The Hackathon for Good - The Hague 2020 was won by team Bootleg Hackers with a solution to report environmental crimes by creating a platform that cultivates a community and empowers them to take collective actions against environmental crimes. In the first place, team Bootleg Hackers won a cash prize of € 2.500 -

During the Hackathon for Good The Hague, 18 teams worldwide worked on four different challenges. More than 100 tech talents, business pioneers, and entrepreneurial changemakers worked on developing innovative data solutions for problems focused on shared mobility, environmental crimes, accessible jurisdiction & transparency of the law, and jurisprudence.

Winners Hackathon for Good The Hague 2020

The first prize was won by team Bootleg Hackers, who worked on the environmental crime challenge by the Dutch Police. They created a platform that cultivates a community and empowers them to take collective actions against environmental crimes. Environmental crimes are hard to detect due to the lack of data and can also lead to helplessness among the citizens.

The second prize went to team Chakra for their open-source solution based on building a single page web application with an intuitive Reach Front end. The jury was very impressed by the technical solution, the focus on end-users, and the solution’s scalability.

The challenges we face today are increasingly complex and interlinked, requiring a collaborative and data-driven approach to resolving them. The Hackathon for Good connects non-profits, governments, start-ups, corporates, and talent worldwide to develop resilient solutions for a more peaceful, just, and secure world.

Hackathon for Good started in The Hague with the mission to connect AI and Data to the world of Humanitarian Development and Aid. After two successful editions by Data Science Initiative, we slightly broaden our scope with more topics, partners, and the first international editions. But every edition always has a touch of ethics & data.

The Hackathon for Good The Hague 2020  is made possible by the following partners:

The Hackathon for Good - The Hague 2020 was won by team Bootleg Hackers with a solution to report environmental crimes by creating a platform that cultivates a community and empowers them to take collective actions against environmental crimes. In the first place, team Bootleg Hackers won a cash prize of € 2.500 ,-

Bootleg Hackers wins 'Hackathon for Good The Hague 2020' with a solution to report environmental crimes

Twenty-one teams of business pioneers, tech talents & experts in artificial intelligence, big data, and coding are challenged to develop data solutions for a better world. They will work on challenges by the Municipality of The Hague, the Police, EVE & The Hague Legal Tech Alliance.

We are looking forward to learning what solutions the teams will develop for these challenges. But there can only be one team that receives the prize of € 2.500- euros. To make this decision, a jury of experts in their field is composed.

Meet the jury of Hackathon for Good - The Hague

Twenty-one teams of business pioneers, tech talents & experts in artificial intelligence, big data, and coding are challenged to develop data solutions for a better world. They will work on challenges by the Municipality of The Hague, the Police, EVE & The Hague Legal Tech Alliance.

We are looking forward to learning what solutions the teams will develop for these challenges. But there can only be one team that receives the prize of € 2.500- euros. To make this decision, a jury of experts in their field is composed.


Introducing the jury of Hackathon for Good - The Hague

Marija Slavkovik shares her knowledge of AI & Ethics during the opening of Hackathon for Good - The Hague

This Friday marks the start of the 48-hour Hackathon as part of the third edition of the Hackathon for Good. We are very excited that Marija Slavkovik will share her knowledge of AI & ethics with our participants during our opening ceremony.

Marija is an Associate professor with the Faculty for Social Sciences of the University of Bergen. She is a computer scientist who researches AI. She publishes in collective reasoning and decision making.

Marija Slavkovik has been researching machine ethics since 2012. Machine ethics studies show how moral reasoning can be automated. Marija works on formalizing collective ethical decision-making. She has held several seminars, tutorials, and graduate courses on AI ethics. More information about this can be found on 

Marija is interested in the phenomenon of autonomous systems increasingly becoming moral arbitrators by virtue of the dissipation of the machine-society segregation. Automation, particularly of cognition, is not always possible without automating aspects of ethical reasoning or values. The problem then is whose moral values should have standing, what honest opinions and values should be elicited, how should that be done, and what is the right way to aggregate these ‘’measurements’’?

Marija Slavkovik shares her knowledge of AI & Ethics

Currently, shared scooters, bikes, and cars from providers such as Felyx, Cargoroo, and Greenwheels appear more often on the streets of The Hague. Shared mobility is considered an important part of the future of mobility in the cities. It saves space, helps reduce the emission, and it is sustainable. The city of The Hague is promoting the use of shared mobility for a cleaner, healthier, and more livable city. But does shared mobility have the expected impact on the city? Will car-owners change their private cars for shared cars? How much does shared mobility contribute to the CO2 reduction in the city? The city of The Hague is now facing challenges in obtaining the data and information to answer these questions.

