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Are you an entrepreneur, technologist or innovator? Have you ever wanted to impact your cities, circles and communities and solve problems that you see around you? If yes, don’t miss out on India’s first mission-based weekend Hackathon that kicks off on Oct 31, 2014!

Code for the Kingdom is a weekend Hackathon series and ongoing ecosystem where global issues are tackled from a Christian perspective. The movement hosts weekend gatherings in different cities where developers, designers, ideators and others collaborate to advance common good and serve God’s Kingdom.

Code for the Kingdom hosted its first-of-a-kind mission based weekend Hackathon in San Francisco last year. In the span of a year, the weekend event gathered momentum and members with weekend gatherings across Austin, Seattle and the San Francisco Bay Area. Now, for the first time, Code for the Kingdom is expanding beyond American shores and what better destination to connect technologists than Bangalore, India?

Join the top 100 leaders in the country as they collaborate with innovative non-profits and churches to write code and create technology to help release the oppressed, teach God’s word, heal the sick, feed the hungry, clothe the naked and support the church and the body of Christ.

This weekend event will focus the passion, purpose, and creativity of our entrepreneurial and creative community, connecting incredible innovators with organizations, and initiatives that need their talent. Join us in Bangalore, India as we battle the challenges confronting our communities, our society, our families, and our spiritual lives.

Event Theme

Register now to join us in Bangalore, India as we work to transform lives. Work closely and build new relationships with some of the most effective global ministries, technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, hi-tech accelerators, church leaders and creatives from every discipline.

WINNERS

Here are the winners.

Schedule

This venue will remain open around the clock. Participants are encouraged to utilize the facility and take advantage of the meals and healthy hacker activities day and night, if desired.

Meet with Mentors is a great opportunity to connect with industry experts who can guide you and your concepts. The organizers will help you connect with mentors of your choice on Friday/Saturday.

This venue will remain open around the clock. Participants are encouraged to utilize the facility and take advantage of the meals and healthy hacker activities day and night, if desired.

Challenges

Here are the challenges to get you started. Please remember that more challenges may be presented on the first day of the Hackathon. If you would like to discuss with potential team members, or even with the champions of these challenges, please join and leverage the Code for the Kingdom India Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/c4tkIndia.

In case you are already interested or working on a project, don’t change course. But please keep in mind that your project must be aligned with the spirit of the Hackathon. Please come prepared to pitch your project at the Hackathon so that you can recruit teams to work on them.

Stop violence against women and girls

How can technology help women and girls be safe and change the culture of violence?

According to UNICEF, 51% of men in India believe wife beating can be justified. And, incredibly enough 54.4% of women in India also believe in justified wife beatings. When violence justification is such a cultural belief, it is not a surprise that most women in India do not feel safe in public spaces. One rape happens every 30 minutes in India, according to the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.

There is no doubt that regardless of social-economic advances, stopping violence against women and girls requires spiritual and cultural transformation that only Jesus can bring. Jesus commands us to love our neighbor as ourselves. He said that is the second most important commandment, and it is that love that will stop the violence.

How can we help leverage technological advances so that all women and children in India can live freely without fear of crimes or atrocities against them? How can technology help alert, connect and protect God's precious people before any chance of crime can befall them? How can technology encourage men in India to stand against the violence towards women? How can technology help change a culture where neighbors commit acts of violence, condemnation, or indifference towards women, into a culture where neighbors love neighbors and protect the woman and girl down the street?

Champions

Resourcing people with disabilities

What if a person with disabilities could be aware of all resources, programs, facilities, and assistance which is available to them across all of India? How would that impact their lives and the lives of their families?

Champions

Games

How can technology bring the word of God to the mobile first generation of children?

Did you know that more than 80% of Christians choose Christ between the ages of 4-14? Children are the biggest mission field, and they have impressionable young minds that are fertile ground for the Word of God.

Build a mobile application to help children learn the word of God, bury it in their hearts and share it with their friends in a fun, interactive, and engaging way, using the platforms they're already using while making the Bible more "awesome" and "cool" than Angry Birds, Temple Run, and Candy Crush.

