Accelerator


AVINA Americas


Accelerator Grants Competition                                                         


The idea is simple. All the teams worked hard and created great prototypes during the hackathon back in November. Now we want to help turn prototypes into real products and services. The two winners will each receive $9,750.  Our Accelerator Grants competition is made possible by a generous support from from Alianza CAMMINA, a joint initiative of the AVINA Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Foundations.  

EligibilityThe contest is open to the teams who a) are physically based in Central America and Mexico and b) were global nominees in the Americas Datafest. 
Criteria:  The winners will have made the most substantive progress on their projects, have shown best project management skills, have the best plans for the future and the projects with the most potential to have a positive and big impact. 
Rules: The participants must agree to make their software open source or to give a “royalty-free” license to Data Center, an NGO and the Americas Datafest fiscal sponsor. 





Lucía Abelenda
Coordinator
Accelerator Fund for Civic Innovation
Fundación Avina


Mobile Platform Engineer
eBay Inc.
Maria-Ines Carrera
Software Engineer
Google.org
Software Engineer
Google  
Ariadna Font Llitjos

UX Lead and Development Manager
Watson Explorer
IBM Watson  


 Philip Greenspun   
Internet entrepreneur,
Professor
Computer Science
MIT
 
Thomas LaToza
   
Assistant Project Scientist
Department of Informatics
University of California, Irvine



Timothy C. Lethbridge

Professor 
Computer Science
University of Ottawa

Stephanie Ludi 

Associate Professor 
Software Engineering 
Rochester Institute of
Technology




Bart Massey  
Associate Professor 
Computer Science 
Portland State University 
 
 
 
 
Jorge L. Ortega Arjona   
Professor  
Departamento de Matemáticas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México


 
Steven Reiss
 
Professor  
Computer Science 
Brown University
Ian Rose 
Software Engineer
Monetology
 





Assistant Professor  
Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informazione 
Politecnico di Milano

Associate Research Professor 
PIMDEA Software Institute 
Assistant Professor  
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
Oregon State University 
 
Michal Young 
Associate Professor 
Computer and Information Science 
University of Oregon