The Municipality of The Hague wants to find the answers to these questions. After the launch of the permit system earlier this year, they continue with further developing shared mobility in the city. By allowing everyone with relevant knowledge, skills, and means to participate, the city of The Hague becomes inspired and gains new insights on how to solve this challenge. Young and international talent outside the Municipality of The Hague’s network can get acquainted with shared mobility and view this challenge from a different perspective. This new perspective can lead to fresh ideas and potentially reaching a unique and dynamic market.

The solutions that participants create during the 48-hour program of the Hackathon for Good give the Municipality of The Hague more insights into the possibilities. Shared mobility isn’t done developing, and if one of the solutions is a good fit, The Hague is willing to continue working on this solution.

We are looking forward to seeing the teams develop innovative solutions for this challenge and how shared mobility will develop further.

During Hackathon for Good - The Hague, November 27 -29, participants will build innovative data-solutions for the challenge of the Municipality of The Hague. We invited all business pioneers, tech talent, and entrepreneurial change-makers to join us and make an impact for good. 

Shared mobility in The Hague

During the weekend of 27, 28, and 29 November the third edition of the Hackathon for Good takes place. This edition is the first edition that is completely online. Business pioneers, tech talents & experts in artificial intelligence, big data and coding are challenged to develop data solutions for a better world. They will work on challenges by Municipality of The Hague, the Police, EVE & The Hague Legal Tech Alliance.

The Hackathon for Good - The Hague is hosted by the Municipality of The Hague and organized by The Hague Tech, in close collaboration with the Hague innovation ecosystems consisting of the hubs: The Hague Security Delta, The Hague Humanity Hub, and the programs YES! Delft, WorldStartup, Data Science Initiative, and Digital Competence & Education Center. During the weekend of 27, 28, and 29 November, talent from all over the world develop innovative solutions for global social issues. Each team works on a data solution for one of the participating organizations. The total prize money is € 3,500.

The following challenges will be worked on during the hackathon:

 Shared mobility is considered the future of urban mobility. It saves space, helps reduce emissions, and is sustainable. The Municipality of The Hague stimulates the use of shared mobility for a cleaner and healthier city. But does shared mobility have the expected impact on the city? Will car owners exchange their private car for shared cars? How much does shared mobility contribute to CO2 reduction in the city? Does bicycle-sharing replace the use of public transport, or does it generate new journeys? The city now faces the challenge of obtaining the data and information to answer these questions.

 Environmental crime is on the rise and is now widely recognized as one of the largest criminal areas in the world. To combat environmental crimes effectively, they must first be easier to detect. Not only law enforcement officers, but especially citizens, need to know what is happening in their backyard. Citizens need to know what to watch out for and when to call the authorities. What this requires is a system that can process all kinds of different data from different sensors, cluster the resources, determine what is expected within a cluster, and then detect anomalies within a cluster. Subsequently, subscribers in a specific area should receive a warning about the anomaly, including a particular context so that the citizen knows what to look for and information about when to contact which government agency. The challenge is to create something more user-friendly and natural that evokes a call to action that is relevant to the user.

 A good legal system is essential for the proper functioning of an economy. EVE's mission is to give everyone access to a court of law. Eve is faced with several problems that she challenges participants to solve. It is striking that many entrepreneurs in legal disputes are looking for free or affordable legal advice about their position. With Eve you don't need a lawyer, but people hardly dare to go to Eve's court without advice about their legal position. The resources currently available are clearly inadequate. The challenge is: Design a tool with which every citizen can determine their legal position in a conflict. In any case, this tool should be free and simple. The tool should not depend on or be influenced by commercial elements.

 The Hague Legal Tech Alliance (THLTA) is an initiative of the Municipality of The Hague and Pels Rijcken. THLTA is convinced that technology can contribute to the transparency of the law and case law, without undermining the protection of privacy, for example through the use of automatic cleaning programs. THLTA is challenging participants in this year's Hackathon for Good to create mock-ups of technology applications that contribute to document generation. The transparency and privacy requirements of these documents should be taken into account and fulfilled directly through the application. In addition, the mock-ups must contain or contain automatic cleaning properties. THLTA also hopes that the participants in this Hackathon will gain more insight into (future) possibilities to facilitate the traditional legal institutions in The Hague to also make the step towards a digital society in other areas.

The Hackathon for Good contributes to finding up-and-coming talent, stimulating access to relevant data, supporting progressive startups, expanding the (inter) national network, arranging inspiring meetings and creating new innovative and technological solutions for urgent challenges with a global impact.

Register now as an individual or as a team.

International tech talent hacks for a better world.

