Who can participate?

• This challenge is open to the general public and any organization. We welcome the participation of individuals and teams of computer and data scientists, graphic designers and all others interested.
• Teams can submit by acknowledging all contributors using the co-author field on the submissions form.
• Participants can submit as many solutions to this challenge as they would like.

Submission guidelines

This challenge is open to the general public. Public, private, and academic organizations are also invited to take part.

• Participants should submit the final challenge submissions clicking here.
• Teams can submit by acknowledging all contributors under the “description” field on the submissions form.
• There are no limitations on the number of submissions per participant / participating team.
• The participants are required to agree to the terms and conditions.

• For the "Free Open Source Software" category: Only original, open source work will be accepted. It is acceptable that your solution uses other existing open source libraries.
• For the"Proprietary Software" category: If your solution uses proprietary software, it will be automatically considered for this category.

Review criteria

Entries will be judged on a combination of the following criteria:

• Alignment with challenge objectives
• Sound data analysis and accuracy of results
• Originality
• Clarity of information
• Use friendliness
• Technical qualities of the system

Judging Panel

All solutions will be reviewed by a committee composed of IT specialists and sustainable development experts.   

Solution terms and conditions

"Free Open Source Software" category

When you submit a solution to this challenge you agree to license it as follows:
Infographics and databases are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Read the full text of the license here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Software (e.g. dynamic visualizations) is licensed under a GNU General Public License Version 3 as published by the Free Software Foundation here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html or another license approved by the Open Source Initiative listed here.

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to grant the above license and that the content submitted by you and the submission of such content, do not and will not violate any intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyrights and trademark rights) of any third party.

"Proprietary Software" category

You represent and warrant that you have all necessary rights, licenses, and permissions to submit this content and that the content submitted by you and the submission of such content, do not and will not violate any intellectual property rights (including but not limited to copyrights and trademark rights) of any third party.

For any questions regarding the challenge, please contact the Unite Ideas team at uniteideas@un.org