IBM, a global technology company that provides hardware, software, cloud-based services and cognitive computing, is offering $200,000 for any innovative ideas that will combat the novel coronavirus.
The multinational firm in their quest to combat global challenges, is seeking for brave and innovative ideas to attack the two most pressing challenges facing our planet today through the IBM Call for Code 2020.
The world is currently at a standstill grappling with the global coronavirus pandemic, while governments try to manage rising anxiety among citizens, fetching for solutions, technical institutions are crowdsourcing solutions to combat what has currently become the world’s number one common enemy.
The objective is to use open source technology in cloud computing to build solutions that can provide crisis communication, remote education and community corporation.
The IBM Call for Code 2020 requires participants to be innovative, problem solvers and global citizens concerned about current happenings.
Through the collaboration between Hacklab Foundation and IBM, we call on developers and individuals with solutions across the region to register, their interest by visiting ibm.biz/hacklab-dna and submit their open source solutions latest by April 27th, 2020 to be part of the #CallforCode challenge.
About Call For Code
Call for Code is a developer challenge that seeks to inspire developers to create open source technology to create open source technology solutions to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.
This challenge is in partnership with the Hacklab Foundation organizers of the Annual Hacklab Hackathon, West Africa’s largest hackathon.
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