The 'Hackathon for good The Hague 2018' in The Hague was won by team Monkey Code with a solution to prevent land grabbing by combining satellite data with recent social media data. During the Hackathon for good, 27 teams of more than 22 nationalities worked on the development of innovative data solutions for problems focused on humanitarian disasters (Red Cross), fake news (NCIA), evidence (ICC), emergency funds (World Vision) and land grabbing (Asser Institute).

More than 120 tech talents from the Netherlands and abroad participated in the Hackathon for good this weekend. The jury chose Monkey Code as the winner because the team followed all the way through to find a solution for end uses in communities. Interesting was also the clever use of social media as part of their solution. In first place, team Monkey Code won a cash prize of € 10,000,-. The hackathon is one of the first projects of the Data Science Initiative, an initiative of tech entrepreneurs, universities, government and knowledge institutions in The Hague that are committed to peace, justice and security through big data and Artificial Intelligence: Tech for good.

Saskia Bruines, alderman Education, Knowledge Economy, International: "This hackathon is a good example of what we want to convey as the city of peace and justice. Working together with tech entrepreneurs, universities and knowledge institutions on solutions for global problems. It is a special event that I hope we can organize even more in the future!"

Winners Hackathon for good
The first prize was won by team Monkey Code with their open source solution based on combining satellite data with recent social media data (e.g. relevant Twitter hashtags) to predict areas that are vulnerable for land grabbing. According to the jury, the challenge required redefining and selecting the right information sources first. This team worked on the Asser Institute challenge: how to prevent land grabbing.

The second prize went to team Hack4Peace with a solution for the NATO/NCIA challenge how to detect fake news. This teams’ tool involves building a data set with inflammatory texts and images. Through AI based imagery and textual analysis, the tool can recognize propaganda and fake news. Part of the solution is an end user browser extension that detects and filters propaganda, meanwhile collecting new data to sharpen and scale the algorithm. The jury was very impressed by the technical solution, the focus on end users and scalability.

The third prize was won by team PWC2 with their solution for the Red Cross/510 challenge: how to estimate damage in disaster areas. PWC2’s approach was based on combining drone and satellite imagery to come to automated, yet very precise damage estimation, ideal for prioritizing aid. The jury praised the accuracy and speed of damage estimation, as well as the practical approach that can be implemented immediately.

The Hackathon
The Hackathon for Good is an initiative of the Municipality of The Hague and the Data Science Initiative, it is made possible by the following partners:

Al Lab, Xprize, The Hague Tech, GSMA, AI for good The Netherlands, Breezi Speaking, UNICRI, Hack the Planet, The Hague Humanity Hub, ImpactCity, HumanityX, Quaestio, Red Cross, NCIA, ICC, World Vison, Asser Institute.

It's a Unix system, I know this! Must go faster! I hate this hacker crap! The only one I've got on my side is the blood-sucking lawyer. Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. Why didn't I build it in Orlando? Uh uh uh!...You didn't say the magic word! Look at all the blood. I hate this hacker crap! Ian, freeze!

The 'Hackathon for good The Hague 2018' in The Hague was won by team Monkey Code with a solution to prevent land grabbing by combining satellite data with recent social media data. During the Hackathon for good, 27 teams of more than 22 nationalities worked on the development of innovative data solutions for problems focused on humanitarian disasters (Red Cross), fake news (NCIA), evidence (ICC), emergency funds (World Vision) and land grabbing (Asser Institute).

More than 120 tech talents from the Netherlands and abroad participated in the Hackathon for good this weekend. The jury chose Monkey Code as the winner because the team followed all the way through to find a solution for end uses in communities. Interesting was also the clever use of social media as part of their solution. In first place, team Monkey Code won a cash prize of € 10,000,-. The hackathon is one of the first projects of the Data Science Initiative, an initiative of tech entrepreneurs, universities, government and knowledge institutions in The Hague that are committed to peace, justice and security through big data and Artificial Intelligence: Tech for good.

Saskia Bruines, alderman Education, Knowledge Economy, International: "This hackathon is a good example of what we want to convey as the city of peace and justice. Working together with tech entrepreneurs, universities and knowledge institutions on solutions for global problems. It is a special event that I hope we can organize even more in the future!"

Winners Hackathon for good
The first prize was won by team Monkey Code with their open source solution based on combining satellite data with recent social media data (e.g. relevant Twitter hashtags) to predict areas that are vulnerable for land grabbing. According to the jury, the challenge required redefining and selecting the right information sources first. This team worked on the Asser Institute challenge: how to prevent land grabbing.

