A total of 20 participants from different countries and disciplines met in Castellón last weekend (October 30 – 31) for participating the First edition of Castellón AppChallenge, a marathon for the development and design of web or mobile applications focused on citizen participation.

The agenda started with an Introduction for creating a Geoportal. Afterwards, a brainstorming session for generating ideas gave rise to the hackaton itself. After14 hours of intense work (and some leisure time) a total number of 6 GeoApps were developed. GeoApss covered diverse topics such as pharmacies, criminality, cultural agenda, transport mobility, supply food sector and traffic signals.

The winners of the First edition of Castellón AppChallenge were:

1. Trafiko. Gina Martinez, Abraham Benítez, María Mañes Velasco. http://bit.ly/1Wpzx9n

2. Foodvivors. Esther Barred Albert, Francisco Vidan Falomir. No link available

3. Your time. Alberto García, Enric Gimeno, David Frias. http://slides.com/vitus/deck/fullscreen#/

The organizers have highlighted the satisfactory participation in the event and their results, indicating the willingness to support some of the applications developed to take them into production. GEOTEC would specially like to thank GeoDevelopers, Castellón city council and ESRI Spain for their participation, as well as Espaitec for hosting us.

See here the whole event in Storify

Check out some photos of the event in Instagram

See also press notes published by UJI at http://ujiapps.uji.es/com/agenda/2015/10/30/app-challenge/ and  http://ujiapps.uji.es/com/noticies/2015/11/1q/castello-app/  [In Spanish]