Kiva Marketplace Hackathon for Programmers and $10,000 Prizes from Devpost
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
Devpost invites programmers and developers all over the world to participate in the Kiva Marketplace Hackathon. Kiva.org is a digital marketplace where individuals can lend as little as $25 to create opportunities for people around the world. In partnership with a global network of local lending institutions, Kiva.org provides loans for more than 3.5 million entrepreneurs and others in need.
Hackathon Problem Statements that can be addressed:
- Borrower reach - How can help our partners reach more borrowers?
- Borrower visibility - How can provide better tools for our partners to showcase borrowers and their stories?
- Credit history - How might we help borrowers build a credit history?
- Fundraising - How might we help our partners efficiently raise additional funds?
- Fund distribution - How might we optimize fund distribution to borrowers?
- Risk management - How might we provide operational support to partners to balance portfolio risk?
- Digital identity - How might our open-source digital identity tools be used to create new opportunities for people around the world?
- Cognitive bias - How might we remove bias from loan selection?
- Borrower connections - How might we build better connections with borrowers?
- Loan impact - How might we show the impact of the loans?
- Lender engagement - How might we provide more engaging experiences to our lenders? How do we connect with new lenders?
Benefits
- First place: $6000
- Second place: $3000
- Third place: $1000
Eligibility criteria
- Hackathons are open to all people regardless of their backgrounds and technical expertise.
- If it contains code, the project must be open source under the following license: Apache 2.0 - https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0
- Include a text description that should explain the features and functionality of your Project.
- Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the submission:
- should be less than three minutes.
- should include footage that shows the functionality of the Project.
- must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, or Youku, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website.
Judging Criteria:
- Impact: Would Kiva be able to make use of this project in a real-world context to achieve its mission of poverty alleviation and financial inclusion?
- Innovation: Does the product introduce an interesting approach or perspective to a particular problem, technical, analytical, or visual?
- Functionality: Does the product function as intended? It is robust and easy to interact with?
- Presentation: Does the design of the product enhance the functionality of the product? Does it communicate its message and intentions clearly?
About Devpost:
Build products, practice skills, learn technologies, win prizes, and grow your network. Hackathons are about learning and having fun. We’ve partnered with great organizations like Oculus, Uber, Evernote, Twitter, Twilio, Venmo, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and more to bring you new opportunities to practice your skills, learn new technologies / APIs, work on interesting problems, and win some amazing prizes.
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