Apps For Detroit Challenges Participants To Address City Problems With Technology
Posted in: Today's ChiliIf you’ve ever thought of a way technology could improve Detroit, now’s the time to turn your idea into something concrete.
Apps For Detroit, a competition for groups to design apps (whether for the web, phones or tablets) that address city challenges, kicks off with an informal information session at Signal-Return in Eastern Market this Thursday.
“One of the outcomes we hope to achieve with this event is … to corral disparate groups in a space and find developers who care about civic issues,” said Alicia Rouault, one of the three Detroit fellows for Code For America, a nonprofit that launches initiatives to improve city government functionality with technology. With partners Matt Hampel and Prashant Singh, she is working on two projects for the city. One program will track bus locations in real time, another will give community groups tools to collect and analyze their own data.
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