Exploring hackathons: civic vs. product innovation hackathons Ghent University
Hackathons are emerging worldwide as a new, grassroots interaction model to innovate with end-users. Whether they are called hackathons, hack days, codefests or makathons, a wide variety of organizations organize such events to attract skilled volunteers to work with their data, technology or solve specific issues by means of technological solutions. While the origins of this phenomenon are to be found in the open source community, this ...