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Executive Summary
Microwork refers to small digital tasks that
people can perform anywhere to supplement
their income. 1Microworker refers to the
person who performs the microworker. Mobile
microworks are the tasks which microworkers
can perform using their mobile phones. And it
is evident that mobile phones are ubiquitous
and operating them for performing such small
digital task is not that difcult. Organizations
can leverage from mobile microwork in
terms of saving resources and time used for
completing their tasks. In case of microworkers,
they can earn some money by completing small
and easy tasks at any time of their leisure.
infoDev, World Bank, in partnership with
Nokias Ideasproject, conducted a global
mobile microwork idea challenge from
January to April 2012. During the challenge,around 1000 ideas were collected and few
winning ideas were awarded with cash prizes.
The next phase of the competition was to
bring those ideas to life by developing mobile
application prototypes.
To achieve this, the global m2work
hackathon was organized on September
1 See http://www.infodev.org/en/Article.797.html
15-16, 2012 in ve countries Armenia ECA
Region, Kenya, Nepal, Southern Africa and
Vietnam simultaneously. Four mLabs
(mLab East Asia, mLab Eastern Africa, mLab
Eastern Europe, The Caucasus, and Central
Asia, mLab Southern Africa) and one mHub
(mHub Nepal) hosted the hackathon. Each
organizer established partnerships with local
media, tech communities, tech companies,
academia and other networks to successfully
organize the hackathon. 301 people
participated in the hackathon that saw a total
of 61 mobile applications developed within
two days. ( http://m2workhackathon.org/
updates/m2work-hackathon-infographic)
YoungInnovations as a global facilitator of the
event led the preparation of the hackathon.
It worked closely with local organizers ineach of the countries to plan and implement
the hackathon. A collaborative approach was
adopted to develop individual plans for each
of the local organizers and by developing
necessary templates, plans and guidance
documents.
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What is m2Work?
"m2Work was an on-line challenge
conducted by infoDev, World Bank and
IdeasProject, with funding and support from
UKaid and the government of Finland. The
aim was to identify problems that could
be solved by tapping the micro-workers
who use mobile phones enabling the
underprivileged people of the world to
access the digital economy, and enabling
the rest of the world to benet from their
intelligence. Participants of the challenges
were asked to come up with ideas for mobile
phone applications that can work as the
link between problems that can be tackled
by microwork and micro-workers in the
developing world."2
Introduction
2 See https://ideasproject.com/web/m2work
After that, it was the responsibility of
country organizers to execute on the plan at
their regions. Each organizer held meetings
and pre-hackathon events with the potential
participants, to clarify the m2work concept,
encourage them to participate, submit
ideas, form teams and rene the ideas. Each
organizer had an autonomy to arrange the
process of meetings and preparation events
according to the local conditions.
Few weeks before the hackathon, the ofcial
website (www.m2workhackathon.org)was
launched. The website acted as a repository of
relevant information about the hackathon. The
website was equipped with the functionality to
allow preliminary registration of participants
for each of the countries. Later on, the website
was upgraded with more sophisticated
functionalities for local organizers to update
information (participants, ideas, news, etc.).
During the hackathon, the organizers
provided space, food and other necessary
resources to the participants. The
participants worked for two consecutive
days and developed mobile applicationprototypes. At the end of the second day,
all teams presented their ideas and gave
demos of their prototypes to the judges and
audiences present at the closing ceremonies.
Meanwhile, the judges gave scores to each
team. Later, the scores were collected and
the winners were announced and awarded.
However, in some regions the winners were
announced and awared the next day. A total
of 21 winners were announced and felicitated
with prizes.
Many brilliant ideas were brought to life
during the hackathon. But the journey of
bringing those ideas to life only began with
the hackathon. Most of the organizers have
decided to incubate some of the winning
teams to further rene their prototypes and
build business cases for them. A few months
after the event, the process has already
made signicant headway, and we sincerely
hope that in future, those applications will
mark their strong presence by facilitating
the process of mobile microwork at a global
scale.
Many lessons were learned during the
hackathon, both positive experiences and
challenges. The most important learning is
that the mLabs and mHubs can collaborate
with one another to successfully organize
a global event. Another signicant learning
is that the hackathon like this provides a
platform to the participants to work on
innovative ideas and convert them intosomething valuable.
Therefore, this report attempts to highlight
the importance of the preparation before
the hackathon, to underscore the potential
impact of global hackathons and nally to
present the lesson learned while preparing,
organizing and facilitating the global event.
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4 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackathon5 See http://www.m2workhackathon.org
What is Hackathon?
"A hackathon (also known as a hack day,
hackfest or codefest) is an event in which
computer programmersand others in the
eld ofsoftwaredevelopment, such as
graphic designers, interface designersand
project managers, collaborate intensively on
softwarerelated projects."4
What is m2WorkHackathon?
"m2Work Hackathon is a community event
aimed at mobilizing tech communities at
the local level in different countries to give
life to mobile microwork ideas. m2Work
Hackathon was the next phase to bring those
ideas to life. Several challenge winners are
already in talks with national governments,angel investors, and other developers on how
to distribute their apps. To help the larger
m2Work community turn their ideas into
mobile microwork businesses, infoDev and
its global partners organized the rst-ever
m2Work Hackathon across 5 countries in
different parts of the world."5
What is mobilemicrowork?
"Today, hundreds of thousands of people
around the world are earning money by
completing small digital tasks, like typing in
fragments of handwritten text or describing
the contents of an image in words. This is
called microwork. Micro-workers are paid by
companies and organizations that have found
ways to overcome problems by transforming
them into tiny tasks and distributing them
over digital networks. By simultaneously
tapping into the intelligence of thousands
of distributed workers, many problems are
solved in the blink of an eye.
Many of todays micro-workers are locatedin poor countries and benet signicantly
from the income provided by microwork.
Microtasks typically require very little skills or
training, as they rely on the fact that humans
3 See https://ideasproject.com/web/m2work
are intrinsically better in some tasks than
computers. Yet the least well-off people in
the world are largely barred from this work,
because it requires access to computers,
which most people lack.
