Collaborate with youth from around the world in this competitive hackathon.
Unleash your creativity and explore new technologies to find solutions for social and environmental real-world problems.
Hacks for Humanity is a platform to ideate, design and lead deeply impactful social initiatives that betters our communities through compassion, courage and collaborative leadership.
You don’t need a technical background to participate in Hacks for Humanity. This hackathon is focused on ideating and creating solutions that could include a variety of different approaches. Your solution will be judged on how practical, thoughtful and creative it is.
Connect with like-minded people driven to build, innovate and solve the world’s greatest problems. Are you ready to meet your next friend, mentor, advisor?
Learn what it takes to enact change. Hands-on experience gives you a chance to put your learned knowledge into applied action. Learn from experts on how to think about problems and innovate. Learn from mentors on how to pitch and present.
We’ve prepared an ideal environment for you to succeed and imbibe as much as possible in just one weekend.Â
We have the most passionate youth from around the world congregating to work on the hardest social problems plaguing India and the world.
A youth member that goes through our process will learn how to evaluate an idea, how to pitch, how to present and other skills needed to succeed in business and technology.
As you go through the process of ideation, you will have access to mentors and experts, who have been working in these spaces for decades. You will receive the right guidance on how to come up with practical and executable solutions.
Apply as an individual, to be added to a team, or as a team of upto 5 participants. Select the impact statement that you would like to work on. Application detail are listed below
Come to this event to learn more about the Hacks for Humanity event, ask questions, and learn more!
All teams are highly encouraged to attend this design thinking workshop. Don’t worry, you don’t have to come with an idea! Through the process of this workshop, you and your team will work together to explore the impact statement you have chosen and come to a concrete idea through this special Design Thinking workshop.
Every team will be assigned a mentor. Mentors are industry and field expert who can help guide your team to success. You can get immediate feedback and learn from their expertise.
Submit your concept and idea. You will then recieve feedback about your idea before the Youth Festival commences.
Work on your solution at the Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram in Dharampur. Compete and win!
Last-mile delivery is a major problem in developing countries. During journeys to certain remote areas, medical supplies often get damaged, stranded or lost en route. The COVID-19 crisis highlighted the challenge in reaching rural and isolated communities. How can we make sure that the people who need medicine the most also are able to receive it?
For millions of people across the world, water, a basic human necessity, is dangerous. The World Bank estimates that 21% of all communicable diseases are related to unsafe drinking water. What are ways that we can make sure the people across the world get easy access to clean, safe drinking water?Â
One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally. Meanwhile, 828 million people go hungry everyday and are malnourished. How can we improve the logistics in food transportation, data collection on food consumption, networks for communicating excess and waste, etc? How can we make sure the people who need food the most receive it?Â
Landfill wastes are full of toxins, leachate, and greenhouse gasses (methane, carbon dioxide, etc). The waste we produce is slowly killing our planet and poses a health threat to all those who live and work around landfills. How can we reduce the amount that we waste, replace items in our daily life with biodegradable alternatives, or break down the waste already in landfills?
You can apply as:
For Individuals:
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Do you need a technical solution?
This hackathon is focused on ideating and creating solutions that could include a variety of different approaches. Your solution will be judged on how practical, thoughtful and creative it is.
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You don’t need a technical background to participate in Hacks for Humanity.
Your score will be broken down with these components:
Scope and depth of analysis
Ability to draw valid conclusions from case data and research
Scope and viability of recommendations as it relates to analysis
You have designed your project with compassion in mind, made for the benefit of humanity
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