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Bring Your Innovative Minds!
Why do you care...
Youâve got ideas to better track your commute schedule, to reduce your energy and waste consumption, or to connect with your local communities. Come to share your solutions at Cleanweb Hack on Saturday, October 26th. You will have an opportunity to access transportation, energy and other data to design a prototype.
What is Cleanweb...
The revolutionary growth in mobile, social, sensors, processing power, big data analytics, and other information technologies is creating powerful new opportunities to address the world's critical resource challenges.
Individuals and organizations around the world are leveraging this web of technologies in incredibly innovative ways to optimize how we use resources across the way we live, work, and play.
Goals are...
This is not your typical hackathon. Hence, you will be hanging out with talents, meeting new like-minded people and creating cool applications to solve environmental resources and social issues and perhaps bragging right.
End Product will be...
At the end of the day, you and your team will pitch your ideas to a panel of selected judges â a venture fund manager, a tech innovator and a leader from Intel tech sector, and more coming soon!
And Prizes...
1st Place - $500,
2nd Place - $250
There will be food, drink and good companies. Come out to have some fun!
Donât miss the Pre-Event Networking at Thetus on the evening of October 23. See details on the registration page.
https://psu-tao-cleanweb-hack.eventbrite.com/
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What is Cleanweb?
Cleanweb is a meme, a movement, a market that individuals/organizations are leveraging information technologies to address the world's critical resource challenges. This web of technologies can optimize how we use resources across the way we live, work, and play. It creates the biggest impact and economic opportunity of our time.
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Dear Cleanweb Hack Participants,
Are you ready to hack some data and to create awesome apps? To prepare you for a fun and productive day, below are some tips, data/API resources to get you ready for the hack tomorrow.
Goals
To generate ideas are innovative to solving environmental and sustainability, social equity issues through utilization of software and mobile apps. Donât forget to have some fun.
Idea Generation
To start, you should ask the following questions:
1) What issues you and your team would like to tackle? (ie. carbon emissions reduction by buildings or vehicles, solar potential identifier, change of personal habits, e-waste tracking, etc.)
2) What do other similar applications exist on the market? Sometimes, building on existing apps can resolve a more refined product.
3) What is the marketability? Is it scalable?
The best project ideas are one that you are passionate about, and have some components of competition and linkage to social media.
Finding Data
While you are brainstorming ideas, you should also consider data availability as well. It is not the end of the world if you donât have data sets or APIs to mock up a prototype. Simply build your own datasets, even if just a few that are enough for you to test out your product.
See the Cleanweb Hack resource guide for APIs, data sets, sample projects and project ideas. (http://tinyurl.com/m7a744e)
Judging Criteria
At the end of day, your prototype will be scored on these criteria:
1) Impact on resource and sustainability issues
2) Design and usability of prototype
3) Feasibility and marketability
4) Good use of datasets and APIs
Prizes
1st Place - $500
2nd Place - $250
Bragging right is priceless.
Our judges are looking forward to your innovations!
Winston Saunders, Director of Data Center Security Initiatives at Intel
Chris Harder, Division Manager at the Portland Development Commission (PDC)
Skip Newberry, President at the Technology Association of Oregon (TAO)
Questions? Ask us on Twitter (@cleanwebPDX), Facebook or via email [email protected]
There will be food, drink and good companies. Come out to have some fun!
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What is Cleanweb?
Cleanweb is a meme, a movement, a market that individuals/organizations are leveraging information technologies to address the world's critical resource challenges. This web of technologies can optimize how we use resources across the way we live, work, and play. It creates the biggest impact and economic opportunity of our time. |