Hack For Change is a community of developers, software engineers and other like minded individuals, focused on solving specific problem statements proposed by social and governmental organisations, using emerging technologies.
2. Stage 3
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 4
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Problem Discovery
Hack For Change is a community of developers, designers, marketers and facilitators focused on solving specific
problem statements proposed by social, governmental and non-governmental organizations, using emerging
technologies.
What We Are
Solutioning
Collaborative Execution
Solution Launch and Promotion
3. Our Objectives
Avoid Re-Invention
We involve organizations with deep domain expertise to
propose problem statements and suggest solutions.
Get community involved in building solutions
People across various domains, including software development,
design, marketing and management are involved.
Leverage Technology
Find technology driven solutions for the pressing social
issues in India.
Build sustainable solutions
Solutions are planned in a controlled manner by the core
team, along with other experts.
Ensure Adoption & Minimize Throwaway
Built solutions are aggressively marketed and promoted
so that people actually benefit from the community's
efforts.
HackForChange is designed in a way to
discover problems, design and build solutions
in a step by step controlled manner.
Our mission is to minimize throwaway
solutioning and scale and build solutions
through continued community efforts.
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4. Organizations with deep domain expertise suggest
problem statements in the areas of social, economic and
civic empowerment.
Stage 1. Problem Discovery
HFC core team analyses problem statements, evaluates
effectiveness of the proposed solution and aligns the
suggested problem with ongoing and new projects.
Stage 2. Solutioning
Solutions built through contributions of community are
launched and promoted to ensure continued success and
adoption.
Stage 4. Solution Launch & Promotion
Planned projects are executed through community of
volunteers and mentors across various colleges and other
city chapters.
Stage 3. Collaborative Execution
Our Process
Hack For Change is a community of developers,
designers, marketers and facilitators focused on
solving specific problem statements proposed by
social, governmental and non-governmental
organizations, using emerging technologies.
By collaboratively, working with other organizations,
we discover, design, launch and sustain various
solutions to solve some of the pressing social,
economic and civic issues in India.
Help us sustain our mission and affect change, by
actively supporting our cause.
https://www.hackforchange.co.in/
5. Focus Areas
Our primary focus is on empowering individual both as a
citizen and a social being.
Partners
We partner with various organizations to understand
issues and align with them to build sustainable solutions
using technology.
Governmental
Organisations
GHMC
Govt. Of Telangana
Social
Organisations
Factly
SocialCops
DataWeave
Social Empowerment
Social Enterprise
Woman Empowerment
Civic Empowerment
Open Governance
Civic Engagement
Disaster Management
Non-Governmental
Organisations
FDR
ADR
PRS Legislative Research
Our
Approach
Problem Discovery
Organizations with deep domain expertise and
on the path to empower citizens of India are
requested to suggest problem statements,
along with possible solutions to some of the
pressing issues in India.
Our problem statements are specifically
focused on empowering individuals socially
and economically using tech-driven solutions.
Our objective to help existing organizations
further their cause using technology.
Stage 1
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6. Problem statements suggested by our partner
organizations are analysed to evaluate effectiveness, and
solvability using technology.
Step 1. Problem Statement Analysis
Selected problems are debated and solved by our internal
team of technologists and designers to minimize
throwaway and optimize for utmost usage.
Step 2. Ideation
Solutions are visualized by our expert team of user
researchers and information architects to ensure
maximum usability and adoption.
Step 3. Visualization
Our
Approach
Solutioning
Our core team of technologists and social
scientists evaluate the problem
statement, analyze effectiveness of the
proposed solution, and devise a way
forward.
Stage 2
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7. Collaborative Execution
Our core project team, prepares plans and creates a
roadmap for the release of the solution.
Step 1. Project Planning
Step 2. Team Allocation
As per the roadmap an internal project co-ordinator,
external mentor and external team of collaborators is
assigned to build the solution.
Planned projects are executed through
community of collaborators from various city
chapters and college centres.
Step 3. Execution
Project team, works on building the solution as per the
roadmap.
