Summary report of Vibewire's #Hack4Homelessness. Held 8-10 December 2017, this social impact hackathon was designed to tackle the social, technical, cultural and behavioural challenges of family and domestic violence.

1. NCOSS #hack4DV
Report, January 2018

2. HackDV Overview

3. HackDV Interviews

4. Contents
1. Background
2. Family and DV themes
3. Problem statements
4. Teams and ideas
5. Winners
6. Next steps
We believe young people should create,
not inherit the future.
Vibewire is the launchpad for young
changemakers.

5. Background
Vibewire in partnership with NCOSS, Jewish House, Minerva Collective, Western
Sydney University, MnM Institute and Academy Xi hosted #Hack4DV on 8-10
December 2017.
Over 100 people participated in the hackathon including, coders, designers,
entrepreneurs and subject matter experts from Western Sydney University,
Aunty’s House, Films4Change and DV NSW. As well as people with lived
experience of family and domestic violence (past and recent).
More than 50% of participants had never been to a hackathon before - and only a
small number of people had previously met. We were all swimming in uncharted
waters.
Over 36 hours, twelve teams formed and developed solutions that addressed the
key themes and problem statements.

6. Impacts on
Children & Young
people
Giving a voice and
support to children
and young people
Themes
Prevention and
Early Intervention
to deal with trauma,
isolation, mental
health and
rebuilding lives
Financial Inclusion
and employment
access to flexible
education, training &
employment
Accommodation
transitional, temporary
and long term.

7. Despite billions of dollars of investment and long term commitment to addressing family and domestic
violence, we continue to see rates and costs rise.
Domestic violence:
● Costs the Australian economy $13.6 billion a year
● Costs the NSW economy $4.5 billion a year
● Is massive in scale with NSW Police reporting over 27,000 domestic violence assaults in 2014
● Poses a bigger health risk to women aged 18-44 than smoking, diabetes and obesity
● Is 10 times higher in rural, regional and remote NSW
● Affects 1 million children and is present in 50% of households where children are abused.
Moreover:
● Aboriginal women are 35 times more likely to be hospitalised as a result of family and
domestic violence.
Problem we are solving

8. Problem Statements
JEWISH HOUSE Challenge: Supporting the child to disrupt the cycle of
disadvantage. Children are often the voiceless and those impacted greatly as a
result of family and domestic violence. Supports for children are needed to
ensure they have the right opportunities and mentorship.
NCOSS Challenge: There are many support services and structures in place
across the community and government that deal with the support and safety of
women. However, there are little services or support (accommodation or
otherwise) available to men who commit acts of violence in their relationships.
There is almost no early intervention support or emergency accommodation in
order that women can stay safe at home and the violent party leaves.

9. Teams and Ideas
SURVIVOR
SUPERHEROES
Helen McHugh and Nisha Gautam
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early intervention
Survivor Superheroes
By sharing stories on triggers for change,
mental, financial and physical health of
superhero survivors.
Download Presentation

10. Teams and Ideas
Safe Space (3rd Prize)
Ballina Gee, Lesley Cooper with Yoomin
Lee and Jamie Karthigeyan
Problem you are solving:
Impacts on children and young people
Safe Space
An online Sandbox open world game that
generates data to help identify kids at risk
and connect them to tools and resources
to break the cycle of abuse.
Download Presentation

11. Teams and Ideas
1x3 DV to None
Hoang Nguyen, Warren Guillema,
Jacqueline Forst, Daniel Choi, Elisa
Lillicrap
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early intervention
1x3 DV to None
Using untapped university counsellor data
and machine learning to identify, diagnose
and recommend victims of family and
domestic violence.
Download presentation

12. Teams and Ideas
ManBot (Winner)
Gopinaath Ragavan, Valerie Dobrelya
Brandon and Kevin
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early intervention
ManBot
Using predictive analytics, identify men at
risk of being perpetrators using a chatbot
therapist to provide tips, tools and
supports.
Download Presentation

13. Teams and Ideas
Help for DV
Dominic Ng, Gagan Shrestha, Sangeetha
Karthikey and Yuqi Wang.
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early Intervention
Help for DV
Messaging Platform - Chatbots (Facebook
messenger & SMS). To remove barriers,
encourage more reach-outs and capture
useful data.
Download Presentation

