Welcome to the San Francisco Smart City App Hack!
As part of the Startup in Residence program, the San Francisco Smart City App Hack brought together startups and City departments to explore innovative approaches to civic issues in order to lower costs, increase efficiency, and enhance communities. Six teams of City staff and startups worked collaboratively for four months to prototype and test solutions to challenges such as tracking neighborhood air quality, sending emergency notifications, and providing airport navigation for the blind and visually impaired.
The Challenge

While San Francisco is an international hub for entrepreneurship and innovation, the nascent government technology ecosystem is missing one critical element – insight into pain points of the government customer and an understanding of government mechanics. The Startup in Residence model bridges this gap by connecting public-sector staff directly with entrepreneurs to seed problem discovery and product development. Government has the potential to support a large ecosystem of best-of-breed solutions helping catalyze public sector innovation and productivity.
The solutions developed by the startups for the Smart City App Hack touch upon many themes and challenges of everyday life in the city such as:
Apps are currently been selected by an online jury. Stay tuned to meet the lucky ones!
Local SCAH Prizes:

BEST APP PRIZE
A direct slot to pitch your app representing San Francisco in the Grand SCAH Final at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona
Global SCAH Prizes:

MASTERCARD SPECIAL PRIZE
Spot in the Grand Finale of the MasterCard Masters of Code in Silicon Valley + airfare + accommodation + the chance to win more great prizes!

5 x BEST APP PRIZES
5.000€ cash prizes for the Best App in each of the five categories of the challenge.

BEST FIWARE APP PRIZE
Accelerate your app in the market (more than 100K€ in grants) and make it visible at the Mobile World Congress 2016. The less you can get is 10.000 €!
Official San Francisco Smart City App Hack partner