The second prize went to team Hack4Peace with a solution for the NATO/NCIA challenge how to detect fake news. This teams’ tool involves building a data set with inflammatory texts and images. Through AI based imagery and textual analysis, the tool can recognize propaganda and fake news. Part of the solution is an end user browser extension that detects and filters propaganda, meanwhile collecting new data to sharpen and scale the algorithm. The jury was very impressed by the technical solution, the focus on end users and scalability.

The third prize was won by team PWC2 with their solution for the Red Cross/510 challenge: how to estimate damage in disaster areas. PWC2’s approach was based on combining drone and satellite imagery to come to automated, yet very precise damage estimation, ideal for prioritizing aid. The jury praised the accuracy and speed of damage estimation, as well as the practical approach that can be implemented immediately.

The Hackathon
The Hackathon for Good is an initiative of the Municipality of The Hague and the Data Science Initiative, it is made possible by the following partners:

Al Lab, Xprize, The Hague Tech, GSMA, AI for good The Netherlands, Breezi Speaking, UNICRI, Hack the Planet, The Hague Humanity Hub, ImpactCity, HumanityX, Quaestio, Red Cross, NCIA, ICC, World Vison, Asser Institute.

Monkey Code wins 'Hackathon for good The Hague 2018' with solution to prevent land grabbing

Are you an entrepreneurial changemaker and ready to make an impact for good? Apply now and work on challenges from the Municipality of the Hague, the Police, EVE & The Hague Legal Tech Alliance.

During the weekend of 27, 28 and 29 November the third edition of the Hackathon for Good will take place. This edition will be the first online edition. The Hackathon for Good 2020 is hosted by the city of The Hague and organised by The Hague Tech, in close collaboration with the Hague’s innovation ecosystems consisting of the hubs The Hague Security Delta, The Hague Humanity Hub and the programs Yes! Delft, WorldStartup, Data Science Initiative and Digital Competence & Education Center. Because of its willingness to work with its social partners on urgent challenges the world faces, the Municipality of The Hague is hosting the Hackathon for Good 2020. The Hague believes that technology and innovation can contribute to positive changes in the world.

The aim of this hackathon is to prototype data-driven solutions for societal problems. For Good means that the solutions we aim for are beneficial for society. Challenge owners want to cocreate these solutions. The work after the hackathon could lead to commercial products and services, but the results of the hackathon are preferably open source and actively shared.

Certainly. Good teams represent a variety of skills and experiences. Business development, UX design, marketing are just as useful as data science and coding. If you sign up as an individual, we will help you join or set up a team.

3 days or 48 hours. We start on Friday the 27th of November at 4PM and will announce the winner on Sunday at 4PM. The supporting programme began on November 2nd, but everyone will get access to the training material and exercises after registration and selection.

Are the results of the hackathon open source?

Yes, they are, unless explicitly communicated differently.

Should we pitch our idea to a jury and if so how?

It’s not a shark tank, but there will be a jury with a variety of experts. We have two pitching rounds. The first round is with the challenge owners and you will compete with other teams working on the same challenge. The second and final round will be run to determine the winner and runner up.

If I win, can I give my price to charity and if so, do you have a good tip?

You are free to do what you like with your price. There is no need to invest it in the follow up of the prototype, although we do stimulate people to try to take the next step. If you decide to go from “for good” to “feel good”, our charity of choice would be https://www.rainforesttrust.org/.

I am quite competitive and like to win, what are the criteria of the jury?

Creativity, Feasibility, Problem/Solution fit, Presentation & Mastering technology. So a well presented, out of the box solution, with beautiful code and instant satisfaction for the problem owner, after just a couple of more tweaks, will have a very good chance to win.

Does your organization want to bring in a current issue as a challenge owner?  We would  like to tell you more about your potential part in this journey to make an impact for good.

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During the Hackathon for Good several online co-creation challenges and trainings will take place. Find out what activities are happening when by checking out the programme.

Bootleg Hackers

The challenges we face today are increasingly complex and interlinked, requiring a collaborative and data driven approach to resolving them. The Hackathon for Good connects non-profits, governments, start-ups, corporates, and talent from around the world to develop resilient solutions for a more peaceful, just and secure world. Driven by the diverse Hague-based ecosystems, through a 3-month programme, we take on the challenge to develop human-centered, (cyber)secure and innovative solutions to real world problems. We invite all entrepreneurial changemakers to join us on this journey to create impact for good.

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Hackathon for Good started in The Hague with the mission to connect AI and Data to the world of Humanitarian Development and Aid. After two successful editions by Data Science Initiative, we slightly broaden our scope with more topics, more partners, and the first international editions coming up. But every edition always has a touch of ethics & data.

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