In the last three years, various religious groups have tried applying belief to local hacking meetups. Code for the Kingdom's hackathon is the first attempt at mass collaboration among people of faith around the world.
And days of “civic hacking” or “hacks for change” - hackathons geared toward community and social good - are common across the U.S. Hackathons - weekend challenges to develop new tech tools to solve a problem or tap a potential market - have ballooned in popularity among top tech and Fortune 500 companies like IBM, PayPal, Facebook, Walmart, Yahoo, and Capital One.
