#SaveOurCities was the hashtag and these projects answered the call.
The teams from five cities, including Baltimore, competed in the the Hackathon for Social Justice. The event was held during the two-day TechConnect Summit at the National Urban League’s conference at the Baltimore Convention Center.
Most of the teams weren’t exclusively made up of devs, bringing a rigor to the development of ideas as well as products. The thinking behind each concept turned the usual hackathon emphasis on producing working projects on its head. With its MunCHI app, the Chicago Urban League team put more emphasis on showing that tech could be a conduit for directing people to black-owned restaurants with healthy food than getting a working product.
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