Putting us on the m-app!
20 Jun 2016
University app-creating software project mappademia wins funding
A University app-creating software project has won funding from JISC, the UK higher education, further education and skills sectors’ not-for-profit organisation for digital services and solutions.
mappademia, devised by Matt Stallard, a doctoral student in American Studies, has secured £2,000 funding as part of JISC’s Student Innovation competition.
Thanks to his University colleagues, who voted and shared online, the project will now receive professional and technical support in a four-day workshop before being pitched to JISC executives for the chance to be chosen as one of five projects to be developed and distributed by JISC.
mappademia will be a piece of software which allows any group of researchers and students to easily create their own map-based mobile apps without any previous programming experience, to distribute research and information, to gather information from students and the public, and potentially generate apps for local galleries, museums, archives, charities, and community groups, then freely distribute them through the app store.
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