The 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge is expanding its focus to tackle the effects of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus. Technology solutions can help seize and reduce the impact this pandemic has on our daily lives. Now is the time to unite and act swiftly.
This year the competition will have two tracks. Winning solutions are deployed in communities that need the most help.
- The second track is for solutions to mitigate the impact of global pandemics like COVID-19 on communities around the world.
- One track is for solutions that help halt and reverse the impact of climate change.
What is Call for Code?
Call for Code asks innovators to create practical, effective, and high-quality applications based on one or more IBM Cloud™ services (for example, web, mobile, data, analytics, AI, IoT, or weather) that can have an immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues. Teams of developers, data scientists, designers, business analysts, subject matter experts and more are challenged to build solutions to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 and climate change.
Why focus on COVID-19?
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic poses not only a huge health concern to people – particularly the immunocompromised and elderly – but it also has had huge effects in uprooting societies and disrupting supply chains globally. They’re asking the world’s developers and subject matter experts to help tackle this pandemic by increasing awareness through communications, and by limiting the spread of infectious diseases through crisis communication, remote education, and community cooperation.
Categories
- Remote education
- Community cooperation
- Crisis communication
Worth:
Grand prize winner
- Open source project support from The Linux Foundation
- Opportunity for mentorship and investment in the solution
- $200,000 USD cash prize
- Invitation to the Call for Code Global Award Announcement
- Solution implementation support through Code and Response™
First and second runner up
- $25,000 USD cash prize
- Invitation to the Call for Code Global Award Announcement
- Open source project support from The Linux Foundation
Third and fourth runner up
- $10,000 USD cash prize
- Invitation to the Call for Code Global Award Announcement
- Open source project support from The Linux Foundation
Eligibility:
- Applicants must be over the age of 18 or the age of majority in their jurisdiction, whichever is greater.
- Employees of IBM, DCC, and governmental agencies are not eligible to participate.
- Open to all developers, designers, and entrepreneurs
- All participants must accept the terms of the Participation Agreement upon submission. Full details on eligibility can be found in the Participation Agreement.
DEADLINE: Final submission – July 31 2020
To apply and for more information visit here
