Beth Beck, NASA Open Innovation Program ManagerNASA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer

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Innovation through Open Data2015 Space Apps Summary

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataNASA’s open data convenes global citizens

through the International Space Apps Challenge to solve mission-relevant challenges.

Space Apps is NASA’s incubator innovation program to fulfill federal open data mandates to spur innovation.

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Innovation through Open Data

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps 2015 Participants: Self-Identified Skills Mix

Developer/Software: 5449Designer/Artist: 1978Game Design: 859Hardware: 1884Maker: 1367Story Teller: 1236Student: 7237Subject Matter Expert: 844Entrepreneur: 1940Other: 2156

Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open DataSpace Apps: Women in Data 2015 stats

• 1 in 4 participants are women• 47% of 60 top global award finalists had one or more women on

the project team• Largest event (Cairo) led by women• 49% of NYC Mainstage participants were women

Space Apps NYC Bootcamper & Award Winner Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Space Apps 2015 NYC – Data Bootcampers

Innovation through Open Data2015 Space Apps: Winners

Best Use of Data: NY Space Tag from New York City, New York offers a data tagging system that extracts keywords and core concepts to more easily query NASA data.

Best Use of Hardware: Valkyrie from Sofia, Bulgaria is a “smart” glove and mobile device that enables gesture and voice recognition to ease automation tasks for work or play.

Best Mission Concept: ArachnoBeeA from Limassol, Cyprus designed a spider-bee drone for small cargo transport with a grab and capture capability and the ability to dock and release.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Innovation through Open Data2015 Space Apps: Winners

Galactic Impact: CROPP from Rome, Italy is a bottle-bot with sensors to gather in-situ data applied to optical and radar satellite imaging to provide real-time crop risk assessment.

Most Inspirational: Tracking/ Sensing Phone-bot from Kathmandu, Nepal enables users to explore and extract data from nearby objects using a mobile robot platform with smartphone sensors.

People’s Choice Award: NatEv Explorer from Pristina, Kosovo uses real-time earth observation data to populate an interactive 3D globe for crowdsourced tagging and discovery of potential natural hazards and threats.

Beth Beck, NASA’s Open Innovation Program ManagerOffice of the Chief Information Officer