All challenges

An overview of all challenges that happened during the hackathons

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1 - 3 December 2023

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Past challenges

An overview of all challenges that happend during past hackathons

Detecting AI-generated child sexual abuse material

by UNICRI & United Arab Emirates Ministry of Interior

How ​can ​we ​help ​law enforcement investigators quickly distinguish real child sexual abuse material over AI-generated material ​by providing them with an innovative tool/approach to automatically flag potentially faked or altered materials ​when reviewing and prioritising a vast amount of files, instead of chasing leads that are not going to help real children in need of safeguarding?

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Streamline the sheltered housing process in The Hague

by Gemeente Den Haag

How ​can ​we ​help ​the municipality field workers and housing organizations in The Hague to allocate shelter seekers in better matching locations ​by enabling them to work efficiently within a shared overview ​when taking into consideration the different types of homeless people, the latest city data and the best way to guide them on the journey from daily to (semi-) permanent placement, instead of operating in an urgency state and not utilizing resources to their optimal capacity and purpose?

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Shortage of water professionals in the global south

by Wavemakers United & IHE Delft

Addressing the critical need to increase the capacity of water sector professionals worldwide. Despite the common understanding of this necessity, a solid global dataset depicting the actual demand is lacking, leaving a gap in targeted efforts. Your mission: Help map out the shortage of water sector professionals per sector across the globe. We aim for a comprehensive overview, transcending traditional country or region-based reports.

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Rapid Bias Identification and Correction in AI

by TM Systems

Currently, AI developers face considerable challenges in identifying and rectifying biases in AI datasets. The challenge is to streamline this process, enabling swift and efficient bias mitigation.

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Business Intelligence for Sustainable Flower Production

by LG Flowers & Greenport

Flower entrepreneurs need help making sustainable decisions with data on key changes in internal and external monitoring systems. This includes internal factors, such as company policies, and external risks, such as market fluctuations, energy prices, labour shortage, inflation etc.

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Combat International Corruption using Open Data

by Integrity Initiatives International

Grand corruption is when leaders use their power to benefit themselves. The main challenge in fighting corruption internationally is that information and legal actions are handled per country. Data is not transparent and easily accessible.

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Future of Greenhouse Energy & Heat Efficiency

by Greenport & Provincie Zuid-Holland

The energy transition within the greenhouse sector is a necessary. Their negative impact on the environment is based on their inefficient use of energy and heat. Work on enabling them to make calculated decisions by giving them insights into their options and enabling the greenhouse growers to cooperate.

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Assess The Impact of Governmental Policies Before They Get Introduced

by Gemeente Den Haag

As of now, there is no process of validating new policies and legislation before introducing them. The Municipality of The Hague is looking for ways to assess the impact of new to be introduced, regional policies by identifying the businesses which are affected and analyzing how a proposed policy will impact local entrepreneurs.

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Anonymisation of Sensitive Data on Social Media

by 510: an initiative of the Netherlands Red Cross

During the conflict in Ukraine, a need for fast communication and security became a priority. 510, the Data & Digital team of the Netherlands Red cross, is monitoring the information on group chats to provide help. Anonymisation of data is important to protect vulnerable groups. That’s why potential further improvement of anonymisation of sensitive data is always welcomed by the team.

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