Champions

Mentoring

How can technology help create a new culture of mentoring that fosters stronger and deeper relationships and helps people find spiritual support where and when they need it?

Champions

The 12 - Your Personal Board of Directors

How can technology help every person build a team of trusted advisors to help them live a healthy life?

Champions

Prizes

This is not just a weekend where we code for the Kingdom. It's also a weekend where we celebrate the Kingdom. So register now for this amazing weekend where your ideas can win these awesome cash prizes and more!

CATEGORIES

• Rs. 50,000 for the Best Overall App or Site started at the event
• Rs. 50,000 for the Best Overall App or Site started prior to the event
• Rs. 25,000 for the Runner-up Overall App or Site started at the event
• Rs. 25,000 for the Runner-up Overall App or Site started prior to the event

AND EVEN MORE...

• Rs. 50,000 for the People's choice (voted by all participants across all submitted projects)
• Rs. 50,000 for the winner of the One Hope official challenge
• Rs. 50,000 for the winner of the Christian Vision official challenge

After the event, your creations will be featured in a Leadership Network Advance edition reaching over 50,000 church leaders worldwide.

API

At Code For The Kingdom, we value your precious time and don’t want you to reinvent the wheel. That’s why our sponsors have come forward to offer their API, in order to enable you to build better and faster. That said, please note that there is no compulsion that these API must be used or any other restrictions on technologies that you may use at the event,

We believe that these platforms may assist you as you create effective solutions to today’s problems. We have also instituted prizes for the best usage of the APIs our sponsors have provided. So leverage these API and the best resources around so that together, we can create something that matters.

Access digital Bible content in hundreds of languages. Free.

Easy access to Bible text, audio, and videos with simple API calls to the Digital Bible Platform. Become one of the few developers to provide Deaf Bible videos in your app.

Help Faith Comes By Hearing enhance the Digital Bible Platform for the developer community. Provide your feedback and in turn support enhancements for your apps.

During the event, this username and key will be active so developers can immediately use the API. If you want to continue using the API after the event you can sign up for your own key.

• Username: [email protected]
• Password: aN@UKkglWHFi
• Login URL: https://www.digitalbibleplatform.com/site/wp-login.php
• DBT Key: 37cd57f793b2ee221c1146f12df057e8

Biblia.com and Faithlife.com API.

Biblia.com API

http://api.biblia.com/docs/

The Biblia.com API provides access to information about available Bibles (Find, Image), access to text in those Bibles (Content), and the ability to find content within those Bibles (Search). Additional services support validating Bible references (Parse), comparing Bible references (Compare), and finding Bible references in text and HTML (Scan, Tag).

Faithlife.com API

https://developer.faithlife.com/

The Faithlife API provides Community and Accounts functionality. The Accounts API encompasses user and group data, such as a user’s role in a group or what groups a user is a member of, while the Community API encompasses all social interaction between accounts, such as messaging and commenting.

• If you plan to use both APIs, you’ll have to register with each independently.

Mentors

Meet with Mentors is a great opportunity to connect with industry experts who can guide you and your concepts. Schedule your sessions with mentors of your choice on Friday/Saturday and get connected.

Alwin Daniel
Development Manager, Christian Vision, India

Alwin Daniel has significant experience in design and developed of Software Solutions for the Web and Mobile devices. With over 15 years of experience in IT, Alwin believes that ‘Together we can!’. Alwin holds Master’s Degree in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan and currently works with Cisco Systems, India.

Chip Kingery
Founder Director at proVISION ASIA

Rev. Dr. Chip Kingery hails from the U.S.— an American by birth, but Indian by choice! He has lived in Asia for over 30 years; 25 of those in Bangalore— where he directed programs for World Hunger Relief. In 1986, Chip and Jean began proVISION ASIA, an NGO focused on all aspects of disability ministry: education, referrals for operations, provision of mobility aids, family and individual counseling, job-placement, physiotherapy and government advocacy. proVISION ASIA runs a school, Mithra Special School; and has created a wheelchair refurbishment unit in the Bangalore Central Prison— and will soon operate the first mobile diabetes clinic in south India. Their passion, along with 16 staff members here in Bangalore, is to give a hand up— not a hand out, to people with disabilities; and to provide Abundant Life for these friends

Derek Leavitt
Founder & CEO, Rhythmsy

Derek Leavitt is an Oxford MBA has been starting companies his entire life. He successfully sold his first company, Computer Essentials, when he was 24. His digital passions include crowdsourcing, design, and social media.

