European Union is organising tech events and a hackathon challenge to make new apps for smart cities

The European Union Delegation is organising a series of tech events across four cities, including a hackathon challenge in Bengaluru, which aims to imagine new applications that a smart city could offer to its citizens.[caption id="attachment_3736917" align="alignleft" width="380"] Representational image. Reuters.[/caption]The hackathon will be hosted at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on 16 February, the EU Delegation in New Delhi said in a statement."This initiative is just one example of how we are implementing the decision taken at the India-EU Summit held on 6 October 2017 to broaden EU-India's cooperation on ICT standardisation," Ambassador of the European Union to India Tomasz Kozlowski was quoted as saying in the statement.The winning team of the hackathon will be awarded a trip to Estonia, supported jointly by the European Union and Estonia, to attend the Estonian flagship startup and technology event, Latitude59, it said.Four tutorials (Delhi- 12 February; Hyderabad- 14 February; Bengaluru- 15 February, and Chandigarh- 19 February) are also being organised.The hackathon will familiarise Indian developers, especially from startups and academia, with emerging global standards for machine-to-machine communications (M2M) and the Internet of Things (IoT).These events are being organised in cooperation with Indian and European partners under an EU-funded project supporting cooperation between India and the EU on ICT standardisation.According to the statement, "This hackathon aims to imagine new applications that a smart city could offer to its citizens, its elected officials or its technical and administrative services in a multi-domain vision based on the oneM2M standard."