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BlueVia is a global platform but in every country we operate in we take a local approach to working with our customers. This involves sponsoring and attending hack days, co-working spaces and important events to stay connected to what matters.

Over the last year we’ve sponsored Tech Hub and spend a lot of time around Silicon Roundabout so it was natural for us to get involved with the Shoreditch Source.

The Shoreditch Source has grown out of the Digital Shoreditch festival, and it’s a guide to connect all the local digital and creative businesses. In their own words:

We’ve swept through Shoreditch and Old Street – spoken to 981 companies face to face. We found out who you are, where you are, what your speciality and passion is. Now we want to get everyone connected!

The Source will connect the talent that lies behind closed doors and hook it up directly to the community. Exposing businesses, and individual talents to the hidden markets which lie amongst our peers and neighbours: the people in the building next door, down the street, even the people who work in your building: they may know you by sight, but do they know what you do?

We want to encourage the thriving community to take a more localized approach, to make the best of the amazing creativity that has spawned around the Shoreditch area.

The launch event is tonight and tickets are still available. If you’re not at the event, take a look at the guide online once it launches and find out about the hottest creative talent in the area.

This post is from the BlueVia team in Spain about the recent Green Apps Challenge  in Brazil, supported by Telefonica.

Durante el pasado mes de noviembre, hemos comenzado a preparar el próximo lanzamiento de BlueVia en Brasil, llevando a cabo algunos contactos y actividades en colaboración. Y, tal y como hemos constatado durante nuestra visita a Rio de Janeiro y Sao Paulo, Brasil continúa su desarrollo como entorno de innovación, tecnología y nuevas ideas.

Gracias a la invitación de Cadu de Castro, responsable del espacio de innovación y coworking BeesOffices, tuvimos la oportunidad de conocer la escena de emprendedores y tecnología del nodo de Rio de Janerio. Durante nuestra visita, participamos en un HappyHours con desarrolladores y tuvimos la oportunidad de presentar BlueVia a los emprendedores que trabajan habitualmente en BeesOffices. Se mostraron tan interesados en nuestra plataforma, que ya estamos trabajando para organizar un Hackathon a comienzos del próximo año, una vez que BlueVia esté disponible en Brasil.

Ya en Sao Paulo nos esperaba un gran acontecimiento: el Hackathon organizado por Appies. Además de aprovechar para presentar BlueVia a los desarrolladores asistentes, durante el Hackathon tuvo lugar el primer Green Hacker Day de Brasil, organizado en colaboración con el equipo de Vivo, la unidad de Green Apps de Telefónica y la ITU, cuyo director regional para las Américas, Héctor Huertas, asistió al evento. Durante un día y medio tuvimos la oportunidad de compartir espacio de trabajo con los desarrolladores de la Hackathon y asistir a la creación de interesantes aplicaciones dentro del segmento de las Green Apps.

El premio del primer Green Hacker Day correspondió a la plataforma web PlanteAqui, que permite la participación ciudadana en acciones medioambientales, mediante la interacción con Smartphone, pero también con FeaturesPhone utilizando mensajería SMS.

La plataforma fue desarrollada por Tadeu Luiz Pires Gaudio, de 26 años, que viajó durante más de 7 horas desde la ciudad de Londrina, en el estado de Paraná, para asistir al Hackathon. En el proyecto colaboró también Roberto Civille Rodriguez. Como parte del premio, la aplicación fue presentada a comienzos de diciembre en Durban, durante la Conferencia del Cambio Climático.

Por último, pero no menos importante, durante este viaje conocimos la Escuela de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Sao Paulo y esperamos poder contribuir muy pronto con interesantes iniciativas.

Próxima cita: la Campus Party de Sao Paulo. Os mantendremos informados.

Here’s a good opportunity for anyone looking for exposure for their company – the GSMA is offering developers of GSMA OneAPI applications a free exhibition pass and shared access to a free serviced demonstration pod on their exhibition stand in App Planet for the 4 days of the exhibition. Telefonica supports the OneAPI initiative and so we wanted to share with our network.

Exhibiting at Mobile World Congress offers the opportunity to showcase your products and services to 60,000 key decision-makers. The Conference and Exhibition at Mobile World Congress will begin Monday, 27 February and ends on Thursday, 1 March 2012.

Here’s what you could win:
* Promote your brand at Mobile World Congress on the OneAPI stand
- Your own demo pod for a minimum of 3 hours per day
- Your company branding and messaging
- Demonstration of your apps
* Advertising support
- Promotion on the GSMA OneAPI, and Mobile World Live websites
- Print publications in the run up to the event
- MWC daily publication

What are the judges are looking for?
- Applications using OneAPI that demonstrate any of the OneAPI enablers working together (messaging, location, payment, data connection profile, call control and device capability)
- A brief presentation of how you have used OneAPI – supported with a slide presentation showing an overview of your app and code snippets.
- A fully working application and slide presentation complete by 31st Jan 2012.
- Commitment to demonstrate your apps to visitors of the exhibition pod for the times you are allocated.

Prize includes entry to MWC, worth 700 euros. Accommodation and flights are not included.

Developers are required to submit a proposal for their innovative applications that demonstrate the features of GSMA OneAPI by 9th December 2011 to Harry Campbell.