{"id":7223,"date":"2014-12-10T00:25:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=7223"},"modified":"2014-12-10T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T16:30:09","slug":"tollpass-app-wins-grand-prize-at-the-2014-philippines-mobile-app-developers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2014\/12\/10\/tollpass-app-wins-grand-prize-at-the-2014-philippines-mobile-app-developers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;TollPass&#8217; app wins grand prize at the 2014 Philippines Mobile App Developers\u2019 Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of an app called \u201cTollPass\u201d won the US$6,000 grand prize at 2014 Philippines Mobile App Developers\u2019 Day on Sunday night. The winning app, TollPass, offers a solution for smarter road tolls in order to reduce traffic jams and delays.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers Jake Jennings, Executive Director of International External and Regulatory Affairs of AT&amp;T, A SPACE Manila, Golden Gate Ventures and Philippine Software Industry Association presented the award on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The event took place on Dec. 6-7 and drew more than 60 contestants from the Philippines to compete under the theme of \u201cSmart City and Community Involvement.\u201d They split into 11 teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image4.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image4.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image4-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/image4-84x55.jpg 84w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Second place and $2,000 went to the creator of an app called \u201cE-Jeep Tracker,\u201d which tells a passenger how far away an e-jeep, or electric jeepney, is from where he or she is waiting, and therefore how long the wait will be. E-jeeps are a popular form of the public transport in Manila that use specific routes rather like buses.<\/p>\n<p>Third place and $1,000 went to a team that created an app called \u201cWhat Are You Craving For?\u201d This app eliminates queuing in lines by identifying restaurants with shorter wait-times for when ordering for takeaway.<\/p>\n<p>All the winning team members also won a six-month mentorship by Golden Gate Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>AT&amp;T, A SPACE Manila, Philippine Software Industry Association and Golden Gate Ventures co-hosted the event at A SPACE facilities in Manila. Participants received access to tools, knowledge and mentor support to build powerful apps within a very tight time-frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creators of an app called \u201cTollPass\u201d won the US$6,000 grand prize at 2014 Philippines Mobile App Developers\u2019 Day on Sunday night. The winning app, TollPass, offers a solution for smarter road tolls in order to reduce traffic jams and delays. Organizers Jake Jennings, Executive Director of International External and Regulatory Affairs of AT&amp;T, A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19],"tags":[2280,2261,2260,2262,318],"class_list":["post-7223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","category-headlines","tag-2014-philippines-mobile-app-developers-day","tag-a-space-manila","tag-att","tag-golden-gate-ventures","tag-philippine-software-industry-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}