| | | | Saving Nordic heritage through AR
Open data hacks to save Nordic folklore, save reindeer and create meta data for large photo stocks won the three prizes at the Hack4Norden 2016 pitching competition at Slush in Helsinki.
Winning hack Hidden is a map-based gaming app that use augmented reality technology (AR) to bring old folklore tales to life in the actual locations they are connected to. In that way, the team behind the game wants to help preserve a part of the Nordic cultural heritage they feel are threatened.
Second prize winners SaveMyReindeer combines GPS tracking data from reindeer herds with real time railroad data to alert herd owners and train personnel when reindeer are at risk of being hit by trains. Third prize winner Quicktags.io uses artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning together with image data to efficiently create image tags and meta data for large image stocks.
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Nordic Built Cities Challenge winner gets global recognition
The Soul of Nørrebro, the Nordic winner of the Nordic Built Cities Challenge, is a central part of the City of Copenhagen Cloudburst Management Plan, which won the C40 Cities Awards 2016 in the âAdaption in Actionâ category in Mexico City 1 December.
All the three Nordic winners of Nordic Built Cities Challenge were represented at the C40 Mayors Summit in Mexico, where they presented their solutions at a side event featuring Raymond Johansen, Mayor of Oslo, and Frank Jensen, Mayor of Copenhagen.
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| | | Nordic Conference on Sustainable Healthcare 2017
Nordic Innovation senior adviser Mona Truelsen will be on stage discussing why the Nordic region is progressive within healthcare.
When: 15 February 2017
Where: Stockholm
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