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Hackers (a.k.a. computer programmers, software or hardware developers, interface designers, and general IT enthusiasts) in the Philippines who think their genius can help make rice research a little bit better converged Saturday morning (31 August) at this year's Bigas2 Hack, a competition looking for software applications and devices to help improve rice farming and research.

In this video clip, Achim Dobermann, deputy director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) opens the event and welcomes all the hackers.

For more on the Bigas2 Hack see: http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_...

The event is jointly organized by IRRI and Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), in partnership with the U.S. Embassy-Manila, Amazon Web Services, freelancer.com, Windows Azure, Google Developers Group, Jollibee Group Foundation, Soft Microenterprises, USSE, and Mozilla-Philippines.