{"id":12519,"date":"2018-06-07T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=12519"},"modified":"2018-06-07T22:36:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T19:36:03","slug":"balkan-hackathon-2018-breaking-the-digital-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/balkan-hackathon-2018-breaking-the-digital-borders\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkan Hackathon 2018 \u2013 Breaking the Digital Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12350 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51.png\" alt=\"BALKAN HACKATHON CHALLENGE\" width=\"433\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51.png 953w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51-768x401.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51-600x314.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51-260x136.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51-50x26.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/chrome_2018-06-06_15-56-51-144x75.png 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/>Programmers from all Balkan countries will meet in Sofia, at the science and technology park <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia Tech Park<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on June 27-28, to encode the digital future of Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Balkan Hackathon 2018 &#8211; Breaking the Digital Borders\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will gather the best programmers, start-ups and established IT companies from all Balkan countries to find prototype solutions to the challenges <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">related to<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Europe&#8217;s digital future and the digital connectivity in the Balkans. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">projects should aim at improving online government tools, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as well as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">protecting privacy and citizens&#8217; security in a connected world, making technologies more accessible to all citizens, regardless of their <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">location<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, age, sex and occupation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The participants will compete for cash prizes provided by Mtel, Sofia Municipality and the EC Representation in Bulgaria. Furthermore, the winning team will attend the events during \u2018<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe Code Week 2018<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2018 in Brussels <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> invitation by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EU Commissioner Mariya Gabriel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The working language of the Balkan Hackathon is English, and participants should register by June 1 on the website of the Hackathon: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balkanhackathon.eu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.balkanhackathon.eu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Balkan Hackathon <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Breaking the Digital Borders\u2019<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is under the patronage of the Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel, the Minister for the Bulgarian Presidency of the EU Council Lilyana Pavlova and the Mayor of Sofia Yordanka Fandakova. It is organized by the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria, Sofia Municipality, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> State E-Government Agency, Sofia Development Association, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Webit Foundation and Sofia Tech Park.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmers from all Balkan countries will meet in Sofia, at the science and technology park Sofia Tech Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}