Our
Approach
Stage 3
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8. On successful completion project is launched for public
consumption.
Step 1. Launch
Step 2. Promotion
Our own core team, along with the community of
marketing professionals, promotes the solutions.
Solution Launch &
Promotion &
Sustenance
Step 3. Sustenance
Our own solutions are continually promoted, maintained
and improved continuously to ensure sustenance and
adoption.
On successful completion of the project,
the particular website, mobile application
or hardware is launched.
We ensure continued adoption and
promotion of the solution built through the
community efforts.
Our
Approach
Stage 4
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9. How can you help Help us understand pressing issues that India faces today
and channel our energies towards building meaningful
solutions.
Partner
Both working and non-working professionals across
design, development, marketing and management are
requested to help us plan, build, launch and promote
solutions.
Collaborate
Contrary to common belief, community driven initiatives
need long term resources to actively build and manage
such efforts.
Donate
Adopt one of our projects, to encourage the community
and also to ensure continued development and adoption
of solutions.
Sponsor
As a community driven effort we are
looking for support to discover, build and
sustain our mission.
We are looking for support to manage our
own community building efforts and also
ways to ensure continuous solutioning
and community involvement.
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10. Help us understand pressing issues that
India faces today and channel our
energies towards building meaningful
solutions.
We are inviting social, governmental and non-
governmental organizations alike to suggest meaningful
problem statements, that can be solved using modern
technologies.
Suggest A Problem Statement
Partner With Us
Your
support
will
go
a
long
way
We actively encourage the organizations suggesting the
problem statements and other similar organizations to
adopt solutions built by the Hack For Change community
and encourage every citizen to use and benifit.
Adopt An Existing Solution
How can you help
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11. Collaborate With Us
Both working and non-working
professionals across design,
development, marketing and management
are requested to help us plan, build,
launch and promote solutions.
As a Mentor
Working professionals with 5+ years of experience in
technology, design and project management are
requested to mentor and work with the project co-
ordinators, to guide and build solutions through
community efforts.
As a Contributor
We are looking for developers, designers, marketers and
management professionals and even students to join our
solution building efforts either by joining a city chapter or a
college level centre.
How can you help
Your
support
will
go
a
long
way
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12. Donate
Contrary to common belief, community-
driven initiatives need long term
resources to actively build and manage
such efforts.
As a non-profit initiative we rely on external donations to
further our cause bit by bit, through efforts of a core team.
Our core team also ensures overall direction and
adherence to the program.
Operational Expenses
We are actively reaching out the community to get them
involved and motivated through digital and non-digital
campaigns.
Community Building Efforts
How can you help
Your
support
will
go
a
long
way
https://www.hackforchange.co.in/donate
13. Sponsor
Adopt one of our projects, to encourage
the community and also to enure
continued development and adoption of
solutions.
Sponsor A New Project
Tech and Non-Tech organizations who understand the
leverage technology has are invited to sponsor and adopt
a project so that we can build confidence in the
community and also ensure project completion till the
end.
Adopt An Existing Project
After the initial launch of a particular solution, continuous
efforts are involved to improve, maintain and promote
solutions. Various part time contributors across cities are
encouraged through such sponsorship.
Your
support
will
go
a
long
way
How can you help
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14. Why HackForChange?
Systemic Changes
Our primay focus is on systemic changes for
empowerment rather short-term, stop gap solutions.
Build solutions collaboratively
By enabling the community itself to come together and
work on solving important issues, we hope to collectively
build a better and brighter India
Lean on the shoulders of giants
Other social and governmental organisations are engaged
to actively participate in the solutioning process, without
which tech driven solutions are rendered superficial.
Technology, Right Lever For Social Change
Technology-driven systemic solutions, are 100x more
impactful compared to investing in short term charity.
HackForChange is designed as platform
to leverage technology and community to
build solutions for some of the pressing
problems in India.
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15. For a lasting social change.
contact@hackforchange.co.in
https://www.hackforchange.co.in/ +91 99633 62872
Hyderabad, India
An Inititaive By
Center For Technology And Social Change
