The COVID-19 Detect & Protect Challenge by UNDP

OPPORTUNITY DETAILS

Total reward

0 $

Association

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Deadline

30 Jun 2020

Study level

Undergraduate

Opportunity type

Competitions

Opportunity funding

Full funding

Eligible Countries

This opportunity is destined for all countries

Eligible Region

All Regions

Application call for the COVID-19 Detect & Protect Challenge.

The COVID-19 Detect & Protect Challenge is the collaboration with Adafruit, Amazon Web Services, Arduino, Arm, Avnet, balena, DFRobot, Google, Microsoft, Nordic Semiconductor, NVIDIA, NXP, Seeed, Silicon Labs, SORACOM, The Things Network, Ubidots, UNDP and UNICEF.

Details

This extraordinary global situation demands a global response. As an answer, the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation, and Sustainable Development and Hackster.io are joining forces with the world’s brightest technology companies. This call for hardware and software developers, product designers, scientists, hackers, makers, and innovators to come together to work for those who will be hardest hit by this pandemic.

The Challenge

The United Nations Development Programme Centre for Technology Innovation and Sustainable Development Announces the COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge. Basically, the UNDP is calling on Hackster’s global community to support developing countries through the sharing and transfer of open source technology. Moreover, this challenge has three priority actions:

Additional Details

As COVID-19 has shown, challenge and crisis cross borders – impacting everywhere on Earth. However, innovation and ingenuity are also not constrained by geography. The COVID-19 Detect and Protect Challenge is an opportunity to find and apply the best and brightest of humanity, wherever it may be found.