Open Data Hackathon by Kolba Lab

For more information visit: www.kolba.am
 

On December 3-4th, Kolba Lab invites you to participate in an Open Data Hackathon, a two-day event aimed at using government data to generate innovative solutions to a range of Armenia’s social challenges. Can government-owned open datasets help to design tools for more efficient state governance? What might we discover by applying the latest technological tools to the millions of individual data records that are collected? 
We want to ask you: what could you do if we gave you an entire database?

So if you like to liberate data, then MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER for the event before November 27th by following the link https://goo.gl/forms/F7YNwUMOEl66AdHl1. Once you do, you can learn more about the available tools and datasets, get access to trainings on possible applications, create visualizations and engage in a network of open data scientists.

Day one (December 3rd) will consists of a series of practial workshops, where you will gain an overview of the available open datasets and corresponding tech tools, as well as an understanding of the challenges faced when working with Open Data. Only after going through the working round, participants will team up around certain topics that are of most interest. Teams will work on the development of a specific solution to a specific dataset. During the hackathon, each team will choose a certain dataset to work on to create a prototype of the suggested product.

At the end of the 2nd day each team will have 5-7 minutes to present their data product. A panel of evaluators will decide on the best data solutions and the winning projects will be incubated by Kolba Lab.
The teams are encouraged to propose two main types of products: user friendly format and/or accessible design of existing datasets, and analytical tools which can be built on existing databases.