Challenges

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Citizen Cyberspace Crowdsourcing Challenge This challenge requires participants to create crowdsourcing applications to aid in disaster management and response efforts UNITAR/UNOSAT
Citizen Cyberspace Geo-tagging Challenge This challenge requires participants to create intelligent geotagging implementations that enhance satellite imagery UNITAR/UNOSAT
Open Law Challenge This challenge requires the creation of a system that facilitates data acquisition, refinement, and submission of local and state law code into the Open Law Index NeoCodex
Social Media and the Law Challenge This challenge requires the creation of new methods for visualizing impact through social graphs and geolocation NeoCodex
How to Make a Makerspace This challenge requires the creation of an "out of the box" resource to assist in building a Makerspace Hatch Athens
Open Data Challenge How open is your city, actually? Give your city it’s open data report card. NDoCH
Asteroid Detection Network Challenge We aim to bring together governmental/research institutions with private individuals for achieving more rapid and efficient follow-up observations of newly detected asteroids, focusing on NEOs that may pose a threat to us. NDoCH
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Hack For Athens 2013 | Challenges

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Safe Drinking Water Challenge This challenge requires participants to create documents containing relevant EPA violation information and statistics that can be given directly to each regulating agency responsible. Samuel Bronson | EPA
Athens Affordable Internet Challenge This challenge will require participants to develop a strategy for providing affordable internet access to low-income neighborhoods within Athens-Clarke county that have low broadband subscription rates. Nina Kelly
Athens Alive Challenge This challenge requires that a visual model for Athens be built that integrates social media into existing information, data, and views. Open Block Oakland
Open Data Portal Challenge This challenge requires the creation of a system that promotes openness, transparency, and accountability of local government by providing high-value government data in standards compliant, machine readable formats. CKAN
Local Banking Benefits Challenge This challenge requires the creation of an interactive map that conveys that banking locally is not just convenient, but that moving your money to a local bank benefits the community as a whole. Becky Sweger
Athens OpenStreetMap Challenge This challenge requires the creation of an Athens OpenStreetMap that contains information such as bus routes, bike lanes, etc. Jason Woofenden
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