16 universities from all over Spain join this challenge in which hundreds of hackers meet on March 21, 22 and 23 to provide technological and innovative solutions to social problems raised by the public.
The Catholic University already contributed in the previous edition to the winning team.
They won the first prize in the Big Day, where the three best teams of all the local winners of the Hack For Good compete.
This team from the UCAM presented SAMEBullying, a proposal promoted by the Technological Institute of Murcia (ITM), in which they developed a digital vaccine to detect, prevent and treat cyberbullying.
This project monitors the social networks of minors identifying a series of behavioral patterns known as precursors of future bullies and also those to whom aggression is already occurring.
With this information, action protocols are activated by risk levels to offer individualized responses that adapt to each one of them from the three family, school and professional environments.
The registration period of the 2019 edition of this Hack For Good, which is celebrated on 21, 22 and 23 at the UCAM, is still open and can be done at www.itm.ucam.edu/H4GMurcia You can participate in three forms, as a challenger, proposing challenges that help improve the world, www.Hacforgood.net, as a hacker, participating in the search and development of solutions, or as a disseminator collaborating in the dissemination on social networks with the hashtag # hackforgood2019.
During the 48 hours of the Hackathon, participants will develop applications associated with these social challenges posed by society or by themselves and will do so in a record time, guided and monitored by mentors and professors from UCAM and Telefónica.
In the meeting the creativity and innovation of the proposed solutions will be valued, the degree of finishing achieved during these three days and the social impact of the same.
The local prizes amount to two thousand euros and the possibility of participating in the other categories of national and Big Day awards.
In total there are more than € 45,000 in prizes and very good training opportunities.
Source: UCAM