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Lviv hosted a social hackathon that brought together six teams to develop solutions for automating different projects for the benefit of the Lviv community. Organizers were the Information Technology Department of the Lviv City Council and the leader of the IT market of Ukraine – EPAM.
For 24 hours the developers, business analysts, UX designers and QA engineers worked on finding solutions for the following tasks:
EPAM analysts were accompanying each team throughout the whole hackathon. They had elaborated on each project initiative that the City Council brought in, prepared detailed specifications and requirements, and coordinated the teams for 24 hours.
There were three criteria for evaluating the teams’ work: how close the solution is to the completion stage and whether it is ready for implementation, how creative it is, and how the developed solution is presented, and the created prototype of the product demonstrated. On top of that, there was a demand to not have additional paid licensing for any of the software parts of the solution or costly infrastructure.
Each team has succeeded in realizing and presenting real technical solutions that took just 24 hours to create. Some of the solutions need polishing, though the majority may be implemented soon.
I’m pleasantly surprised by the talent of our youth and their zest. I hope we quickly implement the solution for ASCs, which won in this year’s hackathon. This project is important for the city community and is going to help our citizens, who communicate with the City Council directly or remotely, to receive a high-quality service. The feedback and timely response from the City Council are precisely the means that will refine our service. We sincerely want our city to stay not just the cultural capital and the city with a developed IT component, but capital in terms of efficiency of communication between authorities, people and the city, says Natalia Anokhina, acting head of the Information Services Department of Lviv City Council.
This has been a second Social hackathon organized together with EPAM. The teams work on not big, but very helpful solutions for different structural departments of the Lviv City Council. We are grateful to the participants for the interesting solutions on automation of processes, which we are going to implement soon. We also appreciate the support EPAM provides to such events. I suppose, we should start thinking about an incubator program, so the teams are not limited to 24 hours, but could tackle some more complicated tasks during a certain period remarked Olena Hunko, the head of the Information Technologies Department of Lviv City Council.This year’s hackathon is another event in the course of cooperation between EPAM and Lviv City Council. The first one took place in 2019. 6 out of 7 technical solutions that were developed by the teams two years ago, continue helping the departments of the City Council to effectively perform their duties.
