HACKATHON for GODAN Summit

The groundbreaking HACKATHON  at GODAN SUMMIT 2016, taking place on 15th & 16th September in New York on the margin of the UN General Assembly, is the largest-ever event of its kind. The aim is to urge world leaders to open their national datasets on agriculture and nutrition to help bring hunger around the world to an end. For the first time in history, world leaders and prominent international figures will join researchers, farmers, students and public, private and non-profit organizations, to showcase the impact of open data for Agriculture and Nutrition around the world. 

. The hackathon will aim to answer the following challenge:

How might we allow for better utilization, collection, and/or accessibility to open data such that we can improve our food system and our chances at food security?

We are seeking solutions that must fit into one of the following categories:

Improve Growing Plant Innovations: Using open data to improve how and where we grow our food.

Empower the Crowd: Using open data to improve how we leverage the crowd’s actions and knowledge to create a better food system.

Improve Nutrition and Health: Using open data to improve how we track, make available, and improve nutrition in our daily diets.

Deliver Climate Smart Agriculture: Using open data to improve agriculture’s resilience in the face of a changing climate.

Meet the Protein Frontier: Using open data to improve how we address the growing demand for protein, and the opportunity for more sustainable and alternative proteins.

Prizes

There will be three winning teams, with the following prizes:

• 1st Place: $3000

• 2nd Place: $2000

• 3rd Place: $1000

Winning teams will also receive the opportunity for entrance into the GODAN Mentoring Program, powered by Thought For Food, where they will receive business mentorship and guidance on building their concept. In addition, as a result of successful completion of the GODAN Mentoring Program, teams will join the GODAN Challenge finalists in competing for the grande finale prize of the GODAN Global Open Data Challenge of $5000 and a trip to an international food security summit (summit TBD)

GODAN's goal is to make all data in agriculture and nutrition freely available for better policy and decision-making by 2050, when the global population is expected to hit 9 billion. GODAN’s ultimate ambition is to achieve the United Nations’ goal 2 – ‘zero hunger’ by 2030.