BSIC Decentralized Impact Incubator Hackathon :: Refugees

The Decentralized Impact Incubator is a 6-week program to ideate and prototype blockchain-based solutions to global social and environmental challenges. During the period, participants from around the will gather to form teams, design business models, draft proposals and code. Teams need to pass through weekly checkpoints and are guided by mentors throughout the process. Winning projects will receive grants to support continued development.

Before you Begin

If you have not already, please register for the overall challenge to get all of the rules, and follow the Incubator-wide communications in the forum there.

https://www.topcoder.com/challenges/30063672/?type=develop&noncache=true

About this Use Case

From Myanmar to Syria, geopolitical instability has created the largest humanitarian crisis since WWII. 65.6 million people are forcibly displaced, and lack of identity, opaqueness of process, insufficient aid and political obstructions are adding to their undue burden. Blockchain technology is often touted as a solution to uplift refugees, providing services ranging from self-agency and educational credentialing to crisis response and evidence collection in dangerous regions. As the technology matures, it has become more durable, reliable, and appropriate to deploy in many of these use cases.

Suggested Readings:

How Refugees Are Helping Create Blockchain’s Brand New World
https://www.wired.com/story/refugees-but-on-the-blockchain/

Blockchain for Refugees: Great Hopes, Deep Concerns
http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/blockchain-refugees-great-hopes-deep-concerns

Has global development reached ‘peak blockchain hype?’
https://www.devex.com/news/has-global-development-reached-peak-blockchain-hype-91906

Judging & Scoring

This challenge will be scored by Judges outside this platform, not Topcoder reviewers. The scorecard attached to this challenge will be used as a proxy for the cumultative review of those judges.
Please view the scoring rubric here: https://airtable.com/shryJsiCL6nc2hieb 

Final Submission Guidelines

For Checkpoint Submissions
When your team is formed, you will be provided with a private forum with your mentor on the use case challenge like this one. You will be expected to upload your checkpoint information to the forum for your mentor to see and comment on.

For Final Submissions
You are expected to upload a .zip containing all necessary assets for your submission.

Your zip should contain:

1. All documentation of your project meeting the scoring rubric
2. A README.md in the root file describing your project layout
3. For your video demo, please upload your video to Youtube, mark it as unlisted, and put the URL in your README.md

NOTE: If you are expecting a large filesize upload for some reason (larger than 1GB) please let us know before the submission deadline.