Organiser: World Bank
Venue: IIITB, Electronic City, Bangalore
After the World Bank’s Water Resource Strategy was created, the Bank’s water lending commitments have increased significantly, the quality of the water portfolio has been turned around, and the outcome project rating now outperforms the Bank average. The 2010 mid-cycle implementation progress report, Water for All in a Changing Climate, and the Sustainable Infrastructure Action Plan continue to guide the Bank’s strategy for managing water resources.
Description:
The Water Hackathon aims to challenge water experts and software developers from around the world to co-create the innovative solutions needed to help solve today's water problems. A World Bank initiative, the Hackathon aims 'to seed a new community' that brings together software engineers and water experts to identify critical global challenges and project specific problems in order to develop software to respond to them.
The Water Hackathon is a two-day marathon software coding event in multiple global locations bringing together software developers from all over to hack on real-world water problems. The event is to be simultaneously conducted in five other locations across the globe. The World Bank is partnering with the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) and India Water Portal to organise and conduct the Water Hackathon in Bangalore for the South Asia region, where the aim is to develop software applications for mobile phones that might be useful for the water community and/or for the general public.
Venue:
Indian Institute of Information Technology
26/C, Electronic City,
Hosur Road,
Bangalore 560100
E: info@iiitb.ac.in
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