Hackathon Betacowork Open Data Sessions

The Betacowork Open Data Hackathon on air quality, city traffic flow and road accidents

Make an impact on society by using Open Data (and your brain).

Join us at Betacowork on December the 28th and 29th to compete in this end-of-year Open Data Hackathon.

We welcome designers, developers, data scientists, visualisation experts, academics, copy writers, translators, poets and anyone into Open Data, code, pixels and prose.

We look forward to collaborate on applications based on Open Data sources (eg road safety), but also to create some open data sets ourselves with sensors (reporting air quality and traffic flows). The subjects for this hackathon are centred around mobility, smart cities and air quality. Sounds like something you’d be interested in? Great. You can additionally join us on Wednesday evening for a preparatory meeting (or conference call) to further prepare the subjects for a fresh start on Thursday morning. The organisers will provide a backend data platform and ‘open hardware’ (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, sensors and camera’s) to sharpen your skills. We also foresee a hands-on ‘how to solder’-session in which you learn to connect sensors (and to repair those broken electronics at home) on Thursday.

You will meet like-minded people. Egaged citizens who love solving problems, not only for themselves, but for society as a whole. People who love to make an impact, even when there is no apparent short term reward at stake (oh, but in our case there is..). Challenge yourself by challenging others and work your Open Data magic. We are expecting you in Betacowork!

You might just accidentally invent a solution for the vast mobility issues or ongoing air quality concerns. Now, wouldn’t THAT be the very best way to say goodbye to 2017 and kick-off 2018 with an inspiring act for the greater good? We guarantee your 2017 karma-points get carried over to the next year too :)

In a nutshell

• Why? To learn about Open Data and how it can help society progress. (+ the great prize you can win of course)
• What? In two days, we will disover the possibilities of Open Data and Sensors and how it can have a positive impact on society. Some definite subjects are centered around mobility, smart cities and air quality.
• Who? The session will be moderated by Toon Vanagt and experts such as Kasper Van Lombeek from Rockestate, Dries Van Ransbeeck from Open Knowledge, Sagacify, Zensor (more exiting coaches will be added soon).

Prize? 

• 5 X Win 2 months of half-time co-working space at Betacowork.com (€-value: 340 ex VAT)
• 5 X Win an Arduino with sensors to measure air quality
• 5 X Win a Raspberry Pi with 8MP camera to measure traffic

December 28th and 29th, (with a preparatory Google hangout on Wednesday evening for those who want to prepare ) (Room Azzar, 1st floor on the left)

We can offer a low entrance fee of 15€ thanks to the support of of Impulse.brussels ,Nexttech.brussels  and ICAB
Job seekers in Brussels and students can even score a free ticket

With the help of Open Knowledge Belgium, Civic Lab, Data.be, Sagacify, Rockestate, Zensor and many more