Implementing some impressively artistic ideas selected from a "hackathon" that took place earlier this year, the Urban Vision is now crowd-sourcing a skilled group of Mumbaikars to shape these disused sites, bringing together architects, landscapers, artists and "city enthusiasts" for an inclusive community-led project to start on Monday 24 November.
The service was set up during a hackathon hosted by German technology hub Ampion.
The hackathon involved 50 participants travelling more than 600 miles across five west African countries on a five-day road trip.
In 2013 she organised a hackathon, Pakistan's first, where for a whole weekend people brainstormed new ideas and apps to make Karachi work better.
Now a bunch of philanthropic geeks at DataKind, a New York-based charity, are helping other do-gooders work more productively and quantify their achievements for donors, who like to see that their money is well spent.A typical DataKind two-day "hackathon" last month in London attracted 50 people who worked in three teams.
LADY GAGA'S business manager, Troy Carter, will judge an eight-hour hackathon at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, on March 11th.
On the eve of its IPO, the firm staged an all-night "hackathon", in which programmers coded into the wee hours, as a signal that it intends to stay true to its start-up roots.
In November last year it held a 25-hour "hackathon" during which techies created new tools to boost the prospects of reform.
ReprintsIn a previous hackathon in San Francisco, DataKind volunteers analysed the data from Mobilising Health, a non-profit group that connects rural patients in India with doctors in cities that are usually many hours away.
In a one-day hackathon students Sherif Maktabi and Satara Achille created an app named Sex with Glass, a piece of software for Google's wearable computer that offers users a roster of digital enhancements activated by those four magic words.
When the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck! hackathon, a collection of roughly a hundred and fifty engineers, designers, midwives, and parents, began on Saturday morning at M.I.T., the atmosphere was part revival meeting, part product launch.
