The United States Diplomacy Center and World Resources Institute are partnering to host ImpactHack, a data visualization hackathon in Washington DC. Participants will utilize resources from the world’s top authorities to tell stories of international collaboration. Topics span from human rights to energy access. Policy think tank experts and leading technology specialists will advise and work with teams. Winners will be judged on innovation and technical achievement and storytelling of interactive prototypes.

The 24-hour challenge, sponsored by Amazon Web Services, is open to any developers and designers over the age of 18— individuals and teams — who want to flex their coding and creative muscles and build something beautiful. ImpactHack will open Friday, September 21st at the Department of State headquarters Pavilion with project pitches, and a reception to begin socializing, formulating groups and generating ideas and testing them with topic experts. On Saturday, hackers will engage in a 10 hour creation session at World Resources Institute headquarters to design and visualize projects, utilizing WRI's 2018 launch, Resource Watch, and State Department data. Winner and prize announcements will immediately follow presentations.

All products will be open source and free for anyone to use or modify. Participant coordination will be executed through our slack channel.

Schedule

For a detailed schedule download Participant Orientation Below.

Friday September 21st 

4:30 pm - Doors Open, Food

5 pm - Speakers + Project pitches

6 pm - Reception, group formation, idea formulation

(Participants go home. Participants may begin working on projects on their own but should not expect responses from mentors until 8 am Saturday.)

Saturday September 22nd World Resources Institute

10 G St NE Washington DC 20002

8 am Breakfast

9 am Kickoff & AWS Technologies Deep Dive (optional)

9 am - 6 pm Hacking

12 pm - 3 pm Lunch provided

4 pm - Prototype submission, pre-judging begins

6 pm - Three-minute Presentations

7 pm - Judges announce winners

Documents

Technical Primer

AWS Account Set Up

Participant Oriention - Detailed Schedule and FAQ

Team Sign Up

Judging Rubric

 World Resources Institute (Saturday)

 --WRI Layout

Data

Interactive Globe Prompt

https://wri-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/ImpactHack/Interactive Globe.zip

State-by-State Prompt

https://wri-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/ImpactHack/Gamify State-by-State Diplomacy Map.zip

Embassies Over Time Prompt

https://wri-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/ImpactHack/Embassies over time.zip

Refugees Prompt 

https://wri-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/ImpactHack/Refugees.zip

Paris Agreement Prompt

https://wri-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/ImpactHack/Paris Agreement.zip

Energy Investment and Risk Prompt

https://wri-public-data.s3.amazonaws.com/ImpactHack/Energy_Investment_and_Risk_final.zip

$3,000 in prizes

Submissions will be executed through the DevPost.

See submission guidelines.

• Functionality
  Does the product function as intended? Is it robust and easy to interact with?
• Design
  Is the product aesthetically pleasing? Does the design of the product elevate its message?
• Innovation
  Does the product introduce a new approach or perspective, technical, analytical, or visual?
• Quality
  Are the product and its messages analytically sound and well written?
• Fit
  Does the product address the prompt?