{"id":2723,"date":"2012-07-25T19:13:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T23:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2012-07-25T19:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T23:13:45","slug":"new-geeks-without-bounds-memification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2012\/07\/25\/new-geeks-without-bounds-memification\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;Geeks Without Bounds&#8217;: sustainable geekery memification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geeks Without Bounds\">Geeks Without Bounds<\/a> is an inspiring Seattle-based group that I learned about through the Awesome Seattle foundation. Their work is similar in ways to NetHope and Benetech in terms of the sorts of networking and sustainability-review they hope to provide.  But they are primarily volunteer-run, founded in the work already supported by hacker spaces around the world.  <\/p>\n<p>They focus on making hackathons and prototypes for humanitarian tech work in practice &#8212; implemented through local practitioners, and embraced by active communities of develoeprs once they have proven their use. I wish them and their network-building success.  We need better circles of shared practice in this area of life! <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an introductory video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xq1vf8_geeks-without-bounds-enables-humanitarian-hackers_tech\">via Dailymotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geeks Without Bounds is an inspiring Seattle-based group that I learned about through the Awesome Seattle foundation. Their work is similar in ways to NetHope and Benetech in terms of the sorts of networking and sustainability-review they hope to provide. But they are primarily volunteer-run, founded in the work already supported by hacker spaces around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[211,6034],"tags":[60681,30831,2089,60682,60679,60680],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-meta","tag-benetech","tag-crisis-commons","tag-geekery","tag-gwob","tag-humaintarian","tag-nethope"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-HV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2725,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}