Foresight DRM: Disaster Mapping Hackathon Results

The Foresight DRM hackathon gathered 40 talented participants from around the world, who put their GIS, data science, software, and business development skills to work in creating innovative solutions to mitigate the impact of natural disasters in the Caribbean. Here’s a snapshot of the five remarkable projects: The judging criteria for the hackathon centered around […]

Is this the Caribbean’s First Hackathon focused on Disaster Mapping?

Back in 2004, I was one course shy of graduating from my computer science degree and had started working. I was essentially an intern in a government project team. So, I had some gaps during the day. Up to that time, I had built only a few solutions, and they were mostly simple web tools. […]

Which came first, the API or the app?

The Caribbean Open Data Code Sprint took place on January 26, 2015.  It’s a 24 hour coding competition.  In it, you are given access to specific Open Data datasets and asked to come up with a solution that uses one or more of those sets.  The hosts were the University of the West Indies and […]