Hacks/Hackers in Singapore, Berlin, Brisbane

Welcome back, hacks and hackers! This week we've got meetups in Australia, Singapore, Germany, the UK and more. If you want to keep up, remember you can subscribe to the Hacks/Hackers global calendar or check the website for new events:

Don't forget to read to the bottom for more events in South Africa, Brazil and Tunisia coming up later this month.

The week ahead:

• Singapore is speaking with a member of AirBnB
• IRE is holdings its regular open lab
• London is holding its November meetup
• Berlin is discussing machine learning
• Brisbane is talking about the Design of Nothing

Worth a read:

• Media startups are not faring well in Singapore, perhaps because they are perceived as too "alternative" or "anti-establishment," Sherwin Chua writes (NiemanLab)
• The bar for international media collaboration, pioneered by ICIJ, keeps getting raised higher with the Paradise Papers (MediaShift)
• The EU government is beginning a long process to undertake its own misinformation-fighting project, asking the public for collaboration (Poynter)

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