The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Geneva Trade Platform (GTP) invite student teams to join us for a non-technical hackathon on imagining apps for sustainable agriculture.
If you are a student enrolled at University, gather a team of up to three of your friends and sign up for this three day Hackathon on how technology can be used to improve outcomes for farmers, agricultural policy maker and others.
Details below!
Participating student teams will be given 72 hours to come up with and outline a vision for how a mobile phone application could address the challenge question, and to outline how such an app would function and look.
Shortlisted teams will then be asked to present their ideas to a panel of judges on the 17th of November, before the first, second and third place winners are announced.-
Teams will be evaluated by a panel of experts on (i) the creativity and originality of proposed solutions, (ii) proposals solves and genuine problem, (iii) the feasibility of the proposed path forward, and (iv) style, structure and clarity of presentation.
Registration will be open until 10th November 2022, 23:59 CET.
The Hackathon is open to teams of between two (2) and four (4) higher education students;
All team members must be currently enrolled as students at a higher education institution;
The competition is open to higher education students of any age and within any discipline;
All members of a winning team will need to prove their enrollment prior to any prizes being awarded;
The Hackathon will be entirely virtual and there are no geographic or national limitations on participation.
Team members will however need to be available to participate virtually on November 17th 2022 from 12:30 to 14:00 CET, where the 3 teams shortlisted will be asked to present their ideas and answer questions ahead of the jury’s final decision.