EUhackathon 2011
The first edition of the EUhackathon took place on the 8th and 9th of November 2011 in Brussels.
This hack-a-thon brought together 54 participants from 17 different nationalities to work on two challenges around the theme of transparency on the Internet.
- Measurement Lab (M-Lab) is an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. Coders worked on updating this code as a means to provide consumers with greater knowledge about the quality and speed of their Internet connections.
- Google's Transparency Report shows the number of government inquiries for information about users and requests to remove content from their services. Coders worked to improve this, by creating new and interesting visualizations.
EU Vice-President Neelie Kroes incharge of the Digital Agenda offered her support and congratulations at the Awards Ceremony.
The hackathon winners were:
For the Internet Quality Track measuring network speeds:- First Prize: Team Ferioli (Federica Cau, Pasquale De Luna and Nicola Ferioli) – Italy - with Internet Performance Analysis
- Second Prize: Team Maggi (Federico Maggi, Roman Kochanek, Francesco Roveta, Alessandro Frossi, Alberto Volpato) – Italy
- Third Prize: Team Artimon (Alexandru Artimon, Ionut Dobre, Florin Barhala, Walter Schneider) – Romania
For the Global Transparency Track:
- First Prize: UN-Team (Sven Clement, Hauke Gierow, Stefan Wehrmeyer) – Luxembourg And Germany - with their game: ‘Beat the Censor‘
- Second Prize: Niels Rasmussen – Denmark
- Third Prize: Team Indigeni Digitali (Giuliano Iacobelli, Alessandro Manfredi, Claudio Squarcella, David Funaro, Matteo Collina) – Italy
(via Google Policy Blog and http://www.euhackathon.eu/)
