Deadline: October 31, 2022
The Call for Code Global Challenge 2022 is now accepting applications. The Call for Code Global Challenge is a competition that challenges developers and problem solvers to create long-term open source solutions to the world’s most pressing social and humanitarian problems. This year’s competition will focus on critical global sustainability challenges.
You may learn about AI, cloud development, and emerging technologies while making a difference by participating in the Call for Code Global Challenge. Form a group and tackle challenges like strengthening supply chains, finding clean energy solutions, and protecting wildlife.
About the Challenge
How can technology help build a greener future by improving sustainable resource production, consumption, and management, reducing pollution, and protecting biodiversity?
Design and construct an open source cloud solution to address a sustainability issue as part of the 5th annual Call for Code Global Challenge. They’re encouraging developers and problem solvers to use open innovation to create technology solutions that address specific global sustainability issues in novel, provable ways. The winning Global Challenge solution will receive implementation help from IBM and the Call for Code ecosystem, allowing it to make a significant difference in the most vulnerable communities.
Your Global Challenge solution should address one of the diverse challenges aligned to sustainability:
- Build effective and efficient ways to quantifiably promote, preserve, and protect biodiversity
- Reduce global food insecurity through, as examples, improvements to distribution or sustainable farming practices
- Remove barriers to equal education access and job opportunities to further environmental justice
- Improve the ability to measure, analyze, or take decisive action on carbon emissions
- Improve access to affordable and reliable clean energy
- Improve supply chain transparency and traceability to bring fast and accurate visibility to sustainability issues where they arise
- Address issues of water scarcity and quality
- Reduce volume of and demand for materials that create the biggest waste footprint (plastics, electronics, food, textile), and encourage reuse/recycle opportunities
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Prizes
- Grand prize: $200,000 USD (Distributed by Call for Code LLC)
- The Call for Code Global Prize
- Open source support from The Linux Foundation
- Solution implementation support from IBM and the Call for Code ecosystem.
- Runner Up – $25,000 USD (Distributed by Call for Code LLC)
- Open source support from The Linux Foundation
- 2nd Runner Up – $25,000 USD (Distributed by Call for Code LLC)
- Open source support from The Linux Foundation
- 3rd Runner Up – $10,000 USD (Distributed by Call for Code LLC)
- Open source support from The Linux Foundation
- 4th Runner Up – $10,000 USD (Distributed by Call for Code LLC)
- Open source support from The Linux Foundation
- Winner – University Prize – $15,000 USD (Distributed by Call for Code LLC)
- Open source support from The Linux Foundation
- Clinton Global Initiative University will provide guaranteed acceptance to the
- CGI U 2023 class, including access to the full CGI U 2023 Annual Meeting
Eligibility
- Participants in this event must be 18 years old or have reached the age of emancipation in the jurisdiction where their project is being submitted, whichever is higher.
Judging Criteria
Each submission will be scored based on the following criteria with a minimum score of 0 and maximum score of 20 points, with the final score being the average of the judges’ scores.
- Completeness and transferability (5 points)
- Effectiveness and efficiency (5 points)
- Design and usability (5 points)
- Creativity and innovation (5 points)
Application
Call for Code is looking for apps that have a lasting, positive, and significant impact that were built during the 2022 Call for Code Global Challenge period, which runs from April 26, 2022 at 12:00 am PDT through October 31, 2022 at 11:59 pm PDT.
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