But even the most underprivileged people
in the world increasingly have access to
mobile phones. There are over 5 billion
mobile phone subscriptions in the world,
and over half a billion in India alone. In 2011,
mobile phone penetration reached almost
80 % in the developing world. Microwork
offers jobs and second incomes in particular
for young people, for women and for thosewho might be excluded from conventional
work opportunities, for instance because of
disability, or because they wish to work from
home."3
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Principle Organizer
"infoDev is a global partnership program
within World Bank Group which works at the
intersection of innovation, technology, and
entrepreneurship to create opportunities for
inclusive growth, job creation and poverty
reduction. infoDev assists governments and
technologyfocused small and medium sized
enterprises (SMEs) to grow jobs, improve
capacity and skills, increase access to
nance and markets, ensure the appropriate
enabling policy and regulatory environment
for business to ourish, and test out
innovative solutions in developing country
markets. It does all these in partnership withother development programs, with World
Bank/IFC colleagues, and with stakeholders
from the public, private and civil society
sectors in the developing world." 6
6 See http://www.infodev.org/en/Page.About.html
Facilitator
YoungInnovations, based in Kathmandu,
Nepal, was contracted as ofcial facilitator
for the global hackathon. YoungInnovations
works in the areas of providing software
solutions to wide range of partners and
clients in different parts of the world. It
facilitates mobile community of practice in
Nepal, mHub Nepal (www.mobilenepal.net)
with support from infoDev.
Geographic Coverage andOrganizations behind the Hackathon
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Objectives
"The specic objectives of m2Work Hackathon were:
Shape promising idea submissions into mobile application
prototypes;
Bolster other prototype mobile microwork applications that qualify
for pre-incubation support at infoDevs Mobile Application Labs
(mLabs), and
Increase awareness for the jobcreating potential of mobile
microworkin developing countries"11
Regional Organizers
mLab East Asia, Vietnam
"The SHTP consortium hosts the mLab East
Asia. The consortium partners includeSaigon
HiTech Park, Vietnam National University,
FPT University, Elcom Ltd."7
mLab East Africa, Kenya
"The *iHub_ consortium hosts the mLab
East Africa. The consortium partners
include Nairobis *iHub_, eMobilis, the World
Wide Web Foundationand the University
of NairobisSchoolof Computing and
Informatics."8
mLab Eastern Europe, theCaucasus, and Central Asia,Armenia (ECA)
"Entreprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) hosts
the mLab for the region."9
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mLab Southern Africa, City ofTswane, Pretoria
"The Meraka consortium hosts the mLab
Southern Africa. The consortium partners
include the Meraka Instituteof Southern
Africas Council for Scientic and Industrial
Research (CSIR), the Innovation Hub, and
UnganaAfrika."10
mHub Nepal, Nepal (MobileSocial Networking Nepal)
MobileSocialNetworkingNepal(MobileNepal) is
a community of likeminded organizations and
individuals who are interested in and/ or willing to
work around mobile technologies. It wants to foster
a community of practice around Mobile Ecosystem
in Nepal to encourage and facilitate discussions
and discourses around issues, opportunities and
challenges around mobile technologies in Nepal.
It is an initiative of YoungInnovations Pvt. Ltd . and
infoDev, World Bank.
Supporters
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2. http://formin.nland./public
3. http://www.worldbank.org
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The m2work hackathon process had three
parts. First, a preparation required before the
hackathon, second a plan executed during
the hackathon and third, the collaboration
and networking required to achieve the afore
mentioned two parts of the hackathon.
Before the Hackathon
Comprehensive planning was required to
run a global event such as the m2work
hackathon. YoungInnovations started
planning the event weeks in advance and
continuously updated the plan till the day
before the event.
Finalization of the event dates
First, the plan was to nalize the date ofthe event. YoungInnovations exchanged
several emails and had Skype meetings with
infoDev to decide on the date of the event.
After the date was nalized, infoDev sent
an introductory email to 5 mLabs explaining
that the YoungInnovations would be the
global facilitator of the event. From that
point onwards, YoungInnovations took the
leadership to plan and to execute the idea of
the m2work hackathon.
The m2WorkHackathon Process
Communication with 5 regionsThe rst important step for
YoungInnovations was to take consent with
all the mLabs about the date. Hence, it sent
an introductory email to all the mLabs and
requested for the Skype meetings to discuss
about the plans for the event. Before the
Skype meeting, it sent out agendas to discuss
in the meeting. It had Skype meetings with all
the mLabs representatives. In the rst set of
meetings, all the representatives agreed on
the dates and other administrative processes.
Another important step was to make all the
mLabs understand the m2work concept. In
addition to that, it was absolutely necessary
to clearly communicate the objectives of the
hackathon and the expected outputs from
each mLab. YoungInnovations held skypemeetings and also shared documents with
each mLab to elaborate on the concepts and
objectives of the m2work hackathon.
YoungInnovations prepared a toolkit which
explained idea behind the hackathon,
processes to conduct the hackathon and
other necessary information regarding the
hackathon.
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Facebook
Twitter
Google +
Youtube
Preparation of m2workhackathon toolkit and othermaterialsThe toolkit was continuously updated with
feedback from infoDev team and the mLabs.
The toolkit had the detail information about the
m2work concept and the m2work hackathon.
It also included a section which explained the
steps to follow to organize the hackathon. It
briey outlined the communication strategy.
The strategy included social media plan,
outreach texts to different players of the
hackathon etc. It included logistics, checklists,
milestones, guidelines for venue required for
the hackathon. In short, the tool kit was the
guide to organize the hackathon.
In addition to the tool kit, YoungInnovations
prepared participant registration sheet,
budget plan template, events schedule
template, outreach texts, judges tool kit,
evaluation criteria, design for banners, posters,
swags (T-shirts and mugs). It extensively used
Google docs to share the documents which
were updated frequently and drop box to
share the preparation materials and designs.
Launch of m2work hackathonwebsiteA website is an identity of an event.
So to give an identity to the m2work
hackathon, YoungInnovations built http://
m2workhackathon.org/ .
The website was built in two phases. In
the rst phase, the concept of m2work
hackathon was disseminated to the global
audience through website. It was also used
to take registrations from the participants.
The website was continuously updated with
the relevant information so that anybody
(participants, judges etc) who wanted to know
in detail about the hackathon could visit the
website and receive information.
In the second phase, the website was
upgraded in such a way that, participants
would not only be passive receivers of
information but also be active providers of
the content. Participants could post blogs,
updates, upload photos and videos. After
launching the website, the training kit to
upload the content in the website was
prepared and circulated to the organizers.
Organizers were also requested to ask the
participants to actively update the website.
Representatives of all the mLabs were given
managerial access to the website so that they
could update the respective region specic
information such as ideas, participants info,
judges info, photos and videos of the events etc.
Social Media planSocial media such as Facebook, Twitterand Google plus are strong arsenal to reach
out to the people ef ciently and effectively.
Therefore, it was absolutely important to
update status in Facebook and tweet regularly
so that people could get timely reminders and
learn more about the hackathon. Every day,
YoungInnovations sent prepared messages
to all the organizers to update their Facebook
page and Twitter with those messages.
