From the course: Open Data: Unleashing Hidden Value
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Events: Hackathons and apps challenges
From the course: Open Data: Unleashing Hidden Value
Events: Hackathons and apps challenges
- [Instructor] How might we make a community aware of the value of open data? Beyond traditional marketing methods, I'd like to briefly discuss two fun and valuable ways that communities can engage a range of people in both being introduced to open data, and to unleashing its value. I'm going to discuss hackathons and apps challenges. Let's begin with a hackathon, what is it? A hackathon is an event that brings together people with specific skills and interests in using open data to solve a problem. Often prizes are awarded to participants and teams for the best work. The traditional participant is a software developer who uses data to build a solution. But increasingly, hackathons attract many different types of people. These include people with ideas, artists, testers, observers, and government officials. The event begins with a presentation of some problems that need to be solved. Either a government agency presents this, or community members are invited to present what they…
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