#WORLD INNOVATION DAY HACK 2021

GLOBAL AWARDS CEREMONY

April 21 - 28, 2021
3,902 Participants 427 Mentors / 211 Teams

Optimising sustainable practices for health, education, the economy and future of work with innovation, creativity and technology.

ABOUT THE COMPETITION

UNESCO, UNEP, and Hackmakers are proud to celebrate World Creativity and Innovation Day as part of the United Nations initiative. This hackathon is dedicated to collaborating with, and encouraging people to creatively use their skills in generating new ideas and solutions for health & wellbeing, economic growth, decent work and quality education.

Check out details of the relevant UN Development Goals below.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!

Winner : Team Berkeley Data Science

Finalist : Team Sign Hand

Finalist : Team Swasthya

Honourable Mention : Team Edu-FX

Honourable Mention : Team PlatoLearn

Honourable Mention : Team Medicall

CHALLENGE CATEGORIES

PREPARE TO DEVELOP YOUR SOLUTION

The challenge statements for each category will be released in the Opening Ceremony: held at 17:00 IST/ 19:30 SGT / 21:30 AEST, Friday 16 April! Submissions will need to be in video format with accompanying codebase and optional documentation. Solutions will be judged along the criteria of consistency, originality, social value, quality/design and commercialisation opportunity

We have left some challenge clues for a headstart! Hover over each card to view the challenge category background.

UN Development Goal #3: Health & Wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being at all ages.The targets cover and focus on various aspects of healthy life and healthy lifestyle. It aims to achieve universal health coverage, that seeks equitable access of healthcare services to all men and women. Solutions may include health apps, dashboards and monitoring technologies.

UN Development Goal #4: Quality Education

To ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. This goal aims to provide children and young people with quality and easily accessible education plus other learning opportunities, with one of the targets is to achieve universal literacy and numeracy.

UN Development Goal #8: Decent Work & Growth

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all. This goal aims at ensuring the economic sector of every country provides the necessary need for its citizen to have a good life irrespective of their background, race, culture or other extraneous circumstances.

SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT FOR THE GLOBAL SHOWCASE

Not available during the #WID weekend, or already have a working solution or previous hackathon project? No worries! We will be accepting completed and previous hackathon projects into the World Innovation Day Global Showcase Competition, from March 15 to June 15.