What will really happen is the unquestionable experience, a hackathon and think tank is a great way to come up with unimaginable ideas for hacks, experiments and solutions. With great local organizations as partners, the Hague, Hivos, TodaysArt, Amnesty, Pax, Border Sessions, any many more.
On Thursday, 22 September 2016, professionals in the fields of peace, justice and security will meet coders, developers, artists, philosophers and designers during the third edition of WTHX.
WTHX (‘WhatTheHacks’) is a crossover between a hackathon and a think tank and will take place in the city centre of The Hague.
How to get hacks for a better and more just world
In small multidisciplinary teams more than 100 thinkers and makers will assemble for twelve hours of ideation and co-creation during which they will formulate questions and prototype potential solutions for tomorrow’s problems. An integrated programme led by experts will provide depth to broaden ideas and views and stimulate the participants to come up with fresh answers. WTHX stimulates curiosity, expands new imagery and triggers participants into realizing new solutions and collaborations.
A hackathon works because
After 48 hours people remember:
10% of what they read,
20% of what they heard,
30% of what they saw and
90% of what they did.
Put these things together: for great impactful hacks
- Three expert dialogues of 50 minute from the field
- Six 40 minute prototyping workshops with different people together
And you get results like:
- Six workshops x 20 teams = more than 100 new concepts!
- Six workshops x 120 participants = more than 700 sparking epiphanies!
“I have been waiting for such an event that mixes people and sectors for a long time. Everyone is working in his own niche with its own logic. At WTHX we tested this logic for its value in society. The results were unexpected and unsought for.”
– Sabine Hengeveld (IT expert + (h)activist)
Some of the speakers and guests that inspire the hacks
Marek Tuszynski, a critical thinker that believes that ‘everything is going to be fine’, or at least that’s what his story is about: perspectives on data politics and visualization. He’s from Info Activism, a technology initiative with advocates & activists to use information & digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy work.
"The black is civilians that have been killed in #Iraq, the map is taken away" marek Tuszynski #data #visualisation pic.twitter.com/xPmeXHJ3i3
— Eloise Smith-Foster (@EloiseSmithFost) May 8, 2015
Dr. Anne de Jong‘s research interest at the University of Amsterdam centers on violence, conflict, human rights and social movements. Focusing on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, she strongly rejects the assumed neutrality of academia and activism as separate spheres of conduct. As such, her work aims to bridge the divide between research-based knowledge, policy making and social change from below.
Claudio Guarnieri aka Nex, hacker, artist, security researcher, human rights advocate. Technologist at Amnesty and Fellow at Citizenlab. He goes online as nex.
First speakers #WTHX3 Marek Tuszynski of @Info_Activism, Paolo Ciuccarelli of @densitydesign and Jonas Staal of @newworldsummit. Be there!
— WTHX.org (@WTHXorg) August 15, 2016
Find all confirmed speakers and guests on the website: wthx.org
6 reasons why you should get a ticket (which is only €20)
- provides a stage where ideas and opinions can be presented freely and without hierarchy;
- brings first-hand, new ideas by great thinkers from many fields of expertise;
- is a meet up where your skills are undisputed, the focus is on how you want to use them;
- bursts with talks and discussions to think, share and make;
- is the place to interact with designers, hackers, researchers, business executives, new media artists, lawyers, biohackers, developers, officials, activists, data scientists, aid workers, life-coders, brain hackers, entrepreneurs etc.;
- is where you can test and prototype your ideas on the spot
Get your ticket here.
A look back what at the Hacks happened at #1 and #2
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