AFarCloud in cooperation with the EO4Agri, DataBio, NextGEOSS, EUXDAT and PoliVisu H2020 projects is organising the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon 2019 (https://www.plan4all.eu/nairobi-inspire-hackathon-2019/) as part of the INSPIRE Hackathon series led by the Plan4all association.
The hackathon is organised in the frame of the IST-Africa 2019 conference, which is supported by the European Commission (EC) and the African Union Commission (AUC) and addresses a series of societal challenges.
The Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon 2019 is a contribution to the joint efforts to solve these challenges. The hackathon addresses some of the key topics identified by the IST-Africa conference, such as agriculture, environmental sustainability, collaborative open innovation and ICT-enabled entrepreneurship.
The goal of the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon 2019 is to build and strengthen relationships between several EU projects and African communities. This hackathon is not a competition. The focus is on building relationships, making rapid developments and collecting ideas for future research and innovation.
There is a set of predefined projects/challenges. One of the is dedicated to AFarCloud – TEAM no 4 IoT Technologies for Africa led by Michal Kepka/University of West Bohemia. This team will explore available IoT networks, their coverage and available open data sources including data from meteorological stations, data on weather forecast, traffic cameras, public transport and agriculture phenomena. This team will also explore the way data can be exchanged between different sensor devices and platforms and stored using the SensLog 2.0.
Anyone interested can visit the hackathon website at https://www.plan4all.eu/nairobi-inspire-hackathon-2019/ and register at https://goo.gl/VME2ZG