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Hack For Social Impact
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| With Chan Zuckerburg Initiative, United Nations Convention To Combat Desertification, Fetch AI Innovation Lab, Prem AI. $3K in cash prizes. |
| DG717, 717 Market St, San Francisco |
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Nov 09 (Sat) @ 09:30 AM
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Make an impact on real world problems in a single weekend!
Join Hack for Social Impact & tackle real-world challenges! We are teaming up with United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification & Chan Zuckerburg Initiative & other non-profit partners to present you with important, pressing, & well-scoped challenges. These problems can be solved by you!
In addition to cash prizes & perks from our sponsors, winners will get the chance to implement their ideas with our partners & drive meaningful change.
Solve problems like...
Land degradation, drought, & people
How does land degradation affect natural disasters such as drought? How does it impact the lives of people in economic & social indicators? How effective is land restoration in different areas in leading to economic growth & economic well-being? What tools can you build to help in the analysis of these factors?
Fast & accurate translation of UN documents in highly technical contexts
UN documents are domain specific & 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 & 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 & confusing space for new housing to be built. Is it possible to create a system that can clearly organize & display differences in building codes? It would be an immense help to affordable housing construction & policy change!
**More details on problem statements & 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 & 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, & more to come!
For more information: https://www.hackforsocialimpact.com/
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