Several large Dutch companies, including Bol.com, Albert Heijn and Philips, developers at a major hackathon with access to their api’s and technology. A maximum of five hundred developers can participate in the hackathon.
Among others, Albert Heijn, Philips, Rabobank and TomTom make apis available to developers during the hackathon, on 20 and 21 september. Also Schiphol and KLM subsidiary Transavia to do with it, as well as Bol.com and consultancy firm USG People. The Open State Foundation, the hackathon, organizes, maintains that it is the first time that so many large, international companies to provide access to their apis and data for a hackathon.
The purpose of the hackathon to get as many possible apis to combine and thus a so novel possible app to create, says Arjan El Fassed of Open State Foundation. Thereby no requirements to the form: participants may, at our own desire to have a website or an app for a particular platform to develop.
The hackathon has a maximum of five hundred participants; there are more applications, developers have chosen to experience. The participants may include the fleet management api of TomTom, the Wijnvinder api of Albert Heijn and the range api Bol.com use. “In the coming weeks, we make clear what apis of the other companies can be used,” says El Fassed.
“The nice thing about this hackathon is that you have different apis can be combined,” says George de Boer, TomTom. “Imagine this: you have to fly for work. At Schiphol airport you can buy a gift for your wife, but you don’t want to get carried away, so let your home delivery by Albert. You pay with the Rabobank-app, and thanks to the api of TomTom do you know a woman exactly how to let the gift is delivered.”
According to El Fassed hope the companies, that the cost for the hackathon to pay, with the hackathon to contact the developers and see what the combination of the api’s results. “The initiative for the hackathon really comes from the companies themselves,” says El Fassed. The Open State Foundation will organize more hackathons and is behind projects to make the government more transparent.
An earlier hackathon of the Open State Foundation
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