The City of Helsinki is looking for new ways to support the developers to utilize open data in order to create digital services for the citizens. Open Helsinki Hack at Home program is launched on the 14 of June 2013, and it encourages developers to create useful applications. The underlying themes of the program are transparency of the city decision-making and enabling better feedback from the citizens to the civil servants.

The program focuses on relevant themes for the active citizen. These themes emphasize the openness of the city decision-making and solutions that enable feedback between the citizens and the City of Helsinki. In addition, the program calls for applications that enable tourists to experience Helsinki in a unique way.

Open Helsinki – Hack at Home program is open to everyone interested in developing digital services for the City of Helsinki. Anyone can participate by bringing an idea to solve a challenge – or contributing personal skills for others to use. All applications created in the Open Helsinki – Hack at Home program automatically participate in the Apps4Finland competition that offers cash prizes and visibility for good applications and their authors.

Register and submit your initial app idea before June 28th! at http://openhelsinki.hackathome.com/

For further information: openhelsinki@hackathome.com

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AppCircus ha reunido las apps más emergentes en el escenario Hands On Area del Sónar +D, un área del Sónar en la que marcas de tecnología musical, de movilidad y creadores de apps han podido mostrar y explicar directamente al público sus últimas novedades.

Apps participantes

Samplr, que permite hacer música y manipular el sonido de una forma nueva.

Soundkik, la primera aplicación social que permite reproducir a cada usuario la música que le gusta, ver qué está sonando en cualquier lugar y con la que es posible estar al día sobre las últimas tendencias musicales.

Eyeborgapp, una aplicación móvil Android que recrea la experiencia de ser un cyborg como Neil Harbisson y escuchar el sonido de los colores, creando y compartiendo partituras de color.

Splyce, una app de iOS que realiza montajes de fotos y vídeos en alta definición de una manera muy sencilla.

Spreaker, una app disponible en Android, iOS y HTML5, que permite crear contenidos de audio en vivo y compartirlos en las redes sociales.

Rework, una aplicación que ofrece un recorrido interactivo por el nuevo álbum de remixes de Philip Glass.

Borderlands, un nuevo instrumento musical para el iPad, que permite explorar, tocar y transformar sonidos y crear complejos timbres y texturas.

Dj Vadim: Don't be Scared Immersive Album, que permite descargar la música de este artista con audio interactivo, letras, ilustraciones y vídeos.

VisuaMusio, una app para iPad, que permite hacer "animaciones musicales visuales", mediante formas en un lienzo en blanco, que se convierte en canción.

Ninja Jamm, del prestigioso sello Ninja Tune, que permite realizar cualquier remix musical, que ofrece una fusión de la música y el software para el iPhone, iPod touch e iPad.

Build at home an app that helps cities better handle tourism

The Open Data Tourism Hack-at-Home (http://opencities.hackathome.com) is a free entry competition, and your chance to create apps to help cities manage the challenges of tourism. Your app can be seen and used by millions of European citizens and the best bit is - it remains all yours!

Shape the future of your city today!

Everyday, governments and government agencies, publish more data on the Internet than anyone else - use their information for FREE!

Hack your app at home with the help of our experts

By participating in the Open Data Tourism Hack at Home challenge, you will have the opportunity to turn your ideas into working apps through the Hack-at-Home platform and the guidance of our mentors.

Make money from your app idea!

The most successful online brands we know today are built on open source and are using some kind of open data.

Enter the Open Data Tourism Hack-at-Home, it could be just the beginning.

The clock is ticking! Register now and send us your ideas!

Its easy.

1. Register to the http://opencities.hackathome.com and send us your app idea.

2. Build your app at home with the help of our experts and fellow developers

3. Submit your app to the online competition and win!

The winning app will receive a 3.000€ award prize and a nomination for the Mobile Premier Awards, the most prestigious awards in the app industry.

The Open Data App Challenge deadline for ideas and feedback is June 5th, 2013!

*The Open Data Tourism Hack-at-Home powered by AppCircus is made possible by eight participating European cities including, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bologna, Berlin, Helsinki, Paris, Rome and UK-NESTA (UK cities involved in the project through NESTA).

Open Cities has just launched a new call-out to take part in the Open Data Tourism Hack at Home challenge (http://opencities.hackathome.com), a project focused on encouraging the creation of mobile apps to help cities to better manage the challenges and benefits of tourism.

The project, dedicated to Open Data and Sensor Networks, will allow  Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Helsinki, Paris, Rome and Bologna to benefit from the talents of app creators to find solutions for managing tourism in the urban space. One of the main goals of the challenge is to develop apps that can minimize the impact of mass tourism on the city and its inhabitants. For example, the Open Data Tourism Hack at Home is looking for mobile technology solutions that will allow residents to connect with visitors, improve and personalize tourist itineraries, optimize the time for visits and improve the opportunities for tourists to move around the city during their stay.

The winning app will receive a 3.000 € award app and a nomination for the Mobile Premier Awards, the most prestigious awards in the app industry.  The app that best uses systems of Open Data and Sensor Networks in participating cities will also be recognized, alongside the most voted-for app by the public.

Anyone interested in taking part in the challenge can pre-register at the Open Data Tourism Hack at Home challenge website. From May 13, participants can send their ideas for apps, start building teams and receive feedback from the mentors.

At the same time, Open Cities has also launched in parallel a call for larger solutions, services or technologies related to the same Tourism issues, to participate to its Urban Lab Challenge (http://opencities.net/urban_lab_challenge). This is a challenge focused on using the city resources for experimentation with innovative software or other project in a real urban environment. The winner of this challenge will get €3000 prize and the support and guidance of the city of Barcelona to implement his proposal.