Vote For Your Favorite SpaceApps Challenge Project Now

Space Apps Challenge may have ended and Panggi Akadol’s OpenTEC project won the local event but the global voting for people’s choice award is open. We submitted our top two best apps among the twenty that came through the Challenge weekend to the global competition and it’s time to support our developers!

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Two Days to International Space Apps Challenge

International Space Apps Challenge 2013 is two days away and we’re excited to announce that we’ve shot past 100 registered participants from several different cities across Indonesia. As a result, we’re working on getting two other cities to host as our satellite venues for this weekend.

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Jakarta’s International Space Apps Challenge to be Held at Freeware

On April 20-21 2012, DailySocial and @america held the inaugural International Space Apps Challenge, an event run by NASA across 25 locations around the world (including on the International Space Station). There were 2000 participants spending two days working, collaborating, engaging, coding, and creating solutions to assist in space and earth explorations. This year, we’ll be doing it again, with 50 more locations participating.

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Jakarta Siap Menyambut International Space Apps Challenge

DailySocial, berkolaborasi dengan Kedutaaan Ameria Serikat untuk Indonesia dan Pusat Kebudayan Amerika – @america akan mengadakan acara International Space Apps Challenge pada bulan April, tepatnya tanggal 21 – 22 April 2012. International Space Apps Challenge merupakan sebuah acara untuk ‘menantang’ para pengembang perangkat lunak dalam menghadirkan program atau aplikasi yang bisa memecahkan masalah dan tantangan yang dapat membantu NASA serta ilmuwan di seluruh dunia dalam memecahkan berbagai isu global. Acara ini diselenggarakan secara global di lebih dari 20 kota di dunia serta di International Space Station yang sedang mengitari planet.

Dengan diadakannya acara International Space Apps Challenge ini kurang dari dua minggu lagi, kami berbicang dengan Alice Llewellyn dari tim penyelenggara pusat untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut tentang acara, tujuan acara, serta apa yang mereka harapkan dengan penyelenggaraan kompetisi ini. Kami juga bertanya mengapa Jakarta menjadi pilihan di antara kota lain mengingat Indonesia bukan negara yang berorientasi pada luar angkasa. Berikut wawancara kami dengan Alice.

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Jakarta Heats Up for International Space Apps Challenge

DailySocial, in collaboration with the Embassy of the United States in Indonesia and with American cultural center @america, are holding International Space Apps Challenge on April 21-22. The Space Apps Challenge is an event for software developers to come up with programs or applications that solve particular challenges and tasks that may help NASA and scientists worldwide in figuring out various global issues. The event is being held globally across more than twenty cities as well as on the International Space Station currently orbiting the planet.

With the International SpaceApps Challenge coming up in just under two weeks, we spoke with Alice Llewellyn from the core organizing team to reveal more about the event, the motivation behind it, and what is expected from having held this competition. We also asked why Jakarta was chosen as one of the host cities when Indonesia has not been known to be a space-oriented nation. The interview is available after the jump.

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