{"id":7387,"date":"2015-01-11T11:17:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=7387"},"modified":"2015-01-11T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T03:26:43","slug":"globe-lends-support-ps-philgeps-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2015\/01\/11\/globe-lends-support-ps-philgeps-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe lends support to PS-PhilGEPS ‘Hackathon’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a supporter of the Philippine government\u2019s drive to institutionalize transparency in its transactions, Globe Telecom hosted the recent #KabantayNgBayan: Procurement Hack. It gathered developers, \u201cdata gurus\u201d and designers in a competition to ideate potential applications or \u201capps\u201d to help Filipinos understand and monitor the government\u2019s procurement process, match government needs with prospective bidders and assemble a history or track record or previous bidders.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GLOBE\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The \u201cHackathon\u201d was the result of the collaborative efforts of Globe, the Procurement Service and Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PS-PhilGEPS), as well as Open Data Philippines to harness the potential of information and communications technology or ICT in promoting government transparency, and increasing public awareness of the procurement process by way of a \u201chack\u201d marathon-competition where participants can create apps inside 24 hours to solve a particular challenge.<\/p>\n

Developers, programmers, designers, researchers and information technology experts in groups of three to four converged for the \u201cHackathon\u201d to create web-based and mobile apps intended to facilitate efficiency in bidding and open up the procurement process to the public. They were provided with ultra-fast data connections as well as a conducive work environment to assist them in creating innovative apps from government data.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobe is one with the Philippine government in its quest to promote transparency and accountability to its citizens. By way of our collaboration and participation to the PS-PhilGEPS \u2018hackathon,\u2019 we are encouraging opportunities for our best ICT talents to take part and in this endeavor,\u201d said Globe VP for IT-Enabled Services Group Rey Lugtu.<\/p>\n

“As with our previous \u2018hackathons,\u2019 the Procurement Hack aims to promote civic participation in national affairs. By bringing together different sectors, the hackathon provided a platform for collaboration among various groups\u2014government, the private sector, civil society, and international partners. It is also in line with the Aquino administration\u2019s commitment to tuwid na daan<\/i> and to reforms in public expenditure,” said Presidential Spokesperson Sec. Edwin Lacierda, in a statement.<\/p>\n

Globe executives led by Head of Device and Customization for myBusiness John Bibal and Head of Products, Service and Delivery for IT Enabled Services Group Michael Sy shared their IT expertise as members of the panel who rated the app submissions. Globe Labs, the developer community of Globe Telecom, also provided a technical workshop for the application program interfaces\u2019 SMS, voice, charging and location based-services.<\/p>\n

Out of 22 teams which produced web-based and mobile apps, the Gold Prize went to Team PewPew\u2019s MetroLitrato, a crowdsourcing mobile app which helps track the progress of government infrastructure projects by collecting photos from citizens and displaying them in a timeline. Team SillyWalk\u2019s Market Snitch, a market research tool aiming to help facilitate the creation of accurate budget estimates based on current market prices was good for the Silver Prize. Rounding up the winners with the Bronze Prize was Rod Coronel\u2019s Transparent Procurement which feature projects open for bidding via Facebook, Twitter, and email. All three groups took home cash prizes as well as other gadgets and peripherals. In addition, they will closely work with PS-PhilGEPS to further improve their developed apps.<\/p>\n

For more information on Globe IG\u2019s M2M solutions, visit m2msolutions.globe.com.ph<\/a> or send an email to\u00a0ig.marketing@globe.com.ph<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cHackathon\u201d was the result of the collaborative efforts of Globe, the Procurement Service and Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PS-PhilGEPS), as well as Open Data Philippines to harness the potential of information and communications technology or ICT in promoting government transparency, and increasing public awareness of the procurement process by way of a \u201chack\u201d marathon-competition where participants can create apps inside 24 hours to solve a particular challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1779],"tags":[2322,2329,2327,212,33,2323,2193,2331,2316,2326,2324,2328,2325,2330],"class_list":["post-7387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-headlines-2","tag-kabantayngbayan-procurement-hack","tag-designers","tag-developers","tag-globe","tag-globe-telecom","tag-hackathon","tag-ict","tag-information-technology-experts","tag-it","tag-open-data-philippines","tag-procurement-service-and-philippine-government-electronic-procurement-system","tag-programmers","tag-ps-philgeps","tag-researchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387","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=7387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}