Posts Tagged ‘hackathon’

#SpaceApps Global Judging Open Now

| It's time to "…find groups of people, bring them together around an issue or problem that needs to be fixed, then step out of the way and let the collective energy of the people in the room come together and really take that data and solve things in creative and imaginative ways that we would never have done ourselves."

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100+ Reasons #SpaceApps Made a Difference

| The International Space Apps Challenge, held on 21-22 April 2012, was a very productive event. 100+ solutions were developed in less than 48 hours, and although a few teams are still submitting their solutions to the website, we wanted to provide a summary of the 100+ reasons what you did at the event made a [...]

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Preliminary Results from the International Space Apps Challenge

| 111 orgs, 25 cities, 17 countries, 2,083 pple, 71 challenges, 100+ solutions in 48 hours. This weekend, NASA successfully fulfilled a commitment on behalf of the United States as part of the Open Government Partnership Domestic Action Plan.  The stated goal of the event, per the US Action Plan, was to “promote innovation through international collaboration“. Space exploration [...]

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Coding for Better Government

| "When it comes to the big things we need to do together, are we just going to be a crowd of voices? Or are we also going to be a crowd of hands?”

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Are you ready to RHoK?

| Volunteers and Experts around the World Collaborate To Solve Global Challenges Through Random Hacks of Kindness

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Waterhackathon

| Note: We wanted to highlight another great project that NASA is supporting under the leadership of the World Bank. You see, the issues involved in insuring a clean water supply in less-developed countries aren’t so different from the issues we face insuring a clean water supply on the Space Station or on other planets. Interested [...]

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10 Reasons Why Government Should Embrace Hackathons

| Recently NYC’s Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne wrote an article about why cities (but really any level of government) should embrace the code-a-thon. We couldn’t agree more, so we wanted to post her list (slightly modified to include all government, not just NYC) on open.NASA and take this opportunity to encourage you to let you [...]

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