Buffalo Launches Civic Innovation Challenge
The Niagara Frontier Publications website reported that Mayor Byron Brown launched the inaugural Mayor’s Civic Innovation Challenge Powered by AT&T, seeking creative solutions that address social and civic issues impacting Buffalo residents. Competitors will mine data from the city’s new “Open Data Buffalo” portal to drive their innovative solutions. The Civic Innovation Challenge is a two-month competition for local computer scientists, coders, software developers, designers, hardware engineers and tech students to create innovative products or solutions that benefit the Buffalo and its residents. The administration, and its partners, aim to unite developers in the West NY region to build mobile apps or other solutions that address community needs while demonstrating how mobile technologies can lead to next generation job growth and development in the Buffalo.
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