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Take a look at the mentors in data science, business development, design and development who are here to help our hackers build the best possible solutions for our challenges.

What does the perfect hackathon team consist of? For the Hackathon for Good, this is a team of three to five people. When creating your team it is not enough to only look at a person’s skillset, you also have to keep their personality in mind.

The support programme is designed to equip hackers with a range of tools and methods that facilitate the design of their solutions. It encompasses all stages of the design development process, from defining the problem to presenting their ideas.

So you’re interested in being a mentor or jury member? Help us enable the hackers to do good with data and AI. Share your expertise by giving them feedback on their solutions.

We’ll be back! The Hackathon for Good is returning to The Hague next year.

The fifth edition of the Hackathon for Good has a new winner! Teams from all over the world worked for 48 hours straight to tackle today’s biggest challenges related to sustainability, privacy, open government and corruption.

November 25, The Hague. As of today, 130 hackers from 20 nationalities joined the 5th edition of the Hackathon for Good.

Take a look at the mentors in data science, business development, design and development who are here to help our hackers build the best possible solutions for our challenges.

Meet the jury members who will select the winners for each challenge, as well as the overall hackathon winner this year.

Calling all hackers to use their skills for good. Join the Hackathon for Good on November 19-27 and use data and AI to solve real-world problems.

Time to talk about support. What support, you may ask? During the hackathon, we offer a tailored set of steps you can take to create the most convincing and feasible solution. How? Read the article where Svitlana Khrystenko tells all about the design methods you can use to craft your solution and get higher scores during the pitch event.

The Early Bird registration is officially open! Time to build your team and register for the Hackathon for Good. Everyone team who signs up before October 2 will be among the first to choose their hackathon challenge, once available

Hackathon for Good is calling for partners which provide access to technology and datasets during the hackathon.

Hackathon for Good returns to The Hague and opens its call for hackathon challenges. Submit your challenge and get it solved by hundreds of hackers on November 19-27, 2022.

Looking back and forward with our last year’s winners, the New Designers team. Read about their experience and learn their secret of winning the Hackathon for Good.

In discussion with Sasja Heijman, program manager International Talent at Innovation Quarter, the regional economic development agency for the Greater Rotterdam-the Hague region, about the Hackathon for Good.

Last weekend, from 26 to 28 November 2021, the final of the fourth edition of the Hackathon for Good took place, where participants from all over the world developed innovative technological solutions for eight challenges using data.

The challenge they worked on  was combating horizontal fraud and their focus was on the problem of student housing scamming. What was their concept behind? This is what they said.

It’s almost time for the The Hague 4 and we are proud to announce our jury and mentors of the final pitching round!

ESRI is curious how participants of Hackathon for Good are making use of Online Services, Developer APIs and Presentation Tools available via ArcGIS Online and Esri Developer Tools.

Find out more about our Drone Flight Control challenge and what motivated the challenge owner.

Mothership Coder Missions invites you to dive deeper into 3 of the challenges not only by tackling SDGs but also addressing potential vulnerabilities of the landscapes of each problem.

Find out more about our Urban Flood Mitigation challenge and what motivated the challenge owner.

Find out more about our DeepFake Alert challenge and what motivated the challenge owner.

On the 4th of November 2021, the 6th edition of Impact Fest will take place in the city of The Hague,

Find out more about our Open Source Data diodes challenge and what motivated the challenge owner.

This 4th Hackathon for Good - The Hague edition introduces an extended Support programme and our new Hackathon for Good platform.

We are thrilled to announce that the 4th edition of the Hackathon for Good will be fully online once again and excited to have an even bigger international outreach this time around with 9 exciting challenges.

After three successful editions, Fall 2021 will bring the fourth edition of this annual event. Teams from all over the whole world will develop innovative solutions for global social issues, using data.

The jury awarded the second prize of € 1.000- to team Chakra for their open-source solution based on building a single page web application with an intuitive Reach Front end.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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....

Raquel Vazquez Llorente is one the inspiring mentors that will coach the techtalents from all over the world during the #Hackathonforgood. Find out more about her story,

Prof. Dr. Valerie Frissen of ICT and Social Change and Managing Director of the SIDN Fund is one the jurors and shares her story in the run-up to the #Hackathonforgood.

During the weekend of November 17th and 18th 2018, The Hague will be dominated by the #Hackathonforgood.