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It collected and reviewed the ideas posted by
the interested participants during preliminary
registrations and selected viable ideas for the
hackathon. It conducted a prehackathon
meeting in which it explained the concept of
m2Work and the hackathon to the potential
participants.
mLab ECA developed the action plan
and scope of the activities to organize
the hackathon and assigned the contact
person who will bear all the responsibilities.
It announced about the hackathon in
Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF)s
website, Facebook page and Linkedin.
It circulated the posters in various
organizations such as Microsoft Innovation
Center (MIC), ArmIndian Center of
Excellence (AICE), Yerevan State University
etc. It sent emails to its trainees and the MIC
and the AICE to participate the event. EIF
also communicated with IT community and
organizers involved in mobile development.
It distributed the press release which was
posted on major technology news portals. It
conducted several meetings with 13 teamsof participants to draft the algorithms of
the app, identify the basic design elements,
develop m2Work component and secure
necessary technical mentorship for
prototype crafting. It also invited individual
participants to join the already formed teams.
It also communicated via Skype with the
teams from Gyumri who also participated in
the hackathon, virtually.
mLab Southern Africa employed a short
term consultant to assist with sourcing,
branding, swag and catering for the event.
It secured and nalized agreement with
potential partners. It made changes in its
facility to host the hackathon. It created
awareness around the event through local
digital campaign and distribution of branding.
mHub Nepal (MobileNepal) divided
responsibilities among the team members.
It partnered with several organizations and
communities such as Microsoft Innovation
Center (MIC) Nepal, Google Developers
Group Nepal, Nepal Open Source Klub etc.
For outreach, it announced about the event
in its website, social media, local newspaper,
circulated the event materials to its partners
through mailing lists and distributed the
posters to colleges and organizations.
It contacted and conrmed 5 judges for
the event. Similarly, the logistics for the
hackathon were also arranged. It conductedmeetings with potential participants and
explained about the concept of m2Work
and the hackathon. Team formation was
done using the mailing list. The interested
participants who did not have team were
assisted to nd one.
Youtube channel to upload the videos was
also created. YoungInnovations sent the login
credentials to each organizers so that they
could use it to upload the video shot during
the hackathon. Therefore, social media are
indispensable for the success of the event
and YoungInnovations utilized it to the
maximum extent in order to make the most
out of it.
Registration of ParticipantsThe registration I want to participate was
recorded in the webform via the website.
Every day, YoungInnovations monitored the
web-form for new entries. It segregated
the entries with reference to the country
selected by registrants and updated the I
want to participate Google Spreadsheet
of each organizer. The organizers were
instructed to send email containing detail
registration form to the registrants.
YoungInnovations had created Google forms
for detail registration for all organizers.
Local PreparationsThe organizers had also started preparing for
the hackathon in their regions after coupleof meetings with YoungInnovations. The
toolkit helped them to plan the activities and
logistics. Below are the excerpts of what the
individual organizers did before hackathon:
mLab East Asia. The core group of 3 was
involved in logistics and other preparations
for the hackathon. It conducted numerous
meetings with potential participants and
individual teams to increase awareness
about m2Work and prepare them for the
hackathon.
It also provided with necessary materials to
the media to advertise about the hackathon.
It partnered with
Nokia Vietnam which provided 3 prizes for
3 Best Apps on Windows Phone and
FPT Software 1 prize for the Best App in
Education.
In addition Nokia Vietnam provided some
devices for testing. It also partnered with
local companies within the SHTP for logistics
and catering.
Organizing team of mLab East Africa
conducted several inhouse meetings for
preparations and planning for the
hackathon
selection of key personnel such as judges,
mentors, speakers etc
procurement of necessary commodities,
equipments, and services for the
hackathon
For communication with key individual and
stakeholders, it posted a blog to notify the
developer community about the details of the
hackathon. It used social media and mailing
list to reach out to the hackers whereas it
communicated with judges, speakers and
mentors via email and follow-up phone calls.
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Below are the excerpts of what the individual
organizers did during hackathon:
mLab East AsiaStart date and time:
September 14, 2012 4 PM (Vietnam Time)
End date and time:
September 16, 2012 7 PM (Vietnam Time)
After the opening ceremony of thehackathon, it provided coaching in groups
for ideas, particularly on incorporation of
microwork in the ideas. The participants then
started their coding and began developing
the prototypes. On September 16, 2012,
hacking concluded and the presentation
and demo session started at 3:30 PM. Each
team was provided 5 minutes to present
and show the demo of their prototypes and
extra 5 minutes for Q&A. The session ended
at 6:30 PM. The judges met in a closed door
session to decide the winners. The names of
the winning teams were announced in t he
morning of next day, September 17, 2012.
mLab East AfricaStart date and time:
September 15, 2012 9 AM (Kenya Time)
End date and time:
September 16, 2012 6 PM (Kenya Time)
After registration, the participants who had
their own ideas were allowed to pitch in their
ideas to others. Then the participants were
given time to choose the idea they wanted
to work on and form teams. After the teams
were formed, space was allocated to them
to start with their prototypes development.
The teams met with the mentors in a
specic session. Mentors provided teams
Following are the judging criteria:
1. potential development impact,(20%
weightage)
What is signicance of the problem/
development topic and apps ability/
potential to address the problem (on
a large scale)?
2. novelty and innovation,(20%weightage)
Is it fresh idea, or a new approach to
an old problem, or a better way to do
something efc iently/effectively/
elegantly?
3. feasibility,(20% weightage)
Can the app be turned into a
protable/sustainable startup in the
near future?
4. clarity of presentation (20% weightage)
How well the team covered and
presented all of product and its
condence in the idea?
5. product (20% weightage)
How well the product has been
developed?
Are there clarity, simplicity, friendliness,
and an intuitive feel of how the appworks?
How complete is the product?
How effectively the teams have used
API(s) & Technology to develop the
product?
The judging criteria and evaluation process was
only a suggestion. Regional Organizers suitably
modied the process according to their local
relevance.
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mHub NepalStart date and time:
September 15, 2012 8 AM (Nepal Time)
End date and time:
September 16, 2012 8 PM (Nepal Time)
All the teams were ready with their ideas
before the day of hackathon. Most of the
teams had come up with their own ideas.
Medic Info was one of the ideas posted in the
m2Work ideation phase.
On September 15, 2012, team leads of all theteams briefed their ideas. The teams then started
coding, designing and compiling all individual tasks
to develop prototypes. On September 16, 2012,
teams were ready by 2 PM with their apps. Judges
visited all teams before starting the presentation.
