Techies for social cause to join FreedomHack'15 at InMobi

BENGALURU: InMobi is celebrating this I-Day with FreedomHack'15 at its office in Bengaluru.  The mobile advertising company has associated with the NGO, The/Nudge Foundation to organize this Hackathon for a social cause. FreedomHack’15 will focus on sustainable poverty alleviation. The first time the event will bring together best engineering minds of the country to solve large social challenges in society.

While the concept remains similar to most hackathons, FreedomHack’15 will bring together programmers and software engineers to create practical solutions towards the challenges being faced by nonprofit organizations across India. Based on inputs from NGOs like Rang De, Swasti, Head Held High, Morph.org and Swasth, the key themes for FreedomHack’15 include healthcare, life-skills, livelihoods, education and crowd-funded microfinance.

Participants in FreedomHack’15 are expected to solve problems like creating a platform for crowd-funded microfinance, which can facilitate underprivileged young adults to undergo a program aimed at poverty alleviation.

“FreedomHack’15 will provide an interesting opportunity to use technology for impacting society at a large scale. This is a great platform for engineers to give back to society,. Hackathon is expected to attract top technical talent from organizations like Flipkart, Amazon, Google and LinkedIn,” said Peeyush Ranjan, CTO and Head of Engineering, Flipkart.

“We are all aware of how technology is solving some real-world problems. FreedomHack’15 is an extension of this belief. It is so inspiring to see techies volunteering their time and engineering talent to make an impact on society’s most critical needs like sustained poverty alleviation,” said Atul Satija, Founder and CEO, The/Nudge Foundation.

“FreedomHack’15 presents a unique opportunity to give back to the society. InMobi is thrilled to be sponsoring such a initiative where the best technical minds in India will be able to directly impact millions of lives. This initiative sets a benchmark for the use of technology for social causes,” said Mohit Saxena, CTO, InMobi.