THE JAMAICAN leg of the third Caribbean Open Data Conference and Code Sprint concluded recently with the results of the code sprint, a 24-hour competition that saw teams of developers using open data from government agencies to create apps.
The team sponsored by diGJamaica.com, FarmScore, placed second with their app of the same name, a credit-scoring system for farmers to be used by financial institutions. The competition was won by K2MJB, which created a farm-management app called Farma Bredrin, designed to tackle the problem of praedial larceny.
Day one of the event, themed ‘Developing the Caribbean,’ featured presentations from key players in the data and ICT industry worldwide, including director of Gleaner Online, Deika Morrison, who was instrumental in developing The Gleaner’s latest initiative, diGJamaica.com. More