Later, all teams gave presentation and demo of
their apps. However, judges made on-the-spot
decision to see the detail demo of ve best apps
selected after the presentation. Later, the winners
were decided, announced and awarded.
the best practices in product development
establishment of proper business models.
The hacking continued till 2 PM of September
16, 2012.
The judges visited each teams working
station where the teams gave demo of their
products. Later, the teams presented their
ideas and products before the judges. The
judges, then, discussed, tallied their scores
and announced the winners.
mLab ECAStart date and time:September 15, 2012 10 AM (Armenia Time)
End date and time:
September 16, 2012 7 PM (Armenia Time)
14 teams were already formed before the
event whereas 2 teams were formed during
the hackathon. The presentation and demo
session started at 2 PM on September 16,
2012. Each team was given 5 minutes to
present and demonstrate their product and
2 minutes for Q&A. The judges scored them,
decided the winners and announced them.
mLab Southern AfricaStart date and time:
September 15, 2012 9 AM (Southern Africa Time)
End date and time:
September 16, 2012 5:30 PM (Southern Africa Time)
It provided the teams with the rst batch of
event goodies and familiarized them with the
lab. It also helped them to choose the space tostart their work. A pre-hackathon workshop
was also hosted by Qualcomm and the mLab
to showcase some important technologies
that could benet the ideas for m2Work apps.
mLab Southern Africa also showed TED video
to inspire the participants. The teams continued
to work till 2:30 PM on September 16, 2012.
The presentation and demo session started at
3 PM and ended at 5:30 PM. The winners were
decided but announced the next day.
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Media Coverage
mLab East AsiaS.No. link Remarks
1 http://diendancongnghe.vn/tintuccongnghe90/dumlabdongvacuocthihackathon19090/#post29457
2 http://www.diendantinhoc.vn/showthread.php?150594-Du-an-mLab-Dong-A-va-cuoc-thi-Lap-trinh-ung-dung-m2Work-Hackathon&p=247617#post247617
3http://www.diendantinhoc.vn/showthread.php?150594-Du-an-mLab-Dong-A-va-cuoc-thi-Lap-trinh-ung-dung-m2Work-Hackathon&p=247617#post247617
4 http://www.benhvientinhoc.com/threads/d%E1%BB%B1-%C3%A1n-mlab%C4%90%C3%B4ng%C3%81v%C3%A0cu%E1%BB%99cthil%E1%BA%ADp-tr%C3%ACnh-%E1%BB%A9ng-d%E1%BB%A5ng-m2work-hackathon.107320/
5 http://www.picvietnam.com/forum/showthread.php?p=77547#post77547
6 http://vi.edaboard.com/topic9581509.0.html
7 http://forum.uit.edu.vn/threads/10031-Du-an-mLab-Dong-A-va-cuocthiLaptrinhungdungm2WorkHackathon?p=89058#post89058
8 http://www.zam.vn/showthread.php?7246-Du-an-mLab-Dong-A-va-cuocthiLaptrinhungdungm2WorkHackathon&p=11314#post11314
9 http://sinhvienvanlang.com/@rum/showthread.php?p=484387#post484387
10 http://vietgamedev.net/blog/403/cu%E1%BB%99c-thi-m2work-hackathon-%C4%91%C6%B0a-%C3%BD-t%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Fng-v%C3%A0ocu%E1%BB%99cs%E1%BB%91ng/
11 http://gameuit.com/gameuit/showthread.php?591-HOT-cu%E1%BB%99c-thim2WorkHackathongi%E1%BA%A3ith%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Fngh%E1%BA%A5pd%E1%BA%ABn&p=4426#post4426
12 http://handheld.vn/threads/266080-m2Work-Hackathon-Dua-y-tuong-vaocuocsong?p=1999995#post1999995
13 http://www.gdn.vn/forum/22-your-announcements/251-d-an-mlab-dong-a-va-cu-c-thi-m2work-hackathon.html#251
14 http://thegioitinhoc.vn/home/tintuccntt/137008duanmlabdongava-cuoc-thi-m2work-hackathon-2012-a.html#post307145
15 http://kenhsinhvien.net/@forum/topic/118959cuocthilaptrinhungdung-di-dong-m2work-hackathon-va-du-an-mlab/
16 http://bstyle.vn/tintuc/5555/M2WorkHackathonduaytuongvaocuocsong.htm
VietnamEconomic News
17 http://www.hca.org.vn/tin_tuc/thoi_su/nam2012/thang8/m2work Hochiminhcity ComputerAssociation (HCA)
mLab Southern Africa
m2Work has a huge potential especially for
people who are not in the formal job market.
The next m2Work should encourage hackers
to hit the streets and observe potential
micro-workers - I believe this will enhance
their imaginations (perhaps on the rst few
hours of the rst day of the hackathon - for
idea generation?)
m2work has a place in technology,
everything does :). We are shapers of the
future and technology is the medium we use
to solve problems such as unemployment.
I really believe that its a concept that can
solve the unemployment problem as we will
be creating jobs. However even though the
micro-workers will be earning money, unless
its a substantial amount, they will continue
classifying themselves as unemployed.
This can be s olved by creating innovative
insensitive for them so that they truly believe
that they are employed.
m2work is a great program. As a young
developer, it was a great challenge to be part
of as not only was we required to come up
with innovative solutions, we were creating
micro-work opportunities.
The hackathon taught me how to include a
business element in innovative solutions that
will potentially be the foundation for nancial
freedom, not only for me but for the people
that will be involved as a result
The m2work hackathon was different from
most of the Lumia hacks I attended. It was
almost like the Random Hacks of Kindness
and what I like about both is that you are not
all alone. You work as a team which reduces
the pressure and allows everyone to work
on their strengths. I also liked the fact that
we worked on real situations that would
eventually better peoples lives .
mHub Nepal
Different, fun and awesome experience,
look forward to more hackathons like this.- Sonika Manandhar
The hackathon never ends, this is just the
beginning Roshan Karki
Idea sharing, knowledge sharing continuously
for 2 days helps and m2work hackathon
provided this opportunity - Hem Shrestha
We are young students. Though it was
a competition, prototype we developed
was only possible because of cooperation
received. We learned at least something
from every fellow participant. Seniors not
only guided but also scolded like we were
their younger brothers. We learned a lot. Wecame as if we knew everything when we
are leaving now even though we learned so
much we feel we have a lot to learn. Thanks
m2work hackathon for this opportunity.
