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iHub By Jessica Colaco / October 18, 2010

Session on “creative-city-berlin.de”

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Reinhard Knobelspies from Berlin who is a startup coach and consultant at KfW Gründungsberater and Founder and Manager
of studio 38 pure communication GmbH in Berlin, Germany will be facilitating a session on “creative-city-berlin”, on Tuesday the 19th of October 2010 from 6 – 7pm at the iHub.

Creative-City-Berlin.de was founded by the governmental departments for economy and culture of Berlin in conjunction with the efforts of Berlin becoming UNESCO awarded City of Design.  A few facts below:

• Concept, design and programming by studio 38
• Programming based on the much acclaimed python web framework: http://www.djangoproject.com/
• Modular functionality based on the MTV-principle (Model-Template-View)
• First phase 2007: mainly informational site with FAQ´s on creative sectors and guidance for creative entrepreneurs
• Second phase 2008: community enhancements (users can set up profiles and add own content)
• 2008: Logo competition in cooperation with jovoto.com
• Third phase 2009: adding jobboard, integrating external information through XML-feeds and API´s
• Fourth phase 2010 (current work-in-progress): interface redesign, integration of facebook connect, extending profile and portfolio functionality

Designers and Developers come and learn more about this project and platform and how we can possibly create: “Creative-City-Nairobi!”

Author : Jessica Colaco

Founding iHub Manager - 2010 - 2011 at iHub, Research Director @iHubResearch, Mobile and Robotics Tech Evangelist @iHub_Robotics, Co-Founder of @WMIAfrica and @AkiraChix, @TED Global Fellow 2009 and Guitarist.