150 software developers,designers and entrepreneurs will pay £25 each to spend weekend inventing apps to improve UK rail networkWith its £38.5bn five-year contrivance to upgrade the railways yet to bring the desired results, the cash-strapped Department for Transport is turning to the tech world to spark some creative fixes and launching a 48-hour hackathon to improve Britain’s trains.
An estimated 150 software developers, and designers and entrepreneurs from across the world will board trains from London to York on Friday and attempt to find unique ways to make the railway more efficient.
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Source: theguardian.com