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The Municipality of Thessaloniki in collaboration with the Open Knowledge Greece and the Research Unit URENIO invite the city’s developers to participate in an application development marathon (hackathon) in order to improve the operations of the municipality and the city (http://hackathess.eu/). Continuing the success story known as “Apps for Greece” (“1st event Applications for Thessaloniki”), the organizers invite contestants to exploit the potential of technology and to develop web and mobile applications, which will improve the quality of life in the city.

 The hackathon participants are asked to focus on any of the critical issues that will improve the functioning of the city: transportation, energy, nutrition, water, buildings, infrastructure, governance, etc. You can create web or mobile applications in the language and platform of your choice. The jury, made ​​up of members of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Academics, Researchers and Entrepreneurs, will evaluate the participants. 

Description 

What will happen: Application development marathon (Hachathon) for Thessaloniki.

Who should attend: Programmers and software designers who live or work in the area of ​​Thessaloniki in groups of one to three people.

Where: The open co-working space “Coho”, Nap. Zervas, 10, Thessaloniki.

When: The contest will be held on the 29 and 30 November 2014. The awards will be given on December 4, 2014.

Schedule: 29-30 / 11/2014

 10:00 to 11:00: Organizers Presentations

11:00 to 17:00 (Sunday): Application development Marathon

17:00 to 19:00: Presentation of applications to the jury

19: 00 to 21:00: Presentation of applications on startup Europe

21:00: Announcement of the results

04/12/2014

20:00: Award winners

We offer: Short presentations of the contest’s basic guidelines, which will help you get started. Meals, snacks, soft drinks and coffee to keep you alert, and breakfast on Sunday morning. Wireless Internet access.

You must bring: Your laptop, creativity, passion, skills and ideas. Also, a cooperative attitude and team spirit as you will be member of a team.

Subject: All teams participating in the competition have to work on a problem faced by citizens of Thessaloniki. The problems will be chosen from a list provided by the organizers. Problems not in the list can also be selected by the participants, as long as they are related to the hackathon’s theme.

Prizes:

1st Prize: 3.000 €

2nd Prize: 2.000 €

3rd Prize: 1.000 €

Jury:The Jury will consist of members of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, Academics, Researchers and Entrepreneurs. The members of the jury will be announced soon.

 Evaluation criteria:

 There are three key criteria against which applications will be assessed:

• Quality concept: The application is novel and innovative.
• Development concept: The application is functional, it works without major problems, it is well designed, and it can be offered to real users with minor improvements.
• Possible outcomes: The implementation, once offered to citizens can help them in solving a significant administrative, social, environmental or economic issue in the city.

 Registration:

You can enroll here until November 23, 2014.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Library (AUTH) in cooperation with Open Knowledge Greece invites you to the event “Open Access Week 2014” to be held on 21rst October at the Amphitheatre of the Central Library.

Time: October 21, 2014 from 11am to 1:30pm

Location: Amphitheatre of the Central Library
Street: AUTh Campus
City/Town: Thessaloniki
Website or Map: http://maps.auth.gr/?lang=en&…
Event Type: informational

Program 

11.00 Opening

11.30 Open Access Button
Alexandra Giannopoulou, Lawyer and PhDc of Université Paris II Panthéon Assas, member of the OAB (via Skype)

11.45 The Open Data in the Knowledge Society
Dr. Charalmapos Bratsas, President of the Open Knowledge Greece, School of Mathematics AUTH

12.15 Open Research Health Data Management 
Dr. Panagiotis Bamidis, Assist. Professor of Medical Education Informatics, Medical Physics Laboratory, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Open Knowledge Greece Founding Member, Advisory Board Member of the Open Knowledge International.

12.45 Open Access Library Services in AuTH

S.Alexandridou, N.Grigoriadou, E.Emmanouilidou, S.Zapounidou, N.Kaliakouda, V.Karkanis, F.Lioliou, D.Papadaki, Librarians of AUTH Central Library

13.00 Strategies to Publish in Research Projects and Open Access
Sophia Zapounidou, Librarian service website

13.45 Discussion - Questions

Our local group (Open Knowledge - Philippines) will have a meet-up entitled “Talk Data to me” on 28 Oct 2014, 7pm at Bo’s Coffee, Glorietta 5 Makati City. This will be the second meet-up after the Maker’s Festival 2014 held last 14-15 Sep 2014 at Glorietta 5 atrium.

Our agenda is to confirm the membership and assigning key people to hold working groups. In addition, we will initiate the planning session for the upcoming activities of OKPH in 2015. In relation to our projects, the Open LGU-Full Disclosure Policy will look into openspending platform. Another project of Bantay.ph headed by Happy Feraren (School of Data Fellow) is the collection and analysis of Civil Service Commission (CSC) call center data and bring it forward to a more effective public-driven feedback mechanism and public participation. We will also activate our membership to participate in populating the Open Data Census - datasets from the Philippines.

The meet-up is through the initiative of Happy Feraren (School of Data Fellow) and Joseph De Guia (local group ambassador) with the support of Bantay.Ph. 

Do you want to be involved in developing new smart services? Do you want to take part in inspiring seminars on digitization and open data? Then you should sign up for the Gothenburg event during the Nordic Open Data Week 2015. It is free and you can compete for great prizes.

On May 30, 2015 the City of Gothenburg is organizing, together with SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden and the Social Media Club Gothenburg, a full day on open data. During the day there will be seminars on innovation, open data and digital services. In addition to the seminars, there is a hackathon, where you will be able to develop ideas with those data sets available, along with other participants. The event is supported by VINNOVA.

The competition focuses on solving the challenges emanating from the three sustainability pillars, socially, economically and an ecologically sustainable society. Compete individually or in teams. You can start developing your contribution as soon as you have registered. On May 30, all participants gathers for the on-site development of ideas through visualization of prototypes and suggestions. The ideas will be demonstrated for the audience and the winner is decided by the end of the day.

– My hope is that we can get to see all sorts of exciting creations, why not a horn saluting us Gothenburgers when we fall below our levels of air pollution, says Ronald Caous, leading Gothenburg digital development.

Serdar Temiz, doctoral candidate in open data at KTH and chairman of Open Knowledge Sweden, is one of the keynote speakers.

For registration and  more information please click here

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