Posts in category "Press"

March 22, 2012

Cicero's new REST API is mentioned on ProgrammableWeb

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With the launch of Cicero's new REST API a few days ago, Adam DuVander of ProgrammableWeb talks about the next wave of API's and how this approach is quickly changing organizations. Read more her… continue reading
March 20, 2012

Technically Philly highlights the winners of Hack the Change

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Yael Borofsky of Technically Philly highlights the winners of Hack the Change, two of whom are members of the Azavea team. Bennet Huber, Software Developer, and Joe Tricarico, Software Developer … continue reading
March 19, 2012

Azavea's Joe Tricarico and Bennet Huber helped design the winning hack at Hack the Change this past weekend

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Alex Zimmerman of The Daily Pennsylvanian recaps Hack the Change, a three-day hackathon dedicated to solving social issues related to international development, disaster management, atrocities pr… continue reading
March 13, 2012

The MyHeartMap Challenge is highlighted on Dice

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Michelle Greenlee of Dice talks about the MyHeartMap Challenge, the contest that combines crowdsourcing and geospatial analysis (GIS) software to locate and map out the location of automated… continue reading
March 7, 2012

Technically Philly and Robert Cheetham of Azavea talk OpenTreeMap

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Yael Borofsky of Technically Philly talked with Azavea's President & CEO Robert Cheetham about OpenTreeMap, an open source public inventorying platform that enables individuals, organizations, an… continue reading
February 28, 2012

Flying Kite Media recaps the Code for America Hackathon held at Azavea

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Ivana Ng of Flying Kite Media recaps the Code for America Hackathon held here at Azavea this past Saturday. It was a great turnout and there was even a surprise visit by the Mayor of Philadelphia. Cli… continue reading
February 27, 2012

The Code for America Civic Hackathon this weekend received a special visit from Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

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Yael Borofsky of Technically Philly highlights the Code For America Civic Hackathon that was held right here at Azavea this past Saturday. There were about 50 attendees at the all day event which incl… continue reading
February 22, 2012

DistrictBuilder is mentioned in O'Reilly Radar in an article about data for the public good

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Alex Howard of O'Reilly Radar talks about examples of where data for the public good is already having an impact upon the world we live in. DistrictBuilder, a web-based open source software … continue reading
February 16, 2012

GovFresh highlights the purpose and key features of DistrictBuilder

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Luke Fretwell of GovFresh takes a look at the background and key features of DistrictBuilder, a web-based open source software for collaborative redistricting that Azavea helped build and implement. R… continue reading
January 31, 2012

The Philadelphia Inquirer highlights a new contest in the city: The MyHeartMap Challenge

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Inquirer Staff Writer Marie McCullough talks about the new contest that the City of Philadelphia will have a chance to participate in, the MyHeartMap Challenge. A project of the University of Pen… continue reading