NASA Challenge Indonesia

Today the competition to make application to the U.S. government's spaceagency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) opened in@ America, Jakarta.
The competition was held in 24 locations across 17 countries such as India,Brazil, the United States, Britain, and Japan.

International Space Apps Challenge aims to provide a platform for people whoare interested in space exploration. The event lasted for two days is challengingdevelopers to create applications for the technology solutions that can meet thesocial needs of space exploration as well.

NASA provides more than 40 tasks that have been whittled down to 8 forimplementation in Jakarta. The competition is divided into four categories, data visualization, knowledge of the citizens, open hardware and software. Thesechallenges are given:

1. HTML5 applications for Earth Observation
2. Preliminary designs for the Open Data API
3. Aurora layers for Google Earth
4. Mapping the Mobile Environment
5. Hazard Mapping of Resources for Social Media
6. Information Sharing for Humanitarian Crisis Response
7. Application of Earth Day
8. Predicted sky

Space Apps competition is expected to open innovation and collaborativeproblem solving. Registration can be done directly on the official site of this race.The number of participants in some cities has reached capacity as in New York,Sydney and Stuttgart.