Deadline: 31-Oct-22
Applications are now open for the 5th annual Call for Code Global Challenge for the teams of developers and problem solvers to leverage open innovation and develop technology solutions that address specific global sustainability problems in unique, clearly demonstrable ways.
Through the 2022 Call for Code Global Challenge you can learn about AI, cloud development and emerging technologies while you make a difference. Form a team and take on sustainability issues from improving supply chains to clean energy solutions and protection of biodiversity.
The top Global Challenge solution receives implementation support from IBM and the Call for Code ecosystem to make a real impact in the communities with the greatest need.
By participating in the Global Challenge, in addition to the chance to win prizes and implementation support, you’ll build critical skills for yourself and your team and contribute to projects that have the potential to help our planet.
Challenges
The Global Challenge solution should address one of the diverse challenges aligned to sustainability:
- 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, textiles), and encourage reuse/recycle opportunities
- 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
Prizes
- $285,000 USD total prize pool amount : All winners will receive open source support from the Linux Foundation.
- Grand Prize Winner ($200,000USD): Winning team will also receive solution implementation support from IBM and the Call for Code ecosystem.
- 1st runner-up : $25,000 USD
- 2nd runner-up : $25,000 USD
- 3rd runner-up : $10,000 USD
- 4th runner-up : $10,000 USD
- University prize winner ($15,000 USD): Guaranteed acceptance to the CGI U 2023 class, including access to the full CGI U 2023 Annual Meeting
Benefits of participation
- IBM Cloud
- Challenge Accelerators
- Webinar expert
- Mentors and team resource
- IBM SkillsBuild Learning Plan
- The Weather Company APIs
- Sponsored toolkits, APIs, and datasets
Who should participate?
There are many ways you can build a great team, but the most successful teams often bring together diverse skill sets to design unique and impactful solutions. Consider building your team to include:
- Builders: The tech mastermind of your team. The builder is the methodical, digital-obsessed teammate who brings the technical know-how to help ground your solution in what’s possible.
- Designers: Your UX expert who ensures the solution is user-friendly and visually appealing.
- Communicators: Good communicators make complex ideas simple and inspiring.
- Humanitarians: Altruistic thinkers who understand the complex problems at hand in a truly human way and are committed to finding a solution to make a demonstrable difference.
Eligibility Criteria
This contest is void to residents of US embargoed countries and is void wherever restricted by, without limitation, filing or registration requirements, or is otherwise prohibited or restricted by law. In addition, employees, employers, officers and directors of:
- IBM Group, including Red Hat
- Government agencies, departments, branches, instrumentalities and public enterprises, whether regional, national or local
- Any advertising and promotion agencies, and those individuals and entities involved in the preparation of materials for, administration, organization (including David Clark Cause) and/or execution of this event and/or this Contest (all collectively the “Promotion Entities”
- The immediate family members (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse, including step and foster relations) regardless of where they reside, and/or individuals living in the same household (whether or not related) of any of the Promotion Entities are not eligible to participate in the Contest.
- Prior to registering for the Event, each participant, whether individually or as part of a team, must ensure that he/she is in compliance with any employment or other contract to which he/she is a party on issues such as , but not limited to, eligibility to participate, intellectual property and acceptance of prizes.
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