29-30 October 2016

Cogite coworking space, Tunis, Tunisia

The IEEE Tunisia section Hackathon “Apps for Democracy” is an opportunity to foster innovation from the academic and professional communities. Our goal is to raise awareness of the public data to offer better services and enhance the quality of life for the citizens and consumers.

We believe that promotional vehicles, like a hackathon event, will raise awareness in our academic and professional communities and act as a springboard to innovative software solutions.

Scope:

Mobile devices have become essential tools for bringing new economic opportunities to parts of the world that may have no other access to computing technologies or other forms of communication. The ability to provide real time information and to extract pertinent data can create new job opportunities and more importantly save lives. Anyone with access to a mobile device can be provided access to education and other information to help their endeavors.

Here is your chance to help improve Tunisia! The Apps for Democracyis a competition for development of mobile and web apps that will have a positive impact on improving Tunisia. The availability of rich datasets from the open data portal (www.data.gov.tn) has opened new possibilities for web and mobile application developers to create apps that will engage and serve our community.

Create a mobile or web app that:

• Provides a service that is friendly and convenient, and will enhance the quality of life in Tunisia;
• Enriches the activities of residents, businesses and visitors; AND
• Utilizes open data

In addition to submitting an app, one per individual participant or a team, you will be required to submit a technical description explaining how your app works, and what it will accomplish. Remember that mobile devices have cameras and GPS, and so think about using these features. The app does not need to run on all Android, iOS, or Windows mobile devices, just on one of these will be sufficient.

FREE Registration and Submission: <link> (Team: 2 persons ; Deadline: 23 October 2016)

Only selected projects will be invited to participate to the Hackathon on 29-30 October 2016.

Open Data: www.data.gov.tn

Examples: appsfordemocracy.tn/sources-de-donnees/exemple-dapps/

French version: appsfordemocracy.tn

Prizes:

1. 2000 TND + Tablet + Smartphone
2. Tablet + Smartphone
3. Tablet + Smartphone

+ Carthage Business Angels will help winners to develop and maintain your start-ups!

+ Presenting your apps in the National Innovation forum

Agenda:

• Saturday 29 October
  • 9 am Opening
  • 10 am Contact with mentors
  • 2pm Development
• Sunday 30 October
  • Development and reporting
  • 5 pm Jury
  • 7 pm Results announcement

Mentors:

• Mr. Abelhamid Jarmouni, Open Gov Tunisia
• Ms. Aicha Karafi, Ministry of Finance
• Mr. Amine Jelassi, DC Group
• Mr. Chiheb Bouchnak, Tunisian eGovernance Society
• Mr. Hatem Ben Sta, University of Tunis
• Mr. Karim Bani, Web Apps Engineer
• Mr. Maher Kallel, President of Carthage Business Angels
• Ms. Ilhem Kallel, IEEE Tunisia section chapter coordinator
• Mr. Mohamed Samir Turki,Xprime Advertising
• Mr. Nader Yamoun,Google Business Group
• Mr. Taher Mestiri, Tuniandroid & I.T.GRAPES

Evaluation:

The selection of a winner will be determined by our panel of expert judges using the following criteria:

• Originality
• Concept andConviviality
• Design andTechnical quality
• Added value
• Sustainability
• Bonus: Mobile and Web app

Jury:

• Will be announced soon.

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