Hack’n’Lead Challenges 2019 announced!
Find out more about the proposed challenges during Hack’n’Lead 2019!
There are 4 challenges proposed for Hack’n’Lead 2019, pick your favorite from:
- How can technology support the education of software engineering skills?
- Future of Financial Crime Discovery
- Combating Modern Slavery in the Supply Chains through Technology
- Create a Game to Educate the World. The Topic? You Decide…
Learn more about the challenges:
How can technology support the education of software engineering skills?
The challenge:
The digital transformation is accelerating with the rapid advance of new technologies like artificial intelligence, extended reality, cloud computing and cloud-native applications, blockchain or new patters to design and develop software. Empowering the Accenture workforce and Universities to learn, use and master those concepts, technologies and frameworks is a priority for Accenture.
Consider how teachers and students can use technology to make these topics more engaging, entertaining or easier to understand with the goal that people learn more and can develop themselves in the domain where their passion is.
Tools
- This challenge is intentionally open for you to choose whatever you and your team’s imagination can come up with.
- If you choose a hardware focussed solution, be sure to bring hardware with you (i.e. VR glasses) and that your team is comfortable working with them
Prerequisites
- The open nature of this challenge makes it suited for anyone, regardless of technical experience; you can design a system or solution or you can create a tool during Hack’n’Lead.
Comments from the submitting team
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, driving innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.
The digital transformation is underway in all aspects of business, and the workforce is no exception. Technology in the workplace affects workers on every level.
Today’s employees can leverage the latest technologies to reinvent existing roles and find new, innovative ways to adapt and thrive in the future. To open the floor for new opportunities and foster a culture of continuous learning, leaders are investing in learning strategies that better prepare workers — and the company — for tomorrow. The most important thing about employees is not where they come from, but how far they can go.
Organizations can draw on a workforce with a constantly evolving set of capabilities to achieve innovation on a grand scale. Join our vision and contribute!
References/Additional Info
Future of Financial Crime Discovery
The challenge:
Imagine how the future of Financial Crime will look in 5–10 years and step into the shoes of the data analysts. Financial criminals are getting smarter and we need to get even smarter and faster in an age of unlimited data and powerful analytics. You will have an opportunity to solve a real life challenge in the fraud and money laundering area. You can focus on finding new and innovative ways of analyzing and monitoring transactions for suspicious activity or perhaps approach the challenge from a different angle to uncover trends and patterns in the underlying data. You can take advantage of omnipresent mobile technology, connected with social media and envision a synergy with existing data providing systems.
Tools
Our project is strongly related to data science. We can utilize existing open source and available tools. The best option is a Jupyter Notebook. Beside that we can explore usage of alternative tools: Apache Zeppelin, … and if possible commercial products only for this event: RStudio, PyCharm. Crucial skill would be also knowledge of existing Python data science libraries like: NumPy, PyTorch, PANDAS, SciKit etc.
Comments from the submitting team
With this challenge, we would like to promote Credit Suisse as an employer which is supporting equality and is interesting and innovative as a company to work for. Besides increasing PR, Visibility and Marketing we hope to find talented people. Input data, which will be used, will come either from our Testing Environment with additional anonymization or generated based on various heuristics. We would be happy to provide data science and Anti-Money Laundering workshops presenting topic’s general picture and used tools / libraries. From our side, we will be looking not only at the provided solution but also take under consideration diversity, how well team would potentially follow up on the project and any new unique ways of approaching a problem.
Combating Modern Slavery in the Supply Chains through Technology
The challenge:
There are more people enslaved now than at any other time in human history. Stakeholders worldwide increasingly recognize the risk of modern slavery practices being present in the supply chains that feed and drive Western economies.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation contributes to the fight against modern slavery with programs such as the Banks Alliance and the Stop Slavery Award. The Banks Alliance work-groups map the financial footprint of human trafficking in the formal banking system and develop red flag indicators of suspicious activity. The Stop Slavery Award recognizes companies dedicated to limit the risk of slavery in their supply chain and operations.
Technology can play a major role in preventing and disrupting human trafficking and in empowering survivors. AI, application development, and (big) data can play a vital role in tackling this crime.
We invite you to join us on a journey to explore HOW TO COMBAT MODERN SLAVERY IN THE SUPPLY CHAINS using innovative and conscious technological solutions.
You can consider one or more of the following questions:
- How can we detect human trafficking in the supply chain?
- How can we improve data collection and management across multiple resources to identify slavery in the supply chain?
- How can we educate and involve local communities in the fight against modern slavery?
Tools
We are open regarding the suggested solutions. They can range from prototyping a web application, to the creation of insightful data visualizations or the presentation of interesting data analyses. Impress us with your creativity!
Commonly used data science tools include:
- Python: pandas, numpy, sklearn, matplotlib, plotly, flask
- R: ggplot2, caret, shiny
- Others: d3.js (visualisations)
If you need inspiration, check out some existing tech tools to combat human trafficking: https://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blog-view/tech-companies-tools-to-fight-human-trafficking
You will have access to a list of resources, public data and thematic advisory from Thomson Reuters Foundation’s leading experts to make your first steps in tackling this global challenge. In addition to that, you will be able to access the Reuters Connect API, which allows you to source news articles. Reach out to one of our mentors to show you how to use it.
Datasets
- Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index: https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/about/the-index/
[go to Resources > Downloads to download the Global Slavery Index 2018 Dataset] - The counter trafficking data collaborative: https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org
[data download available] - List of goods produces by child labor or forced labor: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods
- Human trafficking data — platform for human trafficking cases
http://www.humantraffickingdata.org/ - Target 8.7 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: https://delta87.org/
[data can be found under Data & Measurement] - HowGood (research company with the largest database on food and personal care product sustainability in the industry): https://howgood.com/#/
Prerequisites
The open nature of this challenge makes it suitable for participants with no prior knowledge as well as those coming from a data science background.