Mobile Grocery team
This is my rst hackathon so I was excited
from the very beginning. Working with my
teammates I feel and I get energy that we
should take NewsIt to the highest level. I feel
hackathons must be organized frequently
and boost of hackathon culture. For that all
of us have to work together. Chandra Man
Shrestha
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mLab East AfricaS.no. Link Remarks
1 http://www.humanipo.com/blog/1563/Kenyan-version-of-m2Work-hackathon-2012-winners-announced
2 http://kenyabuzz.com/whatson/this-month/details/5890-m2work-hackathon
3 http://www.virtualkenya .org/commu nity/event s/viewevent /98-M2WORK+HACKATHON
4 http://www.biztechafrica.com/article/translation-app-wins-kenya-hackathon/4165/?country=kenya
5 http://techartpoetry.com/2012/08/28/m2work-hackathon-bring-mobile-microwork-ideasintolife/
6 http://pivoteast.com/blog/2012/08/m2work-hackathon/
7 http://pivoteast.com/blog/2012/09/m2work-hackathon-prize-money-breakdown/
8 http://pivoteast.com/blog/2012/09/m2work-hackathon-jugdes-and-mentors/
9 http://pivoteast.com/blog/2012/09/m2work-hackathon-ideas/
10 http://pivoteast.com/blog/2012/09/m2work-hackathon-winners-announced/
mLab ECAS.no. Link Remarks
1 http://armenpress.am/arm/news/693283/hay-eritasardnery-masnakcum-en-gaxaparneri-tsragravorman.html
2 http://lratvakan.am /?p=2828
3 http://www.itel.am/am /news/5205/
4 http://168.am/2012/09/15/127027.ht ml
5 http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v= mvmTVO5aURo ArmNewsbroadcasted event(starting from13:30min)
mLab Southern AfricaS.no. Link Remarks
1 http://www.gadget.co .za/pebble. asp?relid=522 7
2 http://web.up.ac.za /sitele s/le/1/M2w ork%20Hackathon.pdf
3 http://companies.myb roadband. co.za/bl og/2012/10/04/stu dentsfro mblackberry-apps-lab-excel-in-sa-hackathon/
4 http://ntww1.csir.co .za/plsql /ptl0002/PTL0002_P GE157_MEDIA_R EL?MEDIA_RELEASE_NO=7525493
5 http://nerdberry.net/2012/1 0/09/blackberry- apps-lab -studen ts-win-s outh-africa-m2work-hackathon/
6 http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=18198&ArticleID=13691
mHub NepalS.no. Link Remarks
1 http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=M2work+hackathon++to+be+organised+soon&NewsID=346661
Published in TheHimalayan Times(THT)
2 http://www.aakarpost.com/2012/09/hury-up-hackers-m2work-hackathon-in.html
Published in Mr.Aakar Anil's Blog
3 http://mobilenepal.net/featured-story/m2work-hackathon-get-ready-september1516
Published inMobileNepal'swebsite
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Online Presence
Twitter Hash Tag Statistics#m2work
#m2work
Total numberof tweets
Total number ofunique tweeters
Number Tweetson September 14
Number Tweetson September 15
Number Tweetson September 16
Number Tweetson September 17
209From August 20 till
September 19
241 Day BeforeHackathon
861 Day After the
Hackathon
893From August 20 till
September 19
224HackathonDay 2
225Hackathon
Day 1
Top 10 Tweeters
65
45
42
35
29
29
28
27
22
20
mlabeastafrica
praweshsth
MobileNepal
INNOv8torzIT
m2workhack
mlabsa
adishaswot
infoDev
bimalmaharjan
allay_m2Work Hackathon Website Statisticshttps://www.m2workhackathon.org
m2Work Facebook Statisticshttps://www.facebook.com/pages/m2work-Hackathon/143780505760121
Total Likes
People TalkingAbout It
Friends of Fans
109From August 20 till
September 19
191From August 20 till
September 19
65,478From August 20 tillSeptember 19
Total Reach
34,816From August 20 till
September 19
UniqueVisitors
Pageviews
3,028From August 18 till
September 17
19,396From August 18 till
September 17
Visits
5,569From August 18 till
September 17Visitors by Regions
1,896
1,021
975
493
438
173
37
36
20
268
Nepal
Kenya
Vietnam
S. Africa
Armenia
United States
India
UK
Canada
Others
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mLab East Asia
After the m2work Hackathon, mLab East
Asia has planned to implement the following
activities:
Encourage all teams to polish their apps
with coaching, planning support, open
facility with free high-speed internet
access, registering memberships, and
extra tech training. This activity targets
46 apps ready for the Mobile Innovation
Challenge in Dec 2012.
Fix any errors in the process and
document for the next hackathon
Partner with local device manufacturers
for the next hackathon.
mLab East AfricaTeams have expressed interest to develop
their prototypes further. The reward scheme
for the hackathon was set up such that it
would encourage the teams to push forward
even after the hackathon period was over.
Funding was split into three tiers as follows:
What after Hackathon?
1. Tier 1: Prize Money
1st Prize KES 100,000
2nd Prize KES 70,000
3rd Prize KES 40,000
4th Prize KES 30,000
The four winning groups in the hackathon
were awarded the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
prizes money respectively as stated above.
2. Tier 2: Traction Funding worth USD
2,000
Traction fund, worth USD 2,000 each,
will be awarded to two of the mostoutstanding teams that show interest
and potential to develop their prototypes
to nished products. The funds will be
disbursed based on the milestones the
teams make on product development.
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3. Tier 3: Traction Funding worth USD
5,000
Stage one, Stage two traction will be
awarded by m:lab East Africa as seed
investment to the team with the most
traction on their nished product and
intend to grow it into an enterprise. Due
to the nature of the funding as illustrated
above, teams have made more effort to
make their products better in a bid to
secure funding.
mLab ECASupport the teams to nish development
of their prototypes and upload to stores.
Assist in promotion of apps in mLab, mHub
countries.
mLab Southern AfricamLab Southern Africa is currently working
with four of the teams to help nalize their
applications. It would be nice to see a list of
nal products and pilots of apps developed
at the hackathons. Perhaps they could
enter into a nal competition or award
from infoDev, just to tie the global message
together and highlight the success stories.
mHub Nepal10 prototypes were produced in the
hackathon. Out of those, 3 were judged
winners. Winning ideas have the potential
to be viable business in Nepal if groomed,
mentored and guided properly.
mHub will look for opportunities both locally
and at an international level to raise support
for winning ideas so that they can be taken
forward.
Lesson Learned
In the preparation journey of the hackathon,
we have learned so many worthy lessons
which need to be shared. There were many
which we did outstandingly well. There were
some challenges we faced but overcame
with hard work. There were denitely many
missed opportunities. Had we tapped on
those missed opportunities, the hackathon
would have been more successful.
