Hacking at the hurdles

摘要

THE HACKATHON, LONG used by big organisations like Microsoft to fish for innovation, might hold the key to transforming some of ports' perennial problems. Portbase's Dennis Dortland for one has high hopes that Rotterdam's World Port Hackathon might shake up a few long-standing issues. At first, they don't really appear to be issues -at least in the usual sense: Portbase is a successful, non-profit Dutch port community system used by a broad swathe of stakeholders. But as Mr Dortland points out, "being an established data hub processing over 80m messages a year can mean we are blinded by information. It's hard to see beyond what we do now."