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City to Hold App-Making Competition

Jakarta City Administration again to hold Hackathon Jakarta (#Hackjack). This competition is kind of application development whereupon the chosen app will be used on portal open data that slated will be launched on June 30 by Jakarta Governor, Basuki “Ahok” T. Purnama.

Citizen’s participation is a vital foundation in developing better city

Head of Smart City Technical Management Unit, Setiaji acknowledged that the competition means as a tool to develop smart city yet tech-friendly by involving Jakartans. By this means the improvement of public service will be accelerated as well. “Citizen’s participation is a vital foundation in developing better city," he said, Monday (6/29).

Thereupon, Head of City Department of Communication, Informatics and Public Relations (Diskominfomas), Raides Aryanto conveyed through refreshment concept, this year hackjack will show something different from last year which is not solely create and develop application but held three different kind of competitions namely Hackathon, Scrapathon, dan Visualthon.

He explained over those competitions as follow;

1) Hackathon is kind of competition that creating general app and game collectively in a specific period by using portal open data and other official sources.

2) Scarpthon is a data scrapping competition belongs to City Administration in a particular period to be feasible open format data publicly and repeatedly.

3) Visualthon is a legible infographic competition over City Administration service sourced from City portal open data.

At that moment, the number of Hackjack participants reached out over 200 participants which is beyond committees expectation. Out of 53 applications over 200 participants were created. While this year it targeted until 430 participants with 100 applications, 180 open datas and 50 infographics within a week.

“We did our best on last year hackjack, this year we hope it could be more success than previous one,” he said.

Aryanto added the competition held by involving 30 judges that represent professional figure, public service, society organizations, and academics with each of their expertise.

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