Therefore, this section enumerates the
lesson learned in the m2work hackathon
both from global perspective through
the role of the facilitator and from local
perspective through the role of the
organizers.
Lesson learned atglobal level
Positive lessons
1. mLabs can work together for a
common goal
The hackathon has proved a point that
the different mLabs can denitely work
cohesively for a common goal and
successfully execute a collaborative
event. Therefore, network of mLabs and
mHubs can be suitably utilized to pull off
a global event efciently.
2. Increased awareness and acceptance
of the m2work concept
Before the hackathon, clarity of the
m2work concept was blur not only for
general participants but also for the
organizers. m2work concept was initially
resisted to the extent of being ridiculed.
But, as we moved along the path of
preparation, gradually the concept
settled in the minds of the people and
the visibility of the m2work concepts as
plausible business model became clearer.
Clearly, after the hackathon, from the
response we received from participantsand organizers, and number of apps
developed during hackathon, we can
conclude that, people have shown
interest and have accepted the m2work
concept.
3. Proactive sharing of information and
resources are required for the success
We prepared toolkit, planning materials,
banners, posters etc and shared those
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4. Global Competition and global
participation
There was no competition among the
ideas and applications on the global
level. It was like 5 disjoint local events
happening simultaneously around the
world under one theme. Communication,
collaboration and competition among the
regions were missed in the hackathon.
Also, in each region, there were
participants from only the host
country. For example, although,
Nepal represented South Asia for the
hackathon, there were no participants
from other South Asian Countries. If
we had nancial resources, adequate
preparation time, perhaps we could have
made possible for people from multiple
countries to participate in the hackathon.
That participation could be virtual or
physical. Probably then the hackathon
would have had the global feel.
Lesson learned at local
levelmLab East Asia
Challenges
Network technical issues: During the
hackathon, there were problems with
rogue DHCP servers while a part-time
technician was not able to trouble shoot
them. If there is no qualied specialist,
that would be problematic.
Sleeping area: mLab East Asia needed
more space for sleeping that is separated
by gender.
Devices for testing: How mLab East Asia
lend the scarce number of devices to
participants at the end of the hackathon.
Food for breakfast: Hot broth and ltered
milkcoffee for the breakfast, avoid
sandwiches.
Opportunities/missed opportunities
Media outreach sooner with three different
phases: (1) Building social attention on the
topic of the hackathon, ( 2) promotion for
registration, (3) result analysis and report.
Failure to attract professional coders in
mobile industry: A key interest to this
group was not clearly identied.
Outreach participants through FPT
University and National University.
Recommendation for next time:
Different posters and outreach texts to
different target groups: Professional
developers or students.
Increase the creativity and participation
from local organizers by using guidelinesrather than a centralized model.
mLab East AfricaA major opportunity witnessed from
the event was the level of potential and
productivity attained from partnerships in
various levels. There was greater success
among teams that worked collaboratively to
develop their product, which underlines the
need for partnerships and teamwork.
One of the greatest challenges mLab
East Africa faced before and during the
hackathon was the limited supply of funds
for the event. There was a delay in the
process of expedition of the funds for the
event, and therefore some of the resources
acquired were in limited supply. Based on this
observation, a favorable recommendation
would be that in the future, arrangement
for the transfer of funds should be made in
advance before the start of the event.
mLab ECA
Challenges
Potential beneciaries and app users should
be involved as well.
Opportunities/missed opportunities
The event showcased that we could have had
participants from neighboring countries, if
mLab ECA could cover their travel expenses.
Recommendation for next time
Virtual Expo of apps could be organized to
help teams and mLabs promote and market
products internationally.
mLab Southern Africa
Challenges
Media was probably the biggest challenge
from a Southern African perspective.
Despite some initial interest there was
no one willing to attend the event over a
weekend and interest moved towards post
event coverage.
Opportunities
A global competition should ideally have a
global prize just to tie the message together.
mLab Southern Africa had some success
with hosting a virtual hackathon as part
of the local m2work challenge with ten
participants, including a developer hacking
from Nigeria participating. There might be
opportunities to do this on a global level to
create the largest hackathon or even at much
lower cost host regular virtual competitions
to promote this cause.
Overall, mLab Southern Africa would probably
do a couple of things differently within the
local context but the overall organization of the
global event was great and there are not any
recommendations on that level, apart from the
potential to include a virtual element next time.
mHub Nepal
Opportunities
It was rst hackathon for most of the
participants and in addition to that for
most of them it was their rst global eventparticipation.
The hackathon gave a platform to all to
show their skills, talent and more than
that they got opportunities to exchange
perspectives, skills and knowledge with
each another.
It also helped to bond with new faces and
created an environment of teamwork. The
synergy between them was strong to hold
them together even after the hackathon.
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It helped everyone involved in it to explore
their competencies and weaknesses.
mHub Nepal got chance to work with
organizations such as MIC Nepal and learn
from their expertise.
Challenges/ Missed Opportunities
The time to prepare for the hackathon
was short.
The number of teams and participants were
unpredictable as only few had responded
back and gave the information about their
teams and ideas prior to the due date. mHub Nepal had planned to help the
participants to form teams and help
them to choose ideas from m2Work
idea competition in meetings before
hackathon. The plan did not go very
well as many were not present for the
meetings and most of them had little or
no idea of m2Work and hackathons.
mHub Nepal provided server congured
with Apache and PHP but participants had
to use their own server when they needed
server with different conguration.
mHub Nepal provided SMS gateway but
experts in it were not available the whole
time. Because of which one of the teams
had an issue with it.
While the teams were showing demo of
their applications, the Internet devices
failed. Many teams could not give proper
demo of their applications.
Some of the participants expressed that
the feel of global event was missing.
It would have been better if mHub Nepalhad boarded subject matter experts to
help teams to make their ideas better.
The lack of resources in MobileNepal
and lack of culture of incubation in Nepal
deprived the teams to add business value
to their creation.
Lesson Learned/ Recommendations
Although, mHub Nepal had less than a
month to organize this hackathon, the
organizing team made it a successful
one. Nevertheless, they are now aware
that they can organize hackathon within
limited time. Also, it helped them to know
the strengths and weaknesses of their
teams and of the individuals.
More focused meetings along with general
ones with potential participants will be
helpful to give the clear message to them
about the event and learn their needs.
A small change in the schedule when
needed is required to make the event
successful. The demo of participants didnot go well. Then mHub Nepal arranged
for 5 teams to give their demo to the
judges in closed room session.
mHub Nepal could have conducted small
sessions to inform the participants about
the status in other countries or make
interaction among the global participants.
