Green Hackathon: Hacking for Sustainable Food
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Jorge Luis Zapico KTH Centre for Sustainable Communications, Stockholm, Sweden Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden [email protected] !! Abstract— The ICT4S Green Hackathon was an event exploring the use of information and communications technologies in sustainable food production and consumption, where developers, designer and problem owners met for creating prototypes and applications for a whole day. This article presents the concept, implementation, results and lessons learned from this event.
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