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Baku/17.06.19/Turan: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Country Office in Azerbaijan is launching the first ever Inclusivity Hackathon in Azerbaijan on 28 - 30 June 2019. Bringing close to a hundred people together in the capital Baku, the Hackathon will draw innovative solutions to support people with varying abilities. Those who wish to participate in the Hackathon should register on the UNDP UNLIMITED page until 23:59 pm on June 23, 2019 and fill out an applicationhttp://www.unlimited.az/apply или http://www.edu-active.com/contests/2019/jun/17/unlimited-azerbaijans-1st-inclusivity-hackathon.html.
At present over 15% of the world"s population are living with a disability. In Azerbaijan, the number of people with disabilities (PwD) is reported at 620,000 or about 6% of the population. They constitute about 30% of 1.3 million pensioners with 60% of recipients of disability benefits being minors. Every day PwDs face difficulties and encounter barriers, which oftentimes remain invisible for the broader public: inaccessible infrastructure, stigma, lack of relevant assistive technology, nonexistent services and policies in almost all areas of life. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the most common challenges facing people living with disabilities include attitudinal, physical limitations, social factors, lack of accessible infrastructure, including communications and transport systems as well as the lack sufficient legislative and policy support. Often, people with disabilities encounter more than one barrier at a time.
To tackle these barriers in a non-traditional way, UNDP Azerbaijan is organizing a two-day Inclusivity Hackathon under "Unlimited" concept. The main purpose of the 48-hours non-stop event is to bring together motivated representatives of the civil society, people with disabilities (PwD) and young civic and technology enthusiasts. They get exposed to challenges of PwD experience in Azerbaijan, come up with ideas and open source code solutions to tackle these challenges (e.g. apps, websites, e-products) as well as "acquire the fire" from a group of mentors to further their ideas into a workable prototypes to improve lives of PwDs.
The Hackathon will be held at the Museum of Art (Bayil district, National Flag Square, 1000 Baku, Azerbaijan). Experienced mentors will support the participating teams and assist them in developing best possible solutions. By the end of the three-day intensive programme, filled with exciting learning modules and adrenaline-driven experience, the Jury members selected from among high profile national and international experts in the field of innovation, inclusivity and technology will review individual team profiles and will give their final verdict on the winning idea.
If you and your team want to partake in a positive social change, create digital solutions to improve the wellbeing of PwDs in Azerbaijan and make this world a better place to live Leaving No One Behind please join the UNDP"s inaugural Inclusivity Hackathon!--0--
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