Events such as this give a boost to
developers and students to be creative
and innovative.
In future events, mHub Nepal needs
to change its communication strategy
for promoting such events in media.
It needs to reach out to more media
houses rather than few selected ones,
conduct formal meetings with them. It
needs to bring in technical bloggers such
as Mr. Aakar whose blogs are popular
amongst the technical people in the
country. However, this event has given
them an exposure to media persons
which will be helpful in their future
events. Besides its own network and local
partners, who helped to reach out
to developers and students for the
hackathon by promoting it in their
networks, it also posted about the
hackathon in other groups. Such as Free
and Open Source Software (FOSS) and
Monsoon Collective. In future too, it will
include such active groups to promote the
events.
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mLab East Asia
First prize: THASA Team with app
for Anti counterfeiting
Team Members:
1. TrnLuThoNguyn
2. PhmTnPhc
3. TinBchng
4. LTrungHiu
5. TrniPhc
Second prize: Seniors Team with
app named Gesture Language &
YouTeam Members:
1. ngNhtDuy
2. VHoiLn
3. GingPhtQu
4. TrnThMDung
Annex
Third prize: The Earth Team with
app named Smart Blackboard
Team Members:
1. BiKhcThch
2. TrnXunChin
3. NguynHuMinh
4. NguynThanhBnh
First Nokia Lumia 800 prize: Ethics
Edu Team
Team Members:
1. PhmPhngNguyn2. ChungVnhKhang
3. NguynDuyPhng
4. TrnngKhoa
Second Nokia Lumia 800 prize: OU
Team with app named Product
Preview on-line
Team Members:
1. HunhPhci
2. TrnMinhSn
Winning Ideas and Products
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reminders to take medicine and a range
of other services while earning small
remunerations for helping build a centralized
patient registry.
Both these teams received a prize sponsored
by Vodacom as well as an offer from mL ab
to assist them in commercializing their
application. In order to receive the funding
the teams must have the interest and ability
to nalize the application and funds will be
paid out on project milestones.
Team Members:
1. LebogangMadise
2. VutlhariLegabe
3. SammyPhatlane
`
Best m2Work Service
Ishmael Makitla: Utilizing services like USSD,
IM, SMS, Web and Apps the solution allows
users to submit any range of micro jobs
and have anyone perform it. The rst to
successfully perform the micro job receives a
pre published and agreed upon remuneration.
The service also includes a rating model to
ensure that bad payers or micro workers areagged and ltered out of the system.
The winner received a prize sponsored by
Microsoft.
Most Impact & Targeted m2Work
App
Teamov8: Targeting car guards this team set
out to increase the productivity and earning
potential of a specic community who has a
lot of time to do micro work but also needs
additional income. The application allows
the guards to do random checks on vehicle
information by entering registration numbers.
The app will interface with the licensing
department and provide basic information
like make, color, model etc and ask for
conrmation. Should the registration number
not match the vehicle they are requested to
provide the correct information while the
system ags the department to reference
potential crimes and warrants related to
the vehicle that was Geo-tagged when the
registration was searched. Micro workers earn
micro remuneration for every 10 checked.
This team received a prize sponsored by
Nokia.
Team Members:
1. MixoNgoveni
2. KatlegoMolepo
3. JoelMukanya
4. MondeMbatha
Best Virtual Hacker
Tanaka Mutakwa participated from CapeTown and created mTesting, a m2work
mobile living lab solution that allows the
creators of digital products such as software
and apps to have accurate testing done in
the real world by registered micro workers
and collect valuable feedback to improve the
product before launching it in a market.
The winner received a prize sponsored by
Qualcomm.
Best Individual Hacker
Blessing Mahlalela, created a web and
SMS based service for matching up jobs
(both formal and informal) with potential
candidates. Unlike a traditional job and
cv registry this service employees micro
workers to read the SMS job posting or
skill submission and interpret it while also
allowing them to source and match the best
candidate for the job.
The winner received a prize sponsored by
Qualcomm.
mHub Nepal
Winner: Medic Info
Medic Info is a mobile application which
is used by micro-workers to digitize the
medical history of a patient that is provided
by the medical institutes in scanned form.
Team members:
1. VivekBhusal
2. AdityaBikramKarki
3. SwetaShrestha
4. SumanHumagain
1st Runner up: NewsIT
This app helps the news publishing sites and
medias by fast accessing of news through
various and large population. Every personnel
with mobile and this app can be a self-
claimed journalist and send their reports/
news/research to respective company
through this app and can earn money
according to the weight of the content and
rankings in the company.
Team Members:
1. ManishJungThapa
2. AnishShrestha
3. ChandramanShrestha
4. YugalKoirala
2nd Runner up: Article Digitization
Digitizing newspapers or valuable documents
from Libraries that are important. Server
will analyze image, process it and split it into
small chunks. These chunks will be sent to
micro-workers who will be converting image
into textual form from mobile applications
and send it to server. The server will process
the submitted result, validate it, pay the
worker and nally generate completeinformation.
Team Members:
1. RajanMaharjan
2. AmanMaharjan
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Lucky Reward
Team Members:
1. NguynPhcThnh
2. THunhTn
3. LngNhtHuy
4. onTrnCngDanh
To giao thng (Street Knight)
Team Members:
1. LVitHng
2. ngThNgcTrn
My Ads
Team Members:
1. ngHuQun
2. NguynPhong
3. NguynHongV
Location Network
Team Members:
1. PhmMinhThng
2. NguynHuDng
3. McTKhoa
I2tree - Smart Active Info Network
Team Members:
1. NguynTnTriu
Live Trafc update
Team Members:
1. TrnDuyQuang
2. HongAnhT
Where
Team Members:
1. TrnMinhThng
xDict
Team Members:
1. NguynQuangVinh
2. NguynNgcTun
3. inhCmPhong
4. NguynTiHi
Routing Smarter
Team Members:
1. NguynHunhDuyHng
2. TrngThiChu
3. HngNgcMinhTrm
Farm Helper
Team Members:
1. PhmSnTrng
2. HQuangc
mLab East Africa
ika
This solution aims at aiding motorists drive
safely by providing driving instructions and
warnings on dangerous areas and areas
where they should be watchful, hence
averting road carnage. Micro-workers will
submit data that indicate such areas that are
considered dangerous or worth watching
out for. This data will also be useful in
determining the best routes, or strategic
points such as lling stations, shopping
centres, vehicle repair workshops, etc.
