🚀Make an impact on real world problems in a single weekend!🚀
Join Hack for Social Impact and tackle real-world challenges! We are teaming up with United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and Chan Zuckerburg Initiative and other non-profit partners to present you with important, pressing, and well-scoped challenges. These problems can be solved by you!
In addition to cash prizes and perks from our sponsors, winners will get the chance to implement their ideas with our partners and drive meaningful change.
Solve problems like...
💧💧Land degradation, drought, and people
How does land degradation affect natural disasters such as drought? How does it impact the lives of people in economic and social indicators? How effective is land restoration in different areas in leading to economic growth and economic well-being? What tools can you build to help in the analysis of these factors?
🇺🇳🌏💬Fast and accurate translation of UN documents in highly technical contexts
UN documents are domain specific and involve complex concepts not common enough in most language models to be readily translated accurately. Build natural language systems that can learn from existing official documents and translate these documents into other UN official languages or tools to assist official translators in producing accurate documents.
🏠🏠Understanding building codes for housing affordability
Each jurisdiction in California has a different building code that developers have to follow to construct new housing creating a fragmented and confusing space for new housing to be built. Is it possible to create a system that can clearly organize and display differences in building codes? It would be an immense help to affordable housing construction and policy change!
**More details on problem statements and requisite datasets will be provided on the day of the hackathon. You will also be able to talk with a representative from the non-profits to better understand the problem statements.
Prize
🏆First place: $3000 project grant* or $2000 cash prize
🏆Second place: $2000 Project grant* or $1000 Cash prize
*Project grant= collaborate with the non-profit to complete the project to a deployable state, best faith effort.
Also .. 👀 Prizes for Best Use of Technology by Fetch.ai and Prem AI !
Our Partners:
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Terner Housing for Housing Innovation, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto
Our Sponsors:
Prem AI, Fetch.ai, Fetch AI Innovation Lab, and more to come!
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For more information: https://www.hackforsocialimpact.com/
