Environment

Quality of the environment. Availability. Environmental protection, monitoring. Air. Water. Forests. Soil.  Effects of climate change in the environment.  Awareness and participation.

Safety

Public order. Civil protection. Floods. Critical situations. Evacuation. Events. Education. Digital security.

Transport

Smart mobility. Access to public transport, timetables, load. Transport type, flow and availability of infrastructure. Sharing. Sensor networks.

Medicine

Access to health care. Healthy lifestyle and physical activity. Social assistance, protection of children's rights.

Education

Preschool, basic education, secondary education. Lifelong learning. After school education. Support, organization, availability.

Development

Planning of cities,  regions. Utilities. Territory improvement. Business support. Reducing unemployment. Tourism.

Inhabitants

Population dynamics. Citizen and public participation. E-participation in events, decision-making.

The special task of the Cesis municipality: How many people are there in Cesis in reality?

Culture

Preservation of historical and contemporary values. Creativity. Events. Accessibility, development, support.

WHAT DATA WILL BE AVAILABLE?

• Data from the Latvian Open Data Portal containing more than 250 datasets on the following topics: Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, Health, Transport, Education, Culture, Economy and Entrepreneurship, Population and Society, and other data on regions and municipalities.

• European Union open data portals:

  • https://data.europa.eu/euodp/data/

  • https://www.europeandataportal.eu/

• Open Land Use Map:  https://sdi4apps.eu/open_land_use/

• Smart Point of Interest: https://gis.zcu.cz/spoi/

• Copernicus services data: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/

• Open Transport Map: http://opentransportmap.info/

• Transport flow data in Jelgava 

• other data. 

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Participants may combine the data sets listed above with other open data sets not listed here. It is mandatory to use at least one data set from the Latvian open data portal: https://data.gov.lv.

Participants  may use application interfaces such as the INSPIRE Hackathon web APIs or those provided by HERE Technologies.

HERE Developer portal: https://developer.here.com

XYZ Studio: https://xyz.here.com

Docs: https://developer.here.com/documentation

Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/heretech

Code: https://github.com/heremaps

Help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/here-api

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WHAT TOOLS WILL BE AVAILABLE?

Fair use of

technology

We expect participants to use their own computers and software during the hackathon. Given the limited time of the event, we encourage participants to prepare computers with the required development environment prior to the event. We encourage fair use of technology and expect participants to comply with all applicable copyright rules for the technology used during the event.

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VR | Teams will have access to VR equipment such as Oculus Go, Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift. As well as a pre-made Unity framework. Teams planning to work with VR during the hackathon should contact mentor Mareks Zirdziņš about the setup in advance.

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Participants will have access to the University of Latvia MII cloud-based Hadoop  platform with big data processing technologies that allows you to analyze all datasets as one large database. The platform will have imported multiple datasets from data.gov.lv, and it will be able to import others.

WHAT RESULTS ARE WE EXPECTING?

Open Data
Technology
Business idea

The result must be a prototype of an original, innovative mobile or web application that benefits the municipality, its entrepreneurs, residents, tourists.

Please note that the prototype must be original, not previously published in similar competitions, in whole or in part. The result must not be in contravention of Latvian legislation and copyright.


Evaluation criteria:
Open Data: The solution uses open data in an innovative way for the benefit of the public or a part of it.
Technical implementation: The solution uses open standards and the latest technologies in an innovative way. We recommend publishing the code as open source. Open source publishing is optional, but the project whose code will be published as open source will have a higher rating.
Viability of the idea / socio-economic benefits.

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The results will be evaluated by a jury consisting of representatives from VARAM, LATA, organizers, partners and mentors.

Open Data Hackathon for Municipalities  jury  members:

1. Mikus Jēkabsons, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of the Republic of Latvia

2. Jānis Treijs, Latvian Open Technology Association

3. Jānis Tupulis, Tieto

4. Martin Švec, HERE

5. Raimonds Simanovskis, eazyBI

6. Ričards Gailums, Valmieras municipality

7. Michal Kepka, Plan4all project

8. Andrus Kurvits, Tartu Science Park

9. Jānis Upenieks, Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments

10. Tuula Löytty, Smart&Lean

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?

Anyone who has an idea how to create apps from open data.

Anyone who

wants to put ideas into action!

We invite anyone, including:

• Ideas people:  Apply if you have an idea what problem could be solved with open data.

• Technology people: Apply if you're a developer, coder, graphic and interface designer, GIS expert or UX / UI expert.

• Data people:  Apply if you are interested in open data, you have the skills to process, analyze, and visualize data, you are a data data journalist or data community activist.

Local government employees and new or emerging entrepreneurs are particularly welcome. Both students and experienced professionals are welcome!

Participants must be over 18 years old. If you are under the age of 18 but are interested in participating in a hackathon, you should contact the organizers for participating terms. 

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Participants can apply both individually and in teams (2-5 people). For those applying individually, it will be possible to form teams during the hackathon.

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Expected participants: 80. Participation in the hackathon is free.

WHY TO PARTICIPATE?

24 hours spent with interesting and creative people!

• You will prove your skills as a developer, coder, data analyst, industry professional.

• You will improve your professional skills.

• You will gain valuable professional experience to add to your CV.

• You will meet Latvian and foreign open data experts.

• You will make contacts useful in your future professional life.

• A chance to win a money prize and various promotional prizes.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Contact:

Participants must provide themselves with a computer and other work equipment.

Participants should bring a mat and sleeping bag if they plan to sleep.

The organizers provide catering.

If you plan to get from Riga to Valmiera by public transport, the train leaves Riga Central Station at 10:34 and arrive in Valmiera at 12:57, but the bus departs from Riga SAO 10:50 and arrives in Valmiera at 13:00. 

There will be a shuttle bus for participants to Riga after the event.

Hackathon language - Latvian and English.
Coordinator of Hackathon: Ieva Vitolina, e-mail: