INCA10

“Tweets for Equal Europe” shows Twitter messages dealing with such themes as poverty, minorities and the disabled on the map of Europe in real-time. The user can choose which themes s/he wants to follow and zoom into different European cities. The application also shows an automated stream of charity-related organizations and people from around the world.

Url of the application: http://www.floapps.com/lab/twitter/?equal_europe

Team members: Tapio Nurminen, Raine Rimpilä, Hans Garritzen

Video: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcxzq7ng_42vzzfcggb&interval=5&autoStart=true

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“Tweets for Equal Europe” is a visualization of European Twitter messages concerning the inclusive society; one can see tweets on different social matters in real time on the map of Europe. Filters can be used to select specific topics, cities and languages. The carousel stream at the bottom of the page features different charity organizations for further information.

Flo Apps Ltd is a Helsinki-based startup company, specializing in third generation web services (Web 3.0). It has a strong social and cultural background through its employees and its customers, many of which are non-profit and/or cultural organizations.

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For this contest we implemented a real-time android app and website-solution, which works for all mobile devices. It is a system for voting and participating in a democratic process of choosing the next song out of song suggestions, which are based on a similarity algorithm to the actual song.
The submitted system can solve two tasks: First it is a democratic system, in which the majority selects the next song out of a given set of suggested similar songs to the actual played song. Second it gives feedback to the quality of the similarity algorithm that creates the song suggestions.

Url of the application: http://voteforsong.dbvis.de/vote/

Team members:Matthias Schaefer, Florian Stoffel

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Imagine the situation that you are in a bar or a club. You have to listen to the music the DJ or a system is providing to you. Maybe it is an automatic system, which uses an algorithm to play similar songs and is trying to satisfy your likings. Of course you can also force the DJ for playing your music and fulfill your wishes, but that means you patronize the other listeners. So the “fair” solution is a voting system for the next song, which chooses the winner song with a democratic decision.

We have already implemented an automatic system which plays similar songs after each other. So our question was how to influence it and how to get feedback, if it works well. The submitted system for mobile devices solves both tasks. The functionality is as follows: Everybody gets the most three similar songs to the actual song out of a database to his mobile device either via an android app or a website. In this way everybody can vote for his favorite out of these three songs as often as he wants within the first minute of the actual song. The song with the most votes will be played next.

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We want with the use of ICT to help people to stop smoking. We provide a website with free programs, and mobile apps for Iphone and Android. We ask the people to make a small donation for our projects to help for a better world.

url of the application: http://www.quitsmokingnow.tk/

Team members: Johan Pyfferoen

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Thank you for all your submissions!
We are now reviewing all applications and checking if they fully comply with the rules.

What’s next?
Our independent INCA jury will select the top 10 projects and the winner, based on the following criteria:

Criterion 1: Degree to which the application contributes to an ‘inclusive society”
Criterion 2: Appeal of the application from a design and usability perspective
Criterion 3: Inventive and original nature of the application

The 10 winners will be announced at the iMinds Conference ( INCA Award Ceremony at 10 a.m. ) in Ghent, December 16th, 2010 and on this website (after December 16th).

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At the Inca Award edition of 2009, Twoddler won the gold. The Twoddler developers transformed a Fisher Price activity center into a communication tool that is connected to the internet and communicates via Twitter. This application allows people/children that are not capable of verbal communication to communicate through an inventive combination of hardware and software.
The jury thought Twoddler was a good, well-implemented idea with a lot of potential. It is this potential they wanted to reward.

INCA Award 2009 WINNER: Twoddler from IBBT on Vimeo.

Twoddler got a great deal of media attention on sites like CNET, Mashable, Wired, ZDnet, and Engagdet. Twoddler even made Fox News.

Twoddler on Fox News from IBBT on Vimeo.

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This year, INCA goes European.  IBBT partnered up with organisations from all over Europe:  MFG Baden-Württemberg GmbH , Réseau Lieu, I2bc, New Factory and Digiteo.

The 2010 edition well be an even bigger challenge, with participants from all over Europe.

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