City to Hold App-Making Competition
Reported by Erna Martiyanti | Translated by Trias Risangayu
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.