From January 27 to 29, a large-scale hackathon “Open Data Challenge 2022” was held in the capital city, organized by IT Park, the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Uzbekistan and the Virtual Group IT company with the support of the Statistics Agency under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Anti-Corruption Agency and Akfa University.
The competition was attended by 265 people (17 girls and 248 boys), who were divided into 97 teams. Each of the teams worked on their own project in the following areas: public sector — 16, social sector — 40, business sector — 31, anti-corruption — 10.
68 out of 97 teams reached the final presentation at Demo Day, which proves the high preparedness and professionalism of the contestants.
Demo Day was held in two stages, after which the best projects in each direction were selected. According to the results of the juryʼs assessments, the following teams became the winners of the hackathon:
- 1st place – (anti-corruption): the Tzeentch team (Boris Soifer, Alexander Shabanov, Igor Dostavalov) – a project to identify buildings that are not included in the cadastral register in order to identify illegal buildings;
- 2nd place (social sector): Cookies (Maftuna Ziyamova, Malika Rakhimova, David Alkamyan) – a mobile application to help victims of domestic violence;
- 3rd place (public sector): Realcto (Alexey Mordvinov) – a platform that connects the state and universities for transparent saturation with qualified data, as well as the distribution of grants.
The winners were awarded with valuable prizes such as HP Victus Notebooks, Samsung Tab Tablets, Xiaomi Smartphones.