Picture by ragnar1984 on Flickr.
Last month I wrote about an initiative by Change.org to bring together 100 engineers and designer for a 24-hour hackathon. The goal was to come up with an application that positively affects the world around us -- in other words, hack for change.
With the challenge now concluded, I'm excited to share the top winners, each of which will receive a small amount of seed funding to further the development of their web or mobile application. In total 17 applications were created, most too new to share with the public, but hopefully that will be changing. Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist.org, along with a panel of judges came together to choose the winners.
The top prize was awarded to a team that built a community based SMS service, "Good Neighbor", which sends messages to those in your community asking for a favor or helping hand.