3.7: Reinvent Green Hackathon
Host New York City's first sustainability hackathon: Reinvent Green Other Information:
Reinvent Green -- Inspired by the success of the City's first hackathon, Reinvent NYC.gov, the City announced in April 2012
its first sustainability hackathon: Reinvent Green, a joint initiative of NYC Digital and the Mayor's Office of Long-term
Planning and Sustainability. Hosted at NYU-Poly in Downtown Brooklyn over the weekend of Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July
1, 2012, the hackathon rallied and incentivized the City's best technology talent to create digital tools, web and mobile
applications that encouraged a greener, greater New York City. To this end, a number of City agencies released new data sets
around information on City-owned infrastructure, energy usage, public spaces data, as well as updated information on the City's
sustainability indicators. The City partnered with two established Brooklyn technology institutions on this initiative-NYU-Poly
and Brooklyn Beta, and was proud to team up once again with the talented technology community, as well as prominent API and
technical partners, to collaboratively address the City's most important sustainability challenges. Over one weekend, more
than 100 developers and designers gathered to create digital tools and apps using the City's open data sets that focus on
encouraging sustainability. A panel of judges evaluated 13 team projects and selected the five winning apps in the pre-determined
categories.
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