THELOGICALINDIAN - DOVU the blockchain carriage abstracts action will advertise its software at the accessible Jaguar Land Rover Developer Challenge to be captivated in Slovakia at the end of the month
The hackathon will booty abode about the affair of ‘smart mobility’, and will affection two specific challenges for developers: a adaptable app that will incentivise car sharing, with the aim of abbreviating all-embracing agent emissions; and a seamless band-aid for multi-modal carriage planning, chain alternation and bus timetables, burghal bike schemes and added advantageous advice aural a distinct interface. Prizes accretion EUR 6,000 are available.
DOVU: Blockchain Data Market
DOVU, which is backed by Jaguar Land Rover’s addition arm InMotion Ventures, is a accustomed accomplice for this event. The activity aims to accouter the advancement industry with large, high-quality datasets that are crowdsourced from beyond the carriage ecosystem, from alone travelers to ample corporations and third-party services. This all-encompassing and diminutive abstracts will again be fabricated accessible to developers and carriage companies via a blockchain-based marketplace, advantageous those who accommodate it with the Ethereum-based DOV token.
DOVU will be complex in the hackathon in a cardinal of ways. The aggregation will be authoritative its accepted belvedere accessible on an as-is base – giving developers the befalling to analysis its functionality afore it has been formally released. This will accommodate admission to the Lyft (ridesharing), Citymapper (public carriage networks) and Dark Sky (weather data) APIs, acceptance developers to bung beeline into a ample ambit of transport-related abstracts feeds. What3words, a geo-coding arrangement that is acclimated to acquaint area anywhere in the apple bottomward to the resolution of a 3x3m square, can calmly be chip with these APIs. DOVU will accommodate alien abstruse abutment for participants over the advance of the two-day hackathon.
In due course, DOVU’s own accessible APIs will be fabricated accessible to developers, awfully simplifying abstracts accretion and enabling data-led insights and innovation.
Crowdsale
DOVU is currently captivation a crowdsale for its DOV tokens, which act as the ‘fuel’ for its carriage abstracts arrangement and marketplace, the crowdsale launches 3 October.
For added advice about the Jaguar Land Rover hackathon, appointment www.jlrdevchallenge.com. For added advice about DOVU, or to participate in the crowdsale, appointment www.Dovu.io.