14. Teams and Ideas
eDVate
Hitha Raja Vatsavayi, Clarissa Montino,
Savdesh Kaur
Problem you are solving:
Financial inclusion and Employment
eDVate
Skills, mentoring and education program
for women to rebuild confidence, get work
ready and become financially independent.
Download presentation

15. Teams and Ideas
Sanctuary -
Modular Accommodation
Solutions
Matt Daly, John Barnett, Ian Lyons
Problem you are solving:
Accommodation
Sanctuary -
Modular Accommodation Solution
Prefab modular accommodation using
unused land on TAFE sites bringing
survivors access to education.
Download Presentation

16. Teams and Ideas
The Dream Team
Yawen, Amy, Kiah Hickson and Michael
Liu
Problem you are solving:
Financial Inclusion and Employment
The Dream Team
Connecting women escaping DV with
subsidised childcare and education and
employment opportunities.
Download presentation

17. Teams and Ideas
WimWerk
Yusra Metwally, Kate Reithmuller,
Dominic Ng and Nazia Ahmed
Problem you are solving:
Financial inclusion and employment
WimWerk
Connect women escaping DV with
childcare, structured internships and
employment opportunities in companies
needing to improve their diversity KPIs.
Download Presentation

18. Teams and Ideas
DV Detect (2nd prize)
Jacky Koh, Daniel V
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early intervention
DV Detect
Uses social media profiles to predict
probability of DV through social listening,
and use NLP and machine learning, target
people at risk with positive messages.

19. Teams and Ideas
Indivisible (Bonus prize
for most ‘techy’ hack)
Vinod Ralh, Ignatius Widjaja & David
Johnsson
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early intervention
Indivisible
Uses augmented reality and machine
learning to help children and teachers
identify red flags and predictors to end the
pipeline of family and DV.
Download Presentation

20. Teams and Ideas
Team Spot
Laura D and team
Problem you are solving:
Prevention and Early intervention
Team Spot
Helping counselors and teachers to
identify family and DV behaviours and
gamifying interactions to provide support.

21. NEXT STEPS
FOR WINNERS
INCUBATION
WHAT DID THEY WIN
ManBot 1st
+ $1,500 in cash
+ 3 months co-working space at Vibewire for up to
6 members (valued at $3000)
+ Academy Xi $2000 (Part time or Full time credit for
the team to share or for one person)
+ Academy Xi $100 bootcamp ticket for each
member in the team
DV Detect 2nd
+ $100 JB Hi-Fi Voucher x 5
+ Academy Xi $1500 (Part time or Full time credit for
the team to share or for one person)
+ Academy Xi $100 bootcamp ticket for each
member in the team
Safe Spaces 3rd
+ $50 JBHIFI voucher X 5
+ Academy Xi $1000 (Part time or Full time credit for
the team to share or for one person)
Indivisible - most techy
Coffee with Tracy Howe and Raspberry Pi

22. NEXT STEPS
Bonus Prize
Bonus Prize courtesy of Ivan
Kaye:
ManBot
- 10 month Diploma of Business with bsi (valued
at $5000) to commercialise the app including a
year of Business Builders Groups forums valued
at $7500.
- For all those others who are keen to be part of
the Hackathon bbg innovation chapter - and do a
Diploma of Business Ivan has arranged a subsidy
from the government of $5000 to do this - but
they will have to pay the $2500.
- It is possible that the $2500 could possibly be
funded by A vocational loan.

23. VIBEWIRE
Presenting this report
to government
Working on a
Social Impact Incubator
Planning the next event
Hack4MentalHealth
16 -18 February 2018

24. Vibewire is Australia's first skills gym designed to prep young people (aged 20-35) on how to hustle in 2030. We run intensive
skills workouts for you to exercise, challenge and push your enterprise, creative and technology skills working on real briefs
and problems.
We have incubated and supported over 100 creative, social and tech startups, and helped to launch the careers of over a
thousand young change makers since 2000.
Check us out on vibewire.org
About Vibewire

25. We couldn’t #Hack4DV without the support of our sponsors and partners who have all gone above
and beyond to help us reach deep into our communities to create connection and change:
We’d also like to acknowledge the support of our Start Some Good Crowdfunding Contributors:
Mercy Hema, Anne-Marie Elias, James Bolster, Tom Dawkins, Mark Pesce and Gavin Heaton.

26. CONNECT WITH US
facebook.com/vibewire
instagram.com/vibewire
FOR MORE INFO
vibewire.org
meetup.com/Young-Entrepreneurs-Sydney