Kurian Babykutty
Director of Innovation, One Hope

Kurian Babykutty tells stories for a living, really. He helps Christian ministries and ventures tell their stories better and develop meaningful relationships with a loyal target audience. With almost a decade of online marketing experience around the world, Kurian currently serves as one hope�s director of innovation. He is a software engineer with an MBA degree in marketing from Babson college, Boston.

Phil Smith
Development Manager, CV, Australia

Phil Smith is passionate about helping people achieve goals for their online products. With 10 years of Business Analyst and Development experience in London and Australia, Phil believes strongly in the principles behind agile project methodologies. Phil has been educated through the University of Sydney and is Development Manager for Christian Vision in Australia.

Rachel Stuckey
Program Design Director, OneHope

Rachel Stuckey is a designer with 10 years experience in international nonprofit organizations. Living and working in North America, Europe, Africa, and East and South Asia, she especially enjoys the problem-solving process, cross-cultural exchange and design in the nonprofit world. She has a Masters of Design from the University of Cincinnati and currently lives and works in India.

Rajiv Khatr
Co-founder and CEO, LeadGrab

Rajiv has been a serial entrepreneur for the past 10 years with a focus on consumer internet, lead generation, and data analytics. After his second year of college, his passion for entrepreneurship led him to pursue his first start up opportunity. His introduction to entrepreneurship began in varied industries, including construction management (led business development team and achieved in excess of $30M in sales revenue per year), network security software, and consumer internet. Rajiv is Co-founder and CEO of LeadGrab, a lead generation and data analytics technology company.

Siji George
Senior Member of Technical Staff, VMWare

Siji George completed his MTech From MIT (Manipal Institute of Technology) in the field of Computer Science and Engineering and then interned with VMware. He has been working for VMware for the past 9 years, starting with the System Test Team for the products ESX & VC and then moving to Automation; working with the VIM API's to build commandline tools using STAF (open source) in Java to enable writing automation in Perl/Python to interact with the products. He as also been involved with building Automation Frameworks in Perl, worked on Python to enhance the functionality of a continuous integration tool used in the company to understand the stability of a release. He is noted for debugging skills to identify issues in a product and provide workaround for the same.

Derek Leavitt
CFO, Rhythmsy

Derek Leavitt is an Oxford MBA has been starting companies his entire life. He successfully sold his first company, Computer Essentials, when he was 24. His digital passions include crowdsourcing, design, and social media.

Organizers

Sponsors

Rules

Why the rules?

The rules are in place to give every participant the same opportunity for success. In order to be eligible for the prizes, participants must follow the rules. However, if you want to participate and not follow the rules below, you will be permitted to do so, although you will not be eligible for the prizes.

Importantly, you can start coding ahead of the event or at the event. So what are you waiting for? Register now and get started!

Read the rules

You can start creating ahead of the event or at the event.

USE WHAT YOU KNOW

Participants are free to use any tools that they know, in order to help them code.

creating RULES

There will be identical but separate cash awards for teams that started coding before the event as well as teams that started coding at the event. However, some or all of the coding must take place at the event, in order to be eligible for the prizes.

TRY TO USE OUR SPONSOR’S API’S

Although not mandatory, participants are encouraged to use our platform sponsor’s technologies.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Participants have full ownership of what they build during the Code for the Kingdom event and are free to do with it as they wish. If you code as a team, the IP is shared by the team. If you code as an individual, the IP is all yours.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL

You must secure permission for public and web display if you use any copyrighted material in your creation.

FINISH ON TIME

Participant must submit their project by the submission time on Sunday afternoon. No late submissions will be accepted.

TAXES

Prizes are non- transferable by the winner. Prize winners will be solely responsible for all applicable taxes related to accepting a prize.

FAQ