NEW YORK, September 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
DOVU, the blockchain transport data initiative, will showcase
its software at the forthcoming Jaguar Land Rover Developer
Challenge, to be held in Slovakia
at the end of the month.
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The hackathon will take place around the theme of 'smart
mobility', and will feature two specific challenges for developers:
a mobile app that will incentivise car sharing, with the aim of
decreasing overall vehicle emissions; and a seamless solution for
multi-modal transport planning, uniting train and bus timetables,
city bike schemes and other useful information within a single
interface. Prizes totalling EUR 6,000
are available.
DOVU: blockchain data market
DOVU, which is backed by Jaguar Land Rover's innovation arm
InMotion Ventures, is a natural partner for this event. The project
aims to equip the mobility industry with large, high-quality data
sets that are crowdsourced from across the transport ecosystem,
from individual travellers to large corporations and third-party
services. This extensive and granular data will then be made
available to developers and transport companies via a
blockchain-based marketplace, rewarding those who provide it with
the Ethereum-based DOV token.
DOVU will be involved in the hackathon in a number of ways. The
company will be making its current platform available on an as-is
basis - giving developers the opportunity to test its functionality
before the formal release. This will include access to API's for
Lyft (ridesharing), Citymapper (public transport networks) and Dark
Sky (weather data), allowing developers to plug straight into a
broad range of transport-related data feeds. What3words, a
geo-coding system that is used to communicate location anywhere in
the world down to the resolution of a 3x3m square, can easily be
integrated with these APIs. DOVU will provide remote technical
support for participants over the course of the two-day
hackathon.
In due course, DOVU's own open APIs will be made available to
developers, vastly simplifying data acquisition and enabling
data-led insights and innovation.
Crowdsale
DOVU is currently holding a crowdsale for its DOV tokens, which
act as the 'fuel' for its transport data network and marketplace.
The pre-sale is open until Monday 25th September, with the public
token sale scheduled for 3rd October.
For more information about the Jaguar Land Rover hackathon,
visit http://www.jlrdevchallenge.com. For more information about
DOVU, or to participate in the crowdsale, visit
http://www.Dovu.io.