Team Members:
1. AccadiusBenSabwa
2. LiyosiCollins
3. ErickNdungu
4. EdwinWaswa
5. EdithNjeru
6. AnthonyKabetu
7. AniceaKabego
8. StephenKimiri
9. MusaOgonda
10. JoanneMahinda
iContact
Micro-workers collect contact information
and addresses of different businesses
around them and submit the information
to a database. This information can then
be fetched by users in need, using a mobile
application or from a mobile website from
their phones.
Team Members:
1. JohnSlater2. GideonMburu
3. ChrisneAoko
4. TheophilusMachogu
5. TimothyMwirabua
6. JohnsonNdunguMacharia
7. EstherWanjiru
8. MarylineCheruch
9. HappinessNduka
10. SylvesterMwambeke
11. FelixWahome
Mtati
Companies need research data and
reviews for their products, or adverts. What
customers want or what they think about
certain product.
Team Members:
1. Weda Moses
2. Ruth Kinuthia
3. Francis Kinuthia
4. Jeremy Njihia
5. Ngugi Karani
6. Daniel Kihia
7. Josephine Ayienda
8. Elijah Mwathi
9. Margaret Adhiambo
10. Gabriel Lando
Trash Up
Trashup is a platform that seeks to create
employment while also having a positive
impact on the environment. It helps improve
and maintain sanitation through garbage
collection and recycling it in ways that
generate revenue. Jobless individuals sign
up and receive notications of places that
need cleaning.
Team Members:
1. PaulMue
2. JuliusMunene
3. AntonyOroko
4. AllanMukhwana
5. DennisRiungu
6. ElkanahKibet
7. ChrisKivaze
Other Ideas/ Prototypes
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X-Tech, CityBugs
CityBugs - Application dedicated to nding
and solving city problems... Everyone can
write bug and pin on map where is the issue,
User can attach Photo, Video and detailed
description of it.
Team Members:
1. Arman Atoyan
2. Aram Mkrtchyan
3. Levon Kirakosyan
4. Hovhannes Aghajanyan
5. Lilit Harutiunyan
Photo Translator
Micro picture translator - that will help
foreign people to translate pictures content
as well as get information about them.
Team Members:
1. LusineKhachatryan
2. AnahitManukyan
3. HripsimeMarrosyan
4. NarekPahlevanyan
Cubix
Sales tracker, for tracking discounts in thecity shops
Team Members:
1. GagikMarrosyan
2. ArmenNazaretyan
3. MelikPilosyan
4. MariamPoghosyan
Task Solver: RAU Team
App user can send to microworker the math
problem he/she wants to be solved and get
solutions
Team Members:
1. RolandYeghiazaryan
2. Vahan
3. Gosha
4. A ram
MyNews
Allows citizen journalists report using the app
Team Members:
1. SedaMuradyan
2. SaraKhojoyan
3. NvardHovhannisyan
Showplaces
Tour guide based on tours developed by
microworkers, which includes specic places
not often mentioned in guides for tourists
Team Members:
1. HarutArakelyan
mLab Southern Africa
The Conduits
CAMvoiz: digitizing invoices for accounting
purposes through mobile microworkers with
phone camera.
Team Members:
1. Obakeng Matlhoko
2. Nathi Tshabalala
3. Lawrence Matjeni
4. Molefe Kobue
Sola Salami
Mobile adaptive diary to capture relevant and
fun date and location information.
Team Members:
1. SolaSalami
Lamarasi
It will help the City of Tshwane Residence to
have access to the full schedule of buses.
Team Members:
1. LauraDlamini
2. MatshaliSekoli3. GlenRanku
4. SiphoNcedoKoza
mHub Nepal
Quick Heal
With this app, farmer can upload the pictures
of infected plants/ animal and the micro
workers gives suggestions and remedies
after analyzing the pictures of the infected
plants/ animals.
Team Members:
1. SamrakchanGhimire
2. RoshanKarki
3. PrayagRajUpadhyay
4. RegendramanSinghBasnyet
Source Code:http://m2workhackathon.
org/sites/default/les/downloads/
quickhealsource.zip
Mobile Grocery
The idea will be for knowing the wholesale
price of almost all the products required
for kitchen i.e. that includes all the
grocery products, beverage products,
fruits,vegetables,snacks etc. The users can
be any persons who need to buy fresh n good
quality kitchen grocery in low market price.The micro-workers will be the wholesale
shopkeepers.
Team Members:
1. RajanGautam
2. ManishKunwar
3. SurajK.C.
4. SubhashKarki
5. TikarajNeupane
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Medical Helpline
It facilitates the patients/user who wants
to share the health problems that they are
facing and seeks help for that problem.
Team Members:
1. SonikaManandhar
2. PasangTamang
3. PawanNepal
4. SanjayMaharjan
Sodh Khoj
The users will ask questions using this app
and the micro-workers will answer the
questions according to their expertise and
earn from it.
Team Members:
1. SureshGhimire
2. BinayakDhakal
3. PavitraGautam
4. SunojDasShrestha
Wish List
When a user wants to get some product or
service but have no idea where to consult
Mobile Wish List aims to be the solution.
Team Members:
1. BhupalSapkota
2. NirojSapkota
3. HemShrestha
4. SaswotSinghAdhikari
Source Code:http://code.google.com/p/
wlist
Digital Lalpurja
This app helps to digitize the land owning
documents (Lalpurja). The documents are
scanned and divided into small chunks and
delivered to the micro-workers who will
record the text as per the picture.
Team Members:
1. DiwakerGhimire
2. MunaMaharjan
3. PunyaRuchal
4. RohitShrestha
5. NirajanPanthee
Source Code:https://bitbucket.org/
idwaker/lalpurja
Mobile Survey
Any organization that want to get feedback
from their audience, sends a simple form
to this system and it will make that form
available to the mobile application for the
micro-workers to conduct the survey.
Team Members:
1. NabarajPoudel
2. DipendraPokharel3. AmirjanNepal
Source Code: https://bitbucket.org/
dipendrapkrl/mobilesurveyserverside (Server
side) & https://bitbucket.org/dipendrapkrl/
mobilesurvey(Client side)
1. Toolkit
2. Outreach Text
3. Budget Plan for Orgnizers
4. Checklists
5. Milestone
6. Communication/ Outreach Strategy
7. Poster and Flyer
Documents and templates used during thehackathon by local organizers.
8. Banner Design
9. Coffee Mug Design
10. Tee-Shirt Design (Black)
11. Tee-Shirt Design (White)
12. Judges Toolkit
13. Plan for updating website and social
media
Photo Credits:
mlab East Asia
mlab East Africa
mlab Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Armenia (ECA)
mlab South Africa
MobileNepal
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