HACKATHONS are everywhere!!! Here’s another one from SMART DevNet.
BIGAS Hackathon is a two-day developer event and hackathon hosted by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Smart Communications, Inc.(Smart) and powered by SMART Developer Network (SMART DevNet), the developer community for Smart’s technology platform.
We’re inviting existing and aspiring
developers to create a web and/or mobile app that can be used to further
enhance the impact of IRRI technologies especially in their delivery to
farmers.We’re looking for web and mobile apps which could help solve
some of IRRI’s toughest problems. The challenges could be in such areas
as:
· Improving the collection and study of research data
· Providing information and/or technologies to farmers or extension workers
· Indexing library and other institute data
· Improving institute processes and procedures
· Storing survey data better, or speeding up survey data processing
· Designing a digital moisture meter etc.
