Le Global Challenge Call for Code 2022 est lancé

2 mai 2022

On April 26, David Clark Cause, who is spearheading the Call for Code in partnership with IBM, the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, and the Linux Foundation, announced the launch of the Global Challenge Call for Code 2022. Since its inception in 2018, more than 500,000 developers, students, startups, and NGOs from 180 countries have responded to the call and designed cutting-edge hybrid cloud and AI solutions powered by open source to solve major global societal challenges. So solutions can already be submitted on BeMyApp, the winner of the Global Challenge Grand Prize will receive $200,000, IBM and its partners will help with the implementation of their solution.

Philanthropist David Clark created the David Clark Cause, which is behind the Call for Code. For the 2021 edition, the Saaf Water project proposed by an Indian team, which tackled the problem of clean water, won the Global Challenge. The winner of the University Challenge was TRASHTAG, a project by a French team from ISEP, designed around blockchain and artificial intelligence to fight against the uncontrolled pollution of the oceans and natural environments while providing financial resources to the most fragile populations.

The Call for Code 2022 edition

When registering on the Global Challenge website hosted by BeMyApp, participants to this new challenge will be able to choose among the sustainable development issues they want to tackle, form a team and develop a project.

During the Challenge Accelerator events, experts will help them identify the problems to be solved and accelerate their projects. Toolkits, APIs and proprietary data from The Weather Company and other IBM partners such as Arrow Electronics, EY, Ingram Micro, Intuit, New Relic and Persistent Systems will be available for research.

IBM’s open source software such as Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud, IBM Watson, IBM LinuxOne Cloud Community from IBM Systems z and IBM Blockchain, as well as IBM’s The Weather Company APIs will be available for use.

Ruth Davis, director of Call for Code, IBM, states:

“Technology is the catalyst for scaling solutions to global problems – from climate change to humanitarian issues, and even global pandemic. IBM with Call for Code and its ecosystem partners are committed to addressing the complex challenge of sustainability and encouraging problem solvers around the world to participate.”

The Call for Code 2022 Challenges

Participants in the 2022 edition must address the following challenges:

Improve the ability to measure, analyze, or take decisive action on carbon emissions;
Improve access to affordable and reliable clean energy;
Improving supply chain transparency and traceability to provide quick and accurate visibility to sustainability issues where they occur;
Solve water scarcity and quality issues;
Reduce the volume and demand for materials that create the largest waste footprint (plastics, electronics, food, textiles) and encourage reuse and recycling opportunities;
Build effective and efficient ways to promote, preserve and protect biodiversity in a quantifiable way;
Reduce global food insecurity through, for example, improvements in distribution or sustainable agricultural practices;
Remove barriers to equal access to education and employment opportunities to promote environmental justice.