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Winners of open data hackathon to be announced tomorrow

The City of Cape Town is hosting a hackathon at the Khayelitsha Bandwidth Barn to challenge teams to solve real problems faced by Cape Town's tourism industry. Winners will be announced tomorrow, 29 October 2017.
Winners of open data hackathon to be announced tomorrow

The city’s Open Data Portal, launched in 2015, makes data freely available online to members of the public, empowering them to come up with innovative entrepreneurial ideas and clever solutions to issues facing residents.

A hackathon brings together a diverse group of people with a wide range of IT-related skill sets to compete in solving social and economic problems, making it a platform to find new uses for the city’s open data.

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