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The Water Anchor and the Water and Sanitation Program of the World Bank along with partners, Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) and India Water Portal (IWP) are hosting a Water Hackathon event. The event aims to develop prototypes in mobile applications to help address issues in the water and sanitation sector. The Water Hackathon is intensive marathon of brainstorming and programming, where software developers and designers collaborate to create new tools for solving water and sanitation problems like access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation, flooding and drought and environmental pollution.
Date: 21st October – 23rd October
Location:
Friday 21st October @ Ista, Bangalore
22nd-23rd October @IIIT-B, Bangalore, 26/C, Electronics City, Hosur Road
The Water Hackathon will be held in Bangalore from Oct 21- 23rd, 2011. The event is also being supported by Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, Hewlett Packard, Broadvision Group of India, NJS Engineers India and OnMobile.
The Water Hackathon Bangalore will be kicked off with a dinner event on Friday the 21st of October at the Ista Hotel, Bangalore which will include presentations by experts in the water sector and the IT sector. Teams of “ethical hackers” will identify the problems in the water sector they want to address using the mobile technology of their choice.
The hackathon will then begin at 08:00 am on Saturday 22nd of October at the Electronic City Campus of the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B). The teams will work or “hack” through the night of Saturday and present their solutions to an eminent jury from civil society organizations and the private- and public sectors on the afternoon of Sunday the 23rd of October 2011.
Winners will receive exciting prizes and an opportunity to develop their solution into a full-fledged application.
Click here to Register.
