In partnership with the Manhattan DA's office, join us to code for a cause. Our event has two verticals: labor trafficking and sex trafficking. We provide data sets, APIs, mentors, food, and bandwidth, so you can make an impact in a weekend.
Trafficking in persons, human trafficking,and modern slavery have been used as umbrella terms for the act of recruiting harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. $150 Billion dollars in illicit profits are made each year by forced labor in the private economy. [ILO 2014] These billions flood the formal market, corrupt the global economy, and taint purchases made by unwitting customers. Long and complex supply chains that cross multiple borders make it challenging to verify that goods and services sold every day are untouched by moder-day slaves.
Our hackathon starts with education and inspiration via a conference exclusively for hackathon participants! From 11am-4pm hear from the Manhattan DA, Service providers, survivors, and the builders behind anti-trafficking software and technology. Immediately following we go to Cornell Tech in Chelsea to start team formation and the hackathon. Below is a video of a past hackathon of ours, the topic was health tech.Eligibility
Any current student, regardless of degree, major, grad date, or experience. The best teams with the most sustainable solutions are made up of members with diverse backgrounds. This is truly hackathon for business, psychology, marketing, HR, policy, government majors as well as developers and data scientists.
Requirements
Hackers should build a viable solution that in some way aids towards ending human trafficking. Wether that be identifying victims or vulnerable population, helping law enforcement determine when a person is a trafficking victim (very often cases come in as domestic violence and victims do not name their attackers as their pimp), linking missing persons to trafficking, raising red flags in digital transactions that may be trafficking, creating more effective communication between law enforcement agencies, there are many areas in which hackers can make an impact with technology.
Prizes
Tickets to Entrepreneurship Summit
All students on winning teams will get free tickets to the Entreprneurship Summit on November 4 at The Times Center in NYC.
Conference website: http://summit.eship.cornell.edu/2016/
All hackathon participants get t-shirts,mug, tumbler, stickers, swag, good karma, and an unforgettable weekend experience.
Devpost Achievements
Submitting to this hackathon could earn you:
How to enter
To participate in our hackathon you must apply in advance at: https://ehthackathon.splashthat.com
We need several days advance notice to get building clearance for attendees w/DAs office and Google building.
Judges
Rob Spectre
Twilio
TBA
DARPA/Memex
TBA
Manhattan DA Office
Judging Criteria
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Viability
How viable is the solution proposed.
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