Comments from the submitting team
Technology has the potential to transform our world. We are passionate about harnessing the power of technology to drive positive social change. More than 40 million people worldwide are victims of modern slavery today. The Thomson Reuters Foundation raises awareness of this complex problem which continues to harm people everywhere in the world.
Hack’n’Lead is an ideal place to bring together teams of creative technologists with diverse skillsets to combat this urgent global priority. Join us in the effort to eradicate modern slavery using innovative and conscious technological solutions. Think big — be the change!
References/Additional Info
Background reading
• Thomson Reuters Foundation — Modern Slavery
https://www.trust.org/thought-leadership/modern-slavery/
• What is modern slavery?
https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/modern-slavery/
• Modern slavery in supply chains
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/07/19/supply-chains-based-on-modern-slavery-may-reach-into-the-west
• The Responsible Business Initiative — Initiative to protect human rights in Switzerland
https://corporatejustice.ch
• Stop the Traffik — Preventing human trafficking through innovative intelligence-led approach
https://www.stopthetraffik.org/
• Unchain — Transparency in the global supply chains
http://unchain.org/
• What are companies doing to eradicate modern slavery from their supply chains?
https://www.modernslaveryregistry.org/
Reports
• US Trafficking in Persons Report
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-Trafficking-in-Persons-Report.pdf
• Business insights on modern slavery in supply chains
https://share.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Cdn-Business-Insights-on-Modern-Slavery-in-supply-chains_final2.pdf
- Eliminating modern slavery in complex supply chains
https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/content/dam/ewp-m/documents/tax/en/pdf/reports/tr-modern-slavery-report.pdf
Create a Game to Educate the World. The Topic? You Decide…
The challenge:
We have a big board. It is not us bragging, it is just true. It takes a lot of great minds from all over the globe and all walks of life to challenge an entire industry to change. But, dear participants, it also takes you. You coming here tells us that what we believe is right and companies sponsoring us tell us that there are places out there that want to disrupt the norm and make tech a field open to everyone.
Tools
- Scratch — Imagine, Program, Share — New to Tech? Start simple with this interactive programming to make games visually
- GitHub — photonstorm/phaser: Phaser is a fun, free and fast… — Web Devs? Get started with Phaser in a few short minutes
- GitHub — WhitestormJS/whs.js: 🌪 Super-fast 3D framework… — More Javascript frameworks but for 3D games!
- Unity Real-Time Development Platform | 3D, 2D VR & AR Visualizations — For those of you wanting to dabble in VR or make a console/PC game… C# and/or Javascript is good here.
- GitHub — pallets/click: Python composable command line interface toolkit — Not all games need to be visual…
Have some knowledge but not sure what to use? Ask a helper!
Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites, your imagination is your limit here. BUT (and there is always a but), be careful what you choose.
- Unity is really best for people that have some prior experience with it
- Zero coding knowledge means that you should choose your teammates carefully and apply the skills you want. I.e. Choose a web game if you can design.
Comments from the submitting team
We may be able to use our immense brains to figure out what workshops to hold, teach new topics, engage with companies, order pizza but…we could not decide on a challenge. So, we leave it open BUT we each give you some inspiration directly from our minds to yours.
→ Di
“Some people need help. Some people want to help. I believe that many people are willing or looking to help others, but often fear committing long hours, planning too long ahead or investing money and help for the little, daily things goes a long way.
Often when in need for help for trivial actions, we fear bothering others (while they are looking at their phones or reading) or approaching them. How cool would it be, if I could “announce” that I need help going down the stairs at the HB, taking train xyz or going from platform x to platform y or getting on the train and people who are doing the same commute or waiting for the train get a notification and can help right there?”
→ Luisa
“ If it was me, I would create a game about dogs. That’s why I am not creating a game. But if I was, how can we help owners train their dogs based on the dog’s race. People have no idea about their dogs, they are not just cute! “.
→ Patricia
“I’d suggest a game to teach people about cyber forensics (or cyber security in general)”
→ Agustina
“Because we can have fun while contributing with our grain of sand to change the world. “
→ Mae
“Did you know that “lohikäärme” is the word for Dragon in Finnish? It literally means “Salmon snake”! I’d like to play a game where I learn about different cultures around the world. Make me travel through fun facts!”
→ Marta
“Do you know how many types of plastic exist and how to recycle each of them? Do you know how many possibles techniques there are to generate energy? Do you know …?, ok got it I am asking too many questions, but there is a fun way to learn all of this. Just play a game about waste recycling or energy production or any other topic can be very useful in your daily life but it is too technical and so too boring .”
→ Mathias
“There are two skills make up the superpowers of tomorrow in my opinion: social and technical. If you can move machines or if you can move people, you can change the world. A game teaching either of those subjects would be incredible. Or Spiderman. Love Spiderman”.
→ Marina
“It would be great to turn boring things in our daily lives into a game and save the planet at the same time. In my case, I’m not very good at gardening and my domestic plants keep dying. It would be great to have a game that will teach me how to do gardening and will save my plants. Image recognition can be useful in this case, I can then provide you with a few photos of dying ones for training.”
→ Chris
“Kids today play too many games with their fortnites and their pokemon kart. And us adults worry about it. Well, we worry about everything. How we are all going to drown from rising sea levels, how capitalism is destroying the west. Remember the good old days when water was dirty and having the flu meant dying? Make a game to help us put the crap we hear daily in perspective. Are things really as bad as they say?”
References/Additional Info
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