and help flatten the learning curve so you can join us.
-Francis of Assisi
-Vince Lombardi
-James Green Somerville
Recent Stories
Former Street Girls and Robotics – Mirembe Girls, Uganda
We are so grateful from the young ladies from Just Cause Uganda, who came all the way from Canada to train this great group of former homeless ("street") girls in our Jinja, Uganda hackerspace. Here's their blog entry from the last week [...]
First class for former Ugandan homeless (“street”) girls
We’re proud to announce our first robotics course designed especially for Ugandan girls! In this class, we brought in former homeless (“street”) girls from Mirembe Cottage for Street Girls (http://www.sonriseministriesinc.org/mirembecottage). We worked alongside Sarah and Michelle from http://www.justcausecanada.org. The class was such [...]
Outernet, LittleBits, Farmers, RasPi, Pains of Fast Internet- All the things
It’s been a crazy couple of days. I can hardly keep up. Sorry in advance that this post is so scatterbrained. First, we have a new line on Internet service. It’s not public so I can’t talk too much about it, but [...]
High-contrast, high-tech: Uganda’s first Outernet node!
We have some pretty wickedly cool things going on in Uganda right now, and I managed to capture the essence of it with photos. The small dish on the left hand side is our UTL nano bridge for our Internet. The workers [...]
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