Girls in Tech holds its first global Hacking for Humanity event

Girls in Tech, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes girls and women in technology jobs, kicked off a global series of hackathons with its first event in Melbourne, Australia.
Dubbed Hacking for Humanity, the events encourage women-led teams to compete to create prototypes in a couple of days that can address complex social problems. The hackathons are aimed at using technology to benefit charities with technology, while also enabling impassioned women to engage in innovation and entre