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MoDev East Hackathon 2013 NJVC Geospatial Prize
The document announces a new geospatial category for a hackathon hosted by NJVC, an IT services company. The geospatial category invites mobile applications that incorporate location-based functionality. Examples of use cases for such applications include showing blood donors on a map, aiding disaster relief efforts, and assisting pilots with navigation. The competition will judge entries based on criteria like originality, usability, and how much they benefit users and leverage geospatial data. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three finishers.
MoDev East Hackathon 2013 NJVC Geospatial Prize
- 1. MoDev DC 2013Hackathon – Geospatial Category
- 2. Introduction Happy and Honoredto Be with the Hackathon Community About NJVC® NJVC specializes in supporting highly secure, complex IT enterprises in mission-critical environments, particularly for the intelligence and defense communities. NJVC offers a wide breadth of IT and strategic solutions to our customers, ranging from consulting to managed services in six business areas: Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Data Center Services, Healthcare IT, IT Services and Print Solutions. NJVC supports our customers at multiple locations on six continents— wherever our customers need us. We also are proud to have staff directly stationed on the front lines with our troops.
- 3. Geospatial Category We HaveIntroduced a New Category of Prizes Mobile applications that have a geospatial component Why? The convergence of geospatial and crowdsourced information and the explosion of mobile technologies offer exciting opportunities for innovation to meet many challenges to improve people’s lives and the operations of the governments that serve them. NJVC offers a wide breadth of IT and strategic solutions to our customers, ranging from consulting to managed services in six business areas: Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Data Center Services, Healthcare IT, IT Services and Print Solutions
- 4. Geospatial App Description CoreFunctionality Mobile applications that have a geospatial component Use Case Scenarios Red Cross: Show blood donors within a 5/10 mile radius; send blood need alerts to their phones Humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (e.g., roads affected, new routes) Pilot assistance (e.g., Waze for pilots) Sea navigation assistance: Pirate tagging, sea routes, ships around GPS location: Real-time tagging Flood risk zone: Elevation display (e.g., Where is the nearest safe place by a flood?)
- 5. Criteria Originality Intuitiveness Incorporation of Touchscreen Gestures (Touch,Swipe, Pinch, Etc.) Value Value to novice users Values to expert users Feature Richness Extent of Geospatial Data Usage Usability Performance
- 6. Prizes First Prize: $1,000 SecondPrize: $500 Third Prize: $250
- 7. That’s It Questions? Thank You! HaveFun! www.njvc.com NJVC and Driven by Your Mission are registered trademarks of NJVC, LLC. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Use does not imply endorsement.