The 48-hour hackathon gathered over 90 IT developers, designers, students, data experts, disaster experts, and ordinary citizens under one roof to collaborate in teams and develop locally relevant Web and mobile applications to help solve Disaster Risk Management (DRM) challenges.
The DOST, through the Information and Communications Technology Office (ICT Office), has started a series of start-up workshops this year, which will be held in various cities of Lingayen, Iligan, Tuguegarao, Naga, Dumagete, and General Santos City.
A sign that the Philippine tech scene is indeed starting to mature, the Founder Institute ? said to be the world's largest start-up launch program -- has officially launched its chapter in Manila.
The Open Data Philippines Task Force has announced that it is holding the second of its series of hackathons, titled ?Readysaster: Hack for Resilience,? which will take place on May 10-11, 2014.
With about eight million local users, Israel-based Viber is one of the top -- if not the biggest -- messaging apps in the country. It competes with the likes of China?s WeChat, Korea?s KakaoTalk, US's WhatsApp, and Japan?s Line.
As the country's netizens continue to be ever more hyper-social, WeChat said it is urging businesses to be more creative in reaching their target consumers online by being present in social media platforms.
Brainly, a Polish online platform that connects students worldwide, has opened a localized version of its site in an attempt to link up Filipino students to their global counterparts.
A group of young Japanese, Filipino, and Indian nationals is set to represent the Philippines at the 2014 Echelon tech start-up competition in Singapore come June this year for their mobile rewards platform which allows users to enjoy ?Libreng Load? (Free Mobile Airtime) for calls, text, and Internet browsing.
