Nizhny Novgorod is an extremely interesting city from the point of view of the IT landscape. The list of companies whose offices are located in our city is really impressive: the Russian office of Intel, MERA, MFI Soft, EPAM, Auriga, Five9, NetCracker, Luxoft, Citadel... 5G standards, SORM, CRM systems, games are being partially created in our city DivoGames aka GI and Adore Games, online document editors, world-famous products for working with video and audio, etc. And if you dive a little deeper into the world of IT, you can find developers of global projects, such as, for example, SAP, who work remotely from home.
Minin and Pozharsky Square - the main square of Nizhny Novgorod
Wow. And in the city itself there is a lot that can be improved and improved - developing infrastructure, monitoring, environmental issues, employment, education, healthcare and sports. In general, typical life and typical problems of a city with a population of over a million, with the difference that Nizhny Novgorod has unique features: it is a tourist-attractive city with an ancient history, it is an industrial city with interesting and cool enterprises, now it is a city with an excellent stadium, and of course with unique geographical location at the confluence of the Oka and Volga. Well, we are also the unofficial capital of sunsets, and thatβs it .
So what is a hackathon?
Nizhny Novgorod became the first city in Russia to launch the Global City Hackathon project!
Do you care about our city? Any ideas on how to make it better, more convenient, more technologically advanced?
Over the course of three days, participants will develop prototypes of digital services to solve current urban problems, and you can become one of them!
Solutions can be developed in three directions:
- Accessible city. Accessible urban environment (including for people with limited mobility), support for older people and people with disabilities.
- Zero waste city. Transition to a circular economy. Efficiency and transparency of waste collection, removal and disposal, resource reuse, environmental monitoring, environmental education.
- Open City. Collection, storage, processing and provision of data to meet the needs of city services, the business community, citizens and tourists.
To help develop solutions, experts on city services from other cities and countries, as well as technology experts in areas that can be applied (IoT, Big Data, Predictive Analytics, AI, GIS and GPS, Web and Mobile) will come to Nizhny Novgorod.
The result of the hackathon will be the creation of prototypes of IT services and products that will make the lives of people in the city more comfortable, and the best solutions will receive support for development!
You can come with a ready-made team or join the team on site.
Some tips from the author of this mini-post - how to use your hackathon time profitably?
- Think in advance about which topic topic is closest to you. Collect information, study Russian and foreign experience. Write down the main ideas that inspired you - donβt rely on your head, everything will fall out at the most inopportune moment.
- Take with you a laptop, smartphone(s), backup Internet access point (whistle or package tariff on a mobile phone), chargers. The most annoying thing is when, in the heat and heat of development, something is suddenly cut off and stops working.
- Try to look at the problem from different angles: as a resident, as a consumer of a service-product-project, as city authorities - there should be no conflict of interest or, for example, violations of anything (traffic regulations, laws, administrative rules).
- Quickly check whether the idea has already been implemented - who hasnβt happened to you when you start development crazy and inspired and - oops! - everything was invented before us.
- If you work as a team, assign roles and responsibilities in advance. All jokes aside, take someone with you who will ensure the vitality of the team: carry tea and water, charge devices, communicate with the organizers and simply act as an βamateur critic.β Such people are priceless.
- Don't forget a couple of pens and a notepad. There are no extra ones, even if they are given out.
And great luck to you! This city needs its own hero :)
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Source: habr.com