RFE/RL Hackathon

Innovation for Independent Media

6⁠–7 March 2021
HubHub Palac ARA in Prague

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The RFE/RL Hackathon is a 24-hour event bringing together journalists, coders and designers to innovate and build digital prototypes in support of media freedom. The Hackathon will be held on September 6th and 7th at HubHub Palac ARA in Prague.

RFE/RL journalists report the news in 22 countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established. We provide what many people cannot get locally: uncensored news, responsible discussion, and open debate.

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Judges & Mentors

Šárka Štrossová

CEO at WebExpo

Jozef Vodička

Developer Experts European Lead at Google

Tomáš Fidler

Senior Service Engineer at Microsoft

Kaarmanbek Kuluev

Senior Social Media Producer at Current Time TV

Nikolaos Chrysaidos

Head of Mobile Threats & Security at Avast

David Bečvařík

Solutions Architect at Red Hat

Dagmar Caspe

Project Coordinator at Prague Media Point

Jaroslav Anděl

Curator and Lecturer at Anglo-American University

Schedule

17.00

Registration

18.00

Opening

18.25

Mapbox keynote

Konstantin Käfer

18.35

Microsoft keynote

Tomáš Fidler

18.45

Themes introduction

19.00

Putting the teams together

19.15

Dinner and networking

20.00

Docker Prague Community session

David Bečvařík

Seznam.cz design session

Tomáš Barták

iROZHLAS.cz data journalism session

Jan Cibulka

20.30

Begin hacking

23.00

Group check in

9.00

Breakfast

9.30

Group check in

13.00

Lunch

15.00

Hacking ends

15.30

Prepare presentations

16.30

Presentations

18.45

Winners

19.00

Closing

20.00

Party and networking

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Don't hesitate, the number of participants is limited!