<p>A first-of-its-kind hackathon aimed at creating applications to empower communities in India with technology-based solutions to public service problems will be held next month at the Google campuses in Bangalore and California simultaneously.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Non-profit Code for India, which inspires techies to volunteer their time and talent to the developing world, today announced that parallel India-US hackathon will be held at the Google campuses in Bangalore and in Mountain View, California.<br /><br />Infosys founder and Chairman N R Narayan Murthy and Google senior vice president Amit Singhal will provide keynote remarks during the two-day event that will gather engineers interested in creating technology-based applications that empower poor populations to address specific public service delivery problems.<br /><br />"The transformative power of technology will aid India -- and other developing countries facing similar problems --fight the failing public service infrastructure," Karl Mehta, founder of Code for India and venture partner at Menlo Ventures.<br /><br />The hackathon is co-sponsored by the World Bank Institute, the World Bank Group's Open Finances team and Code For Resilience, a project of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and ICT Unit of the World Bank in partnership with Code for Japan.<br /><br />Other partners and supporters include Amazon, Cisco, Google, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), NASSCOM Foundation and AFI (Action for India).<br /><br />Mehta said a key theme of the event is making India more resilient to natural disasters like earthquakes, drought or cyclones.<br /><br />According to a statement, the World Bank Institute and the World Bank Group's Open Finances team have provided open data sets to 'Code for India' for the event.<br /><br />These data sets include development and financial data as well as existing public sector and IFC projects, and will be a critical resource for participants in the hackathon, it said.</p>
<p>A first-of-its-kind hackathon aimed at creating applications to empower communities in India with technology-based solutions to public service problems will be held next month at the Google campuses in Bangalore and California simultaneously.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Non-profit Code for India, which inspires techies to volunteer their time and talent to the developing world, today announced that parallel India-US hackathon will be held at the Google campuses in Bangalore and in Mountain View, California.<br /><br />Infosys founder and Chairman N R Narayan Murthy and Google senior vice president Amit Singhal will provide keynote remarks during the two-day event that will gather engineers interested in creating technology-based applications that empower poor populations to address specific public service delivery problems.<br /><br />"The transformative power of technology will aid India -- and other developing countries facing similar problems --fight the failing public service infrastructure," Karl Mehta, founder of Code for India and venture partner at Menlo Ventures.<br /><br />The hackathon is co-sponsored by the World Bank Institute, the World Bank Group's Open Finances team and Code For Resilience, a project of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and ICT Unit of the World Bank in partnership with Code for Japan.<br /><br />Other partners and supporters include Amazon, Cisco, Google, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), NASSCOM Foundation and AFI (Action for India).<br /><br />Mehta said a key theme of the event is making India more resilient to natural disasters like earthquakes, drought or cyclones.<br /><br />According to a statement, the World Bank Institute and the World Bank Group's Open Finances team have provided open data sets to 'Code for India' for the event.<br /><br />These data sets include development and financial data as well as existing public sector and IFC projects, and will be a critical resource for participants in the hackathon, it said.</p>