TiE Announces Winner of the Smart Cities Hackathon
In January of this year, TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) - Silicon Valley Chapter, held a hackathon centered around their latest initiative - Smart Cities. If you don't know TiE, they are a global entrepreneur organization and network helping support entrepreneurs around the globe with its local chapters. TiE's Smart Cities initiative focuses on fostering innovation that improves quality of urban services, reduces cost of providing these services, creates efficient resource utilization, and helps improve the quality of life of citizens. Their hackathon brought 100 global teams together to tackle the world's social and civil issues and specifically - waste management. Here is the context of why this is important today: Waste Management Facts: 62 million tones of garbage is generated annually by the 377 million people living in urban India, now the world’s third-largest garbage generator! In a city like Bengaluru, the solid waste ...