The ‘hackathon’ is powered by Hacker Earth and IBM Cloud.
The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) 10,000 Startups along with Bengaluru City Police, Embarq India, HackerEarth and IBM, is set to host a two day hackathon ‘The Urban Hack’ on October 3rd and 4th 2015. This will be first-ever smart city hackathon aimed at improving transportation, crime prevention and public safety through the use of technology.
According to the World Resources Institute, Bengaluru city alone has a vehicle for every two people leading to severe traffic congestions and about 3.5 lakh vehicles are added annually which amounts to 1000 vehicles per day. The number of vehicles on the road has doubled in the last 10 years (24 lakhs in 2005 to over 55 lakhs in 2015) while the BMTC bus fleet - which takes up <1% of road space but carries 40% of the people has increased only by 1.4 times in the same period. Traffic congestions alone costs Bengaluru about 5% of its economic output. This rapid urbanization has resulted in increased commute times and loss of productivity among the working class, compounding the threat of widening income inequality and recurrent crimes as the urban landscape of the city is fast spreading in all directions.
Urban Hack is being organized with an aim to use disruptive technology in order to reduce city’s traffic woes and increase public safety. Developers will be invited to participate in the 24 hours coding marathon which will be held both online and offline. The 10K Start-up Warehouse in Bengaluru will host participants who wish to choose an offline venue, while HackerEarth will host the online participants through its platform. Registrations for the hackathon will be open from today to September 30th. Participants can register for the hackathon at https://www.hackerearth.com/sprints/urban-hack/
The participants of the hackathon will get access to IBM’s cloud based technologies and mentors for further guidance. The winners will get to work closely with the Bengaluru city police to pilot the applications. Apart from this, they will get an opportunity to showcase their applications before seed investors and prominent VCs and win an opportunity to qualify for the NASSCOM 10k program. Supporting this hackathon are IBM and EMBARQ India. EMBARQ India will provide all the necessary data on transport.
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