{"id":68925,"date":"2018-03-07T17:45:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68925"},"modified":"2018-03-08T05:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T10:56:53","slug":"guardian-vatican-hosts-first-hackathon-to-tackle-global-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68925","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Vatican hosts first hackathon to tackle global issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican is to host its first hackathon this week, harnessing the technological skills and creativity of students from more than 50 universities around the world to tackle issues identified as priorities by\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pope-francis\" data-link-name=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Pope Francis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 120 students and 35 mentors will gather in Rome over three days to focus on social inclusion, migrants and refugees, and interfaith dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe aim is to bring people with backgrounds in technology, business, civil society and the humanities together to bring new perspectives to key global issues,\u201d said Father Eric Salobir, a Catholic priest and president of the research and innovation network\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/optictechnology.org\/index.php\/en\/who-we-are\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Optic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The VHacks event is being organised in partnership with some of the world\u2019s biggest tech companies, including Google and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/mar\/07\/vatican-hosts-first-hackathon-to-tackle-global-issues\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican is to host its first hackathon this week, harnessing the technological skills and creativity of students from more than 50 universities around the world to tackle issues identified as priorities by\u00a0Pope Francis. About 120 students and 35 mentors<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68925\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,637,108,414,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-pope-francis","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic-other-churches","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68927,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68925\/revisions\/68927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}