Random Hack of Kindness - June 5-6

Come join Random Hacks of Kindness 5-6 June. Everyone welcome.

This will be a group effort, so bring your skills in website usability, knowledge of what happens in crises (fires, floods, hurricanes, ..), coding skills (if you got 'em), and your ideas and enthusiasm.

Venue: ASB Lounge, Level 6, Australian School of Business, UNSW, Kensington.

Registration via: http://www.rhok.org/events/rhok-1-0/sydney-australia/

NYC Next Idea: Business competition (foreign ideas launched in NYC)

Here's an interesting twist on a business competition. Submission eligibility is that you are a (team of) student(s) at a non-US university, but interested in launching the business in NYC.

Details at: www.nycedc.com/nextidea

Registration deadline: October 1, 2010 for finals in NYC in April 2011

NSW Government Launches 2010 Australian Innovation Festival

Reposted from an email earlier last week. Sorry about the delay. The festival has already begun!!

The 2010 Australian Innovation Festival will feature over 600 events promoting innovation across the nation, Minister for State and Regional Development Ian Macdonald said today.

Mr Macdonald said the ninth annual festival, which was launched in Sydney today, runs 26 April to 30 May and will feature more than 200 events in NSW.

For more info, see:
http://www.ausinnovation.org/articles/nsw-government-launches-2010-australain-innovation-festival.html

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Also advertised on their site are the Dupont Innovation Awards, officially opening in August 2010:
http://www.dupontinnovationawards.com