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Рy16 July 2017
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Kreyon, NowTime and Di'Art are the teams that won the third “Fifth Power” media hackathon organized by the Independent Journalism Center and Internews on July 14 to 16 at the IT center Tekwill.
The three winning teams will receive prizes of 4,000 $ each to implement their projects.
Winners were selected after 72 participants from Moldova for three days worked on IT projects and web or mobile apps that could help media to make money from online content.
The event was attended by national and international experts in IT, design and media, who provided assistance to participating teams, made presentations and gave master classes on such topics as what to do for the audience and with its help; what Native Advertising is, how it works and how it is done; working process from news to traffic and entertainment; crowdfunding; etc.
Members of the jury were Cornelia Cozonac, president of the Journalistic Investigations Center (Moldova); Dona Scola, co-founder of Generator Hub and of DNT Association (Moldova); Dmytro Tuzhanskyi, media expert (Ukraine); Jakub Gornicki, Outriders (Poland); and Razvan Baltaretu, VICE (Romania).
The jury assessed projects based on criteria of usefulness, feasibility and novelty, and also based on the progress made by the team during the hackathon.
22 teams registered for the hackathon, and 14 of them, specialized in IT, journalism, communication, librarianship, civil society and other areas, took part in the final competition. The list of participants who entered the hackathon can be viewed here.
The three winning teams will receive prizes of 4,000 $ each to implement their projects.
Winners were selected after 72 participants from Moldova for three days worked on IT projects and web or mobile apps that could help media to make money from online content.
The event was attended by national and international experts in IT, design and media, who provided assistance to participating teams, made presentations and gave master classes on such topics as what to do for the audience and with its help; what Native Advertising is, how it works and how it is done; working process from news to traffic and entertainment; crowdfunding; etc.
Members of the jury were Cornelia Cozonac, president of the Journalistic Investigations Center (Moldova); Dona Scola, co-founder of Generator Hub and of DNT Association (Moldova); Dmytro Tuzhanskyi, media expert (Ukraine); Jakub Gornicki, Outriders (Poland); and Razvan Baltaretu, VICE (Romania).
The jury assessed projects based on criteria of usefulness, feasibility and novelty, and also based on the progress made by the team during the hackathon.
22 teams registered for the hackathon, and 14 of them, specialized in IT, journalism, communication, librarianship, civil society and other areas, took part in the final competition. The list of participants who entered the hackathon can be viewed here.
