IEEE Hackathon Latincom (Humanitarian edition)

Latin American countries are continuously facing diverse challenges in this century. LATINCOM 2020 will have space where students and Young Professionals will give ideas to work on local problems in their countries with the help of their knowledge and skills in any Telecommunication fields. They will learn best practices on how to prepare their proposal and related topics on project design.

We want Latin America students and Young Professionals to be encouraged and apply for the next edition of the IEEE ComSoc Student Competition in 2021. Best project ideas will be awarded in this Hackathon in order they can be the first step on the implementation and application of their projects in the ComSoc Competition. Ideas do not need to be already implemented but must be realistic projects that can be done in practice.

Awards

The best solution ideas will be awarded to recognize the academic and professional skills of the participants. The 3 best projects will be awarded with the following reward to team members:

1st position: US$ 500 and certificate
2nd position: US$ 300 and certificate
3rd position: US$ 200 and certificate

Competition topics

All projects must address technical and humanitarian issues:

1. Technician:

Topics in communication fields applying any theme from the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committees or Emerging Technical Initiatives. The list and description of these committees are available in the following link:
https://www.comsoc.org/about/committees

2. Humanitarian challenges:

Any problem that a local community has is eligible. Also, the solution may be related to any of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that the United Nations has adopted for its action plan by 2030:

https://sdgs.un.org/goals

https://www.itu.int/en/myitu/News/2020/10/07/16/34/New-ITU-Global-Portal-on-Environment-and-Smart-Sustainable-Cities

Template for competition presentations

• Each team must submit a video presentation (3 min) with project expiation according ppt template.
• The presentation can be in Spanish or in Portuguese. However, slide text must be in English.
• The video must be sent as a YouTube link together with slide presentation in ppt or pptx format according template.
• Send the video and the presentation with the Subject: [Hackathon Latincom] Video and presentation team [Team name]

Event

Project presentations will take place during IEEE LATINCOM 2020. The time for each team presentation will be defined soon.

Date: November 20, 2020

Evaluation criteria

● Originality
● Creativity in the application of technology in telecommunications
● Social impact on humanity or local community
● Quality of presentation
● Possible application in other parts of the world

Competition teams