Hope Hackathon

Program

Bootcamp
Hope Hackathon

Hope Hackathon empowers the local and global talents amid the unexpected Corona pandemic, the Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology decided to launch an online hackathon to come up with innovation ideas and solutions in three different tracks: eGames, Home Entertainment, and Digital Health. 

goals
Goals
  • Find sustainable solutions that help overcome the current pandemic and any future challenges.
  • Highlight creative and technical talents.
  • Encourage innovation and development in Healthcare, game development, and home entertainment. 
conditions
Conditions
  • To be a technical innovative idea.
  • The idea should be on one of the hackathon tracks.
Hope Hackathon
Target Audience
  • Field experts and aspiring innovators in the respective hackathons tracks.
  • Digital game developers.
  • Apps developers and designers.
Prizes
award
First Place

100,000SAR

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Second Place

85,000SAR

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Third Place

65,000SAR

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Fourth Place

45,000SAR

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Fifth Place

35,000SAR

Tracks
videogames
Video Games

The electronic games track targets amateurs and specialists in building electronic games in the following categories:

  •   Computer games
  •   Internet games
  •   Video games
  •   Mobile phone games
  •   Palm devices games
homeentertainment
Home Entertainment

The home entertainment path targets everything related to community activities in the areas of awareness, effective communication, reducing the impact of the crisis and home quarantine, and raising awareness in the community in the face of epidemics, such as social media applications, or audio content (podcast) in addition to visual content.

digitalhealth
Digital Health

Digital health is the convergence of digital technologies with health in several areas, including (food and medicine, public health, medical devices), whether through applications such as applications that support medical and psychological consultations in addition to awareness-raising in ways to prevent diseases and epidemics and may be small devices such as pedometer bracelets Heart, and other innovations.

Program journey
01
Hackathon Launched and Registration opened
02
Registration closed
03
Initial Results
04
Hackathon Released

FAQ

Every company has questions they regularly get from customers (as well as those really weird ones).

By E-mail: ask@hopehackathon.com

English and Arabic.

No, this is not required.

No, there is no fee. All you have to do is register with us.

No, registration is for each participant is acceptable with one idea.

There will be 3 to 5 hour sessions per day.

Hackathon program launching will be on May 7 and the closing will be on May 13.

If your idea is accepted, you will be sent a guide explaining the tools to be used and how to use them.

When you register as an Ideactor, you are allowed to add 1-4 members as a team member with you.

Yes, attending workshops and counseling sessions is mandatory.