‘Twoddler’ New Prototype Allows Toddlers to Tweet featured on Fow news (December 8th, 2009)

The past week Twoddler, the application that won the INCA Award 09, received a lot of media coverage on the internet.

On December 2nd , The twoddler team presented their application at  BetaGroup Brussels. This resulted in a second, international media campaign.

Last weekTwoddler was feaured on Wired Mashable, Web developer Toolkit, The Huffington Post, Cnet, Engadget, geek.com, Zdnet,  and may other social media sites (see Google News).

Thanks all for retweeting!

The € 50,000 SWIFT Prize is an initiative of the King Baudoin Foundation. It will reward an original idea or project that contributes, by leveraging new technologies or making innovative use of existing technologies, to create, improve or intensify links, communication, interaction and dialogue between individuals and/or communities.

The call for projects is aimed at all individuals, associations, organisations or institutions living or established in Belgium and the Netherlands.

Applications must be submitted by 8 October 2009.

More information about the call can be found on their website.

REC Radiocentrum was at the INCA Award Ceremony on May 12th and interviewed the INCA winners that were present.
Check out the audioreport!

More audiovisual reports of the iMinds conference can be found on the REC Radiocentrum blog.

Twoddler

Team Members: Bart Swennen, Gert Vos, Johannes Taelman

What the jury said about Twoddler:
A good, well implemented idea, with a lot of potential. It allows people/children that are not capable of verbal communication to communicate through an inventive combination of hardware and software. It is this potential that we wanted to reward.

SILVER WINNERS

Hupskadee!

Team Members: Elise Huard, Patrick Debois, Wio D’Hespeel, Hendrik Dacquin
What the jury said about Hupskadee!:
A creative and very well designed way to match socially active parents and their network of babysitters. Lots of potential to expand it to an easy to use babysit marketplace.

Startcomputer

Team Members: Luk Vanlanduyt, Marieke and a lot of persons who have thought about this first solution
What the jury said about Startcomputer:
A diamond in the rough, and although it might not be suited for everybody, there is de?nitely a target group that wil bene?t greatly from this application.

Tableau

Team Members: Sébastien Van Bruaene, Boris Rogge
What the jury said about Tableau:
The simple and powerful design is well suited for its purpose, while offering good possibilities for implementing this in other public environments.

ikkanhet.be

Team Members: De Incachix: @lolly_p0p, @tijsverkoyen, @joke @lamazone @rrradiogirrrl @sasvangent @evelinemiljoen
What the jury said about ikkanhet.be:
Brought a smile to the jury’s face, and has lots of potential for extending the functionality. The jury also noted the similarities with 43things but liked the tone of voice and the way it mobilizes people to actively try to better their life and that of others.

BRONZE WINNERS

Realtime Belgian train times

Team Members: Frederik Durant (web service layer and voice application development), Nina Durant (photographs and iMovie support)
What the jury said about Realtime:
A practical application shows the clear potential for new applications by voice via any phone using public data and open API’s (that are unfortunately not available yet).

Ecoplan

Team Members: Jonas De Smet, Redg Cogghe, Koen Phlips, Filip Standaert, Wouter Vermeylen, Marc Standaert
What the jury said about Ecoplan:
Interesting web mash up that may have missed an opportunity to become a really great life style application by introducing social aspects and feedback mechanisms

iVisit

Team Members: Tom Nys, Gert Van Nespen
What the jury said about iVisit:
An application that clearly had the needs of the user in mind, rather than adhering to a push-model for cultural information. Needs some more work but has the potential to become a useful companion for culture-addicts.

Gameleon

Team Members: Bregt Colpaert
What the jury said about Gameleon:
The jury was impressed by the maturity of the application, and sees potential for expanding the model in others sectors.

TVtweets

Team Members: Yoni De Beule, Bart De Waele
What the jury said about TVtweets:
Interesting conversation starter for people who happen to be watching the same TV program in different locations. Encourages social interaction on a less-than-social medium.

Thanks again to all participants!
Check out all 35 applications here.

The first INCA Award call is now closed. Thank you all for your submissions!

The success of the first INCA Award edition proves that Flanders harbors a lot of very talented, creative and innovative people, eager to collaborate and use their knowledge to improve society.
We kept receiving submitted applications up to 2 minutes before the deadline (at midnight) yesterday night. Over 40 applications were submitted and at the moment 35 have been accepted as potential candidates for the INCA Award.

The often collaborative applications we received - provided by citizens for other citizen - offer original and practical solutions to everyday problems such as dealing with traffic and public transport, finding childcare, protecting the environment, enjoying and producing culture or managing social relations.
A full overview is available here.

What will happen now?

Some of the participants have been contacted because we have some additional questions about their applications.

Participants who have sent in an application that requires additional hardware will be asked to provide a completely installed test kit  for the jury (so the jury members can test the applications).

Next week the jury will assess the submitted projects  based on usefulness, appeal and originality.
The top 10 applications will be presented at the iMinds conference in Ghent on May 12th.
During the closing award ceremony the winners will receive a total prize money of 20.000 Euro.
Patricia Ceysens, Flemish Minister of Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation & Foreign Trade will present the first prize.

The iMinds conference is free!  You can subscribe here.

We sent out a press release today (pdf): INCA09: Flanders just as innovative as the United States

Project name: Kukoo

Kukoo helps you gain control over your email inbox again. Schedule a number of email moments a day and tell others about them. GTD meets email meets productivity. Kukoo!

Url of  the application: http://kukoo.com

Url of your video: http://www.slideshare.net/tijs/kukoo

Team Members: Piet Jaspers, Tijs Vrolix

Project name: Ikkanhet.be

ikkanhet.be is voor mensen die graag dingen leren, ervaren en delen. Wij geloven dat niet alleen de wildste dromen, maar ook kleine gewoontes je leven positief kunnen veranderen. Voor de één is de afwas elke dag doen een uitdaging, voor een ander stoppen met roken. Ikkanhet.be moedigt mensen aan zélf iets te leren of ondernemen om het leven wat fijner te maken, die droom te verwezenlijken of de wereld te verbeteren. Ze staan er ook niet alleen voor: via ikkanhet.be kun je elkaar aanmoedigen om die doelstellingen te halen.

Url of  the application: http://www.ikkanhet.be

Team Members: De Incachix: @lolly_p0p, @tijsverkoyen, @joke @lamazone @rrradiogirrrl @sasvangent @evelinemiljoen

Project name: KNNKT Twitterwall

Short description: Twitterwall die drie feeds genereerd uit onze Twitterfeed aan de hand van hashtags.

Url of  the application: http://www.knnkt.be

Team Members: Jonas Pottie, Bram Van Oost, Robin Tulkens