The first ever global Sanitation Hackathon will be convened in Cape Town, where global sanitation experts and journalists from all over the world would put their heads together to address the sanitation challenges in the developing world today. Read more here. This Hackathon will also be convened in Atlanta, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Dhaka, Hartford (CT), Helsinki, Jakarta, Kampala, Lahore, Lima, London, Los Angeles, Manila, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, Pune, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, DC. It is organized by the World Bank and has already resulted in information technologists developing 181 new application software or applications for safe sanitation. Read more here.