Hack for Charity winners!
Last weekend, a group of technology experts met at The Melting Pot in Edinburgh’s city centre, and were given just 48 hours to put their minds together and create some innovative products which could benefit Scottish charities.
Charity Hack Scotland, run by the Association of Chief Officers of Scottish Voluntary Organisations (ACOSVO), an organisation for Scottish third sector leaders, and Mallzee, an online fashion company, involved thirty tech gurus being split into teams and paired with charities from across Scotland.
Visibility was one of the charities who attended the ‘Hackathon’ and came away from this wonderful weekend as the winner! We are so proud of our tech team who developed not one, but three, ideas that could help support people with sight loss.
Clare Lappin, our fundraising manager said: “The hack was so valuable to Visibility because it presented a unique opportunity, which we couldn’t easily facilitate ourselves as a small charity, to explore really innovative ways of developing what we do, by harnessing the power of technology.
“We were quite frankly blown away by our team’s ideas which consisted of two useable products and the concept of an app, to help people living with sight loss self-manage their condition. We would love to progress the products and concepts achieved over the weekend to a point where they can be accessed by everyone – not just in our geographical area but beyond. In this respect, we will be pursuing connections made over the weekend, in the hope that we can secure funding to bring the hard work of our ‘hack’ team to fruition.”
Read more about the Charity Hack Scotland event on the Third Force News website http://bit.ly/1WkMyD1