The Seventh Edition of the Fifth Power Media Hackathon Named its Winners

They are the following:
  1. The NewsMaker team proposed a bot that will interact with platform readers to personalize their information-consumption experience.
  2. The Moldova.org team is going to develop a news aggregator watchful of the information quality, discouraging the distribution of misinformation. The team will use as a guide the monitoring results available on the Media Radar platform.
  3. The ‘Cu Sens’ team proposed a platform for monitoring the work of deputies of the Moldovan Parliament, a process in which the media institution’s followers will also be involved.
  4. The TV8 team will be monitoring in an interactive way how public money is spent and will involve media consumers.

The teams were awarded USD 5,000 each. In the coming months, the projects are going to be completed and officially launched to the general public. The applications will then be integrated into the media institutions’ online platforms.

The jury members noted that all the ideas were valuable, bold, and innovative. ‘We urge all the participants to realize their ideas, including in other projects because they deserve to be implemented,’ said Oxana Iutes, deputy director at Internews in Moldova.

The projects were judged by Elnara Petrova, director of the NextMedia Marketing Agency in St. Petersburg, Russia, Oxana Iutes, deputy director, Internews in Moldova, Dona Scola, co-founder, Generator Hub, Vitalie Esanu, IT expert and Dumitru Talmazan, expert in digital communication.

The 7th edition of the ‘Fifth Power’ Media Hackathon is organized by the Independent Journalism Center under ‘Media Enabling Democracy, Inclusion and Accountability in Moldova (MEDIA-M)’ Project, funded by USAID and UK and implemented by Internews in Moldova.