Transport for Greater Manchester is to make sets of data available to software developers and coders as part of competition aimed at finding useful mobile applications to improve the public transport experience.
The Routes to the Future Innovation Challenge, part of the FutureEverything Summit of Ideas & Digital Invention, is to be held at Four Piccadilly Place on 22nd March as an intensive 48-hour competition with cash and in-kind prizes available for the programmers who produce the best ideas. It will begin straight after the main FutureEverything conference ends at 6pm.
The Routes to the Future Innovation Challenge is made possible through support from TfGM, and FutureEverything and Manchester City Council’s participation in the Europewide CitySDK project.
The cash prize and development fund available is £11,000.
For more information visit Place North West
or visit – http://futureeverything.org/summit/conference/innovationchallenge/
FutureEverything Summit of Ideas and Digital Invention is taking place from Thursday 21 Sunday 24 March.
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