According to Tech Native, understanding the impact of the global population is important for long term sustainability, as it poses significant challenges. Infrastructure companies need to consider environmental indicators like air quality, water … Read more
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Thanks to new investments, Codemotion will grow larger and better
It has been almost 7 years since Chiara Russo and Mara Marzocchi founded Codemotion. When comparing the platform as it is today to what it was like in the beginning, so much has changed! And much will change in the future. What remains unchanged is … Read more
Join a COVID-19 Hackathon: 10 Reasons why you Should get Involved
We're all sitting at home to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and many of us are feeling pretty helpless. You might have offered to pick up groceries for an elderly neighbour or helped a friend set up Zoom and other remote tools to enable them to work … Read more
How technology is protecting endangered species
Collaborations are bringing technologists and conservationists together to fight to protect wildlife from being wiped off the face of the planet. Environmentalists have long had a daunting challenge ahead of them when it comes to protecting animals … Read more
Ageism in Tech: Is Your Developer Career Over after you Turn 40?
When you begin your professional working life, you fear not being taken seriously due to a lack of experience and youth. But what happens as you get older? Unsuccessful job interviews are attributed to cultural fit. You realise you're the only person … Read more
What Developers can do to Help Fight the Coronavirus
You're no doubt reading this while sitting at home, perhaps staring out the window wondering if it's too early for lunch or too late for a second breakfast and if you can borrow the neighbour's dog so you can go for a walk. We now live in strange … Read more
The lifecycle of the developers’ career
The working situation in Italy has long been under the magnifying glass. The best talents, particularly the young ones, agree to work abroad as in Italy the pay and career conditions are very low. This also applied to developers' careers. What we … Read more
Coronavirus: a puzzle game to help in finding a cure
We are all aware about the new coronavirus COVID-19, and how it is rapidly spreading everywhere in the world. The World Health Organization and all the national sanitary systems are working on finding a solution to this global problem. But what we … Read more
3 ways Codemotion tries to promote continuous learning
Technologies and best practices are constantly evolving. This means that software developers' skills and experiences can rapidly become out-of-date. To be successful and content, the best employers ensure employees adapt and develop their skills … Read more
Disability tech is booming – but where are the disabled leaders?
Designing for disability, producing new products to help disabled people, is a growing trend in the tech industry. European startups making tech products to help disabled people are entering a booming global assistive technology market worth $26bn by … Read more
Tech’s BAME heroes
Look at the faces on the boards and senior management teams of most tech companies. What do you notice? These faces represent the brain of the organisation: what keeps it moving forward, driving innovation, looking to the future. If they consist … Read more
How can businesses attract more women into leadership positions?
Leaders within the tech industry have been keen to pat their own backs recently for the work they’re doing to encourage women into the workplace. But the latest figures still highlight a huge gap between men and women, particularly in terms of … Read more
Unconscious bias training: what is it and how effective is it in increasing diversity?
A company can begin with a genius idea, solid finances and a clear pathway to success. But no organisation can truly survive and thrive without good staff. Recruitment, therefore, is an essential process in sourcing staff who will strengthen company … Read more
How do we make tech less male, pale and stale?
Tech tends to focus on the new, whether this is in emerging zeitgeist trends or in discovering how to make processes simpler, quicker and better. But the industry itself seems to be stuck in its own time warp, with a reputation for being male, pale … Read more
Funding to help kids learning: ScienceMotion project at Codemotion Agora
Recently, Codemotion launched Agora, a platform that allows developer to share their projects with our community. Codemotion users can then vote for the best project, which will get funding – up to 5000 €! One of the project that are now part of … Read more
Funding your project: experience with Codemotion Agora
Recently, Codemotion launched Agora, a platform that allows developer to share their projects with our readers and community. You can vote for the best project, which will get funding – up to 5000 €! Among the many participants, we interviewed … Read more
This week’s top tech news stories
Happy Friday! Welcome to our roundup of the biggest tech stories in the news this week.We're going to find aliens, say scientistsThe search for extraterrestrial lifeforms has ramped up as space agencies launched ambitious programmes to answer … Read more
An ode to the Commodore 64 – Chiara Russo
This is my Commodore 64 and it's because of this that my passion for IT was born. With this I wrote my first lines of code. Who of you started in the same way, with a Commodore 64? Many, I'm sure! The Commodore 64 was the protagonist of an era, … Read more
Election technology: making voting great again?
Boris in No. 10, Putin in the Kremlin, Trump in the White House. Our voting decisions in national elections have an enormous impact, for better or for worse.But how to vote in an election is changing across the world, thanks to digital … Read more
Codemotion is funding projects with Agora: the case of nCine
Recently, Codemotion launched Agora, a platform that allows developer to share their projects with our community. Codemotion users can then vote for the best project, which will get funding - up to 5000 €! We interviewed Angelo Theodorou, who … Read more