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Imagine Cup student teams built projects that are fun, fascinating, surprising, and even life-changing. And now Microsoft will fly 35 top teams to Seattle at the end of July for the 2014 World Finals.

How to leverage civic innovation to build better cities

Find out how Microsoft and CITYNET are helping cities like Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, respond to various urban challenges by unlocking their most important resource – the potential of their people.

Kathmandu developers use code to solve the city’s urban challenges

In a jointly organized app challenge by Microsoft and CITYNET, 103 developers got together in Kathmandu, Nepal to build web and mobile applications to improve urban living.

Microsoft-CITYNET Appathon uncovers innovative solutions for cities

The first place winning app, a solution focusing on public safety called Safety Whistle, was submitted by Yashasvi and teammates Anish Ansari, Gopal Kandoi and Rumi Shakya, who made up Team Conscientious. In this app, users can enter two to three emergency contact numbers and two to three emergency email addresses.