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Four winners emerged from the day with graphics and apps that can now be used to teach about the Farm Bill and related concerns. Several other interesting projects were also created and will be...
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced on Monday that the city will host its own "Greener, Greater Hackathon" this summer. The weekend event will “challenge data scientists, developers...
Newton Circus aims to make Singapore a more sustainable place to live in through its UP Singapore programme, an experiment in ground-up innovation through the creative use of technology and data to...
Reinvent Green, the hackathon spearheaded by NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, came and went this past weekend, but voting for the people’s choice award is open and happening here. They first covered the...
The prize went to Prince Kanguda, who came up with an application that delivers news via SMS and USSD and with an option for free subscription that is powered by adverts. The second spot went to...
IT jobs abound for these graduates as well. "On freelancer.com, programming and application development are already the among the top 10 jobs being awarded to Filipinos." affirms Matt...
The five winning designs for New York City's government website are as follows: Best Use of Social: @NYC Most Innovative: Ask NYC.gov Best Use of Local: nyc.gov Redesign Best User...
Crowdsourcing hackathons are valuable initiatives that can generate volumes of ideas and workable solutions in a short space of time. Typically they are day-long or two day-long, focused...
The Autonomous Space Capture Challenge highlights the work of companies like TopCoder and Kaggle, which have taken the idea of crowdsourced competitions and hackathons and turned them into big...
Twenty-four hours was all they had. Gathered in a computer room at Facebook, college students from 17 universities around the world spent the night hacking away at an annoying problem. These...
“We the People” has been on a roll over the past few months, having received crowdsourced petitions along both sides of the spectrum — some are serious while others aren’t as much. It’s...
The Open Data project, which is part of the NASA Open Government Initiative, is intended to improve access to NASA data. This open data catalog is a continually growing listing of publicly...
Here are some highlights of the first ever crowdsourcing hackathon, CrowdHack: 1. crowdsourced barometer readings via app installed on mobile phones to collect barometric pressure data and...
According to Jake Levitas, research director at GAFFTA, they’ve done a lot of hackathons around city issues and they’ve done a lot of exhibitions of this kind of work, but they hadn’t really...
ReBounty is an easy way to find what has been left on curbsides around the city. Winner of the Best App for City Crowdsourcing, ReBounty lets you set up alerts for different items posted near you.
Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is all about using technology to make the world a better place by building a community of innovation. RHoK brings software engineers together with disaster risk...
In this video, Tom Puskarich, VP Business Development of cloudfactory.com talks about CrowdHack. The hackathon brought together crowd hackers and techies and were given an environment to have fun...
eHD also featured some unexpected surprises. It wasn’t hosted at the usual spot for NY hackathons: General Assembly Flatiron coworking space. Instead, Dwolla and Etsy opted for midtown-based...
The "Hacking Autism Hackathon by AT&T and Autism Speaks" will sift through the best of more than 230 app ideas submitted through Autism Speaks' Facebook page. Of those entries,...
In some cases, crowdsourcing is the business. Some companies, such as Netflix, have put a mighty fine price tag on their crowdsourced efforts. Others, like Dell and Starbucks, utilize the concept...
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