Public Integrity Hackathon: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), with the support of the European Commission and in cooperation with the General Secretariat for the Fight against Corruption (G.G.K.A.D.), the Harokopion University and the Open Technologies Organization (EELLAK), are organizing the Public Integrity Hackathon on April 1 & 2, 2017.
The Hackathon will be held at the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University and is aimed at students, academics-researchers, start-up companies, programmers, researchers as well as anyone else interested in themeanti-corruption and public awareness.
The main goal of Public Integrity Hackathon is to create and develop innovative digital applications (for the internet, computers, mobile phones) to raise public awareness of prevention and zero tolerance of corruption. Generally, corruption "is the misuse of delegated authority for personal gain".
Public Integrity Hackathon: It's one Intensive martial arts competition for ideas and programming, bringing together anti-corruption officials with the talents and creativity of software developers, aiming to develop applications for the anti-corruption challenges.
These digital applications may include:
• Educational applications aimed at students,
• Establish a central platform for receiving complaints about corruption,
• Creating tools for civil servants,
• Cost-of-cost visualization applications,
• Implementation for the monitoring of state budgets and the monitoring of procedures by citizens,
• Games that will familiarize citizens with the concept of corruption.
These proposals will teach / ensure citizens the necessary measure of transparency and integrity that should govern public life, making them collaborators in the effort to combat these phenomena.
At the discretion of the OECD, winners will have the opportunity to sign a contract supply services in order to develop their idea into a complete technological tool ready for use by the public.
Η choice of winners will be made by a jury.
Applications will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
• Relevance to Promoting Integrity and Fighting Corruption,
• Innovation,
• Practical utility,
• Potential viability and impact,
• Clarity of the presentation.
Detailed information in the attached documents. Participants may express interest and direct questions/clarifications regarding the Hackathon by emailing OOSA.info [at] oecd.org until March 22.
This initiative is taken in the framework of the Greek Anti-Corruption Plan, which is supported by the OECD and the European Commission in the context of technical assistance to fight corruption.
More information and analytical terms of Public Integrity Hackathon exist available here.
