Moving the society forward with ideas - #SustainHack case study
Responsible Business Forum
Challenge in numbers
Number of projects: 64
Number of participants: 242
Duration: 2 months
Prizes: 2x 10.000 PLN
Projects
There were, in fact, two separate challenges one could take part in, first being by the BGŻ BNP Paribas bank, which aimed at fighting the social exclusion with ideas. More specifically, the bank sought solutions to help elderly, and impaired people with access to online banking, contactless payments, and everything related to financial matters in the electronic reality that we live in.
1st place - Easily - Safely - Online
This project is an internet banking app designed
Honorable mention - ParrotOne
Honorable mention - Online banking for seniors
Online banking service is presented in a form of a game/simulation with different levels of difficulty. Such system is meant to help elderly people improve their understanding of how electronic payments work, step by step.
The second challenge in the event was set by Kompania Piwowarska, which sought ways of raising awareness of responsible alcohol consumption, preventing pregnant women from drinking, and stopping intoxicated people from driving.
1st place - Kompan Chatbot
Kompan Chatbot, according to its creators, is not meant to scare or moralize its users, but rather to educate and help consume alcohol responsibly. It’s a Facebook Messenger chatbot available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and to assist its users it asks a set of questions to gather essential information on the person and give them instructions and suggestions how to plan their partying time so that they can spend it safely and enjoy themselves.
2nd place - AlkoSTOP
This project suggests to cleverly repurpose beer bottle labels, changing the name of a beverage to a short slogan promoting responsible alcohol consumption. The solution is very easy and inexpensive to introduce, yet can directly impact and positively influence the target group. In addition, the inside of the bottle cap is suggested to be a place for short alcohol-related facts that serve
3rd place - FaceRecognition –
Who said buying a bottle of your favorite beer can’t be made more fun? Authors of this project decided to give it a shot. A face recognition system is meant to determine the age of person attempting to buy alcohol in a shop. If the age is determined to be below the legal one to be allowed to make the purchase, the clerk has the leverage to deny. If, however, such prediction is incorrect, and the person is, in fact, allowed to buy their drink, the shop gives it out for free. It might be a fun lottery kind of challenge, which will surely help identify underage people better and deny selling alcohol to them.
Purpose
The world is moving forward faster than ever before, technological breakthroughs happen on a daily basis, comfort and standard of our lives is improving by the minute. You can work from your home, get paid via money transfer to your bank account, order a pizza online, and pay for it using a contactless card. It’s all clear, you do that every week, nothing out of ordinary, right? For you, sure, but let’s not forget elderly, and disabled people are also a part of our society, and their abilities to operate in the electronically-oriented world aren’t on par with yours. They are excluded from the wonders of moderns technology, the purpose of #SustainHack was to help change that situation.
Alcoholic beverages are a part of almost every house party and consuming them responsibly will lead to great times with friends, but like with everything in life, moderation is the key. It’s not unusual to see the news about intoxicated driver causing loss of lives of innocent people. Some pregnant women, be it due to stress, difficult social background, or other factors might happen to drink alcohol, harming their unborn children in the process. While a glass of wine or a bottle of beer can be a perfect complement to the
What we have learned
#SustainHack was designed by, and for Polish people, targeting issues that are well known in our society, and with that, we expected the participants to be very engaged in solving the problems they may have been affected by, directly or indirectly. Project submitted to the challenge
Every hackathon we organize at ChallengeRocket.com is an extremely valuable lesson, and we cherish each and every one of those. In case of #SustainHack we went outside of the regular set of tasks related to promotion, which, by now, we believe to have perfected. Along with heads of Responsible Business Forum, BGŻ BNP Paribas and Kompania Piwowarska we’ve held a
As a platform for challenges like this one, it has been an honor to help organize #SustainHack. Working with Responsible Business Forum, as well as its partners, BGŻ BNP Paribas bank
If you missed the chance to take part in this challenge don’t worry, there’s plenty more to come! Visit our list of hackathons and challenges, look around, be patient, pick one for yourself! We’ll be waiting for you!