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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Business and Industry Economics and Finance Science and Technology Social Development Technical Cooperation Social Development: Information and Communications Technologies Technical cooperation
Geographic scope:	International
Country of activity:	United States of America Colombia Brazil Georgia Viet Nam Serbia Australia Philippines Malaysia Canada United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Sri Lanka
Millennium Development Goals:	Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Promote gender equality and empower women Develop global partnership for development
Mission statement:	HackerNest unites local technology communities around the world as part of a broader mission to alleviate poverty through economic development. HackerNest was founded on the belief that the best way to improve the world is to build strong local technology communities characterized by honesty, trust, sharing, respect, and supportiveness - everywhere. The rationale is that an environment with those foundations enables collaboration, innovation, the creation of opportunities for economic prosperity, and ultimately, human progress. Our ideology is deeply rooted in chaos theory, the idea that minor differences at the start of a process in a dynamic system can have major, unexpected impacts on the end result. With that in mind, HackerNest city chapters regularly host social gatherings that are open to anyone interested in technology called "Tech Socials". The events vary by city, but maintain the same core tenets, as all are nonpartisan, unpretentious, anti-elitist, and agenda and pitch-free. Similar to how the seemingly-insignificant act of handing a child a pencil culminated in the world-changing legacy of Pablo Picasso decades later, HackerNest reasons that making a new friend at a Tech Social could result in a partnership that one day finds a cure for cancer. The first Tech Social was held in Toronto on Monday, January 31, 2011. HackerNest Toronto is currently the world's largest Meetup group for programmers and Canada's largest technology meetup (both in terms of group membership and number of attendees at events). The flagship splinter cell also ran two notable hackathons: HackerNest Construct, Canada's largest hardware hackathon and DementiaHack for the British government, the world's first hackathon dedicated to helping people with dementia and their caregivers. As of December 2014, HackerNest "splinter cells" (chapters) have run events in 20 cities across 11 countries on 4 continents.
Year established:	2011
Year of registration:	2012
Organizational structure:	We're a federally incorporated Canadian nonprofit organization.
Number and type of members:	We've 15000+ members worldwide, of which 70 are organizers and 350+ are volunteers.
Funding structure:	Other sources Product sales and business services
Funding structure other:	Sponsorship

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