To address the future of urbanization and the growing stress levels on the citizens living in metros, The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) 10,000 Startups along with Bengaluru City Police, Embarq India, HackerEarth and IBM, is set to host a two day hackathon ‘The Urban Hack’ on October 3rd and 4th 2015.
This will be first-ever smart city hackathon aimed at improving transportation, crime prevention and public safety through the use of technology.
Urban Hack is being organized with an aim to use disruptive technology in order to reduce city’s traffic woes and increase public safety. Developers will be invited to participate in the 24 hours coding marathon which will be held both online and offline. The 10K Start-up Warehouse in Bengaluru will host participants who wish to choose an offline venue, while HackerEarth will host the online participants through its platform. Registrations for the hackathon will be open from today to September 30th.
The participants of the hackathon will get access to IBM’s cloud based technologies and mentors for further guidance. The winners will get to work closely with the Bengaluru city police to pilot the applications. Apart from this, they will get an opportunity to showcase their applications before seed investors and prominent VCs and win an opportunity to qualify for the NASSCOM 10k program. Supporting this hackathon are IBM and EMBARQ India. EMBARQ India will provide all the necessary data on transport.
Rajat Tandon, VP, NASSCOM 10,000 start-ups Program, said, “Urban Hack is one such initiative with Bengaluru City Police, IBM and HackerEarth to empower citizens of India and to support government institutions to deliver tech enabled solutions for the 21st century.”
