Hajj Hackathon

Saudi government is going to manage the first Hajj hackathon, which will be started from 01 August to 03 August and this 36 hours long hackathon will be the first in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government will invite the tech entrepreneurs, developers, designers and innovators from all over the world and the main purpose behind this event is that to built such technology, which can streamline the Hajj process as around 2 million Muslims perform the pilgrimage.
The Hackathon
Saudi Federation for Cybersecurity, Programming, and Drones has done the partnership with Google and Rise Up of Egypt to organize this event. It is the first time that Saudi government looked up to the technological innovators to improve experience of pilgrims in two holy cities.
The Muslims all over the world know that Hajj pilgrimage is performed in different cities and there are some moving and logistic problems are involved. The participants of this event will provide the solutions to solve the problems related to:
• Food and beverage
• Travel, transportation and residence arrangements
• Crowd management and traffic control
• Waste management
• Housing and communication solutions
The winner will be announced after judging the criteria given in the following:
• Design
• Simplicity
• Creativity
• Impact
The Prizes
The above mentioned variable will have five points and the competition has prize of 2 million Saudi Riyal, which is the equity investment in the product. Other prizes of competition are added with free tickets to Google IO 2019 Developers Conference in United States, which will be organized in April – June next year and also in the RiseUp Summit 2018. They will get Google Home Mini with the built in Google Assistant. The prizes are:
• The grand prize is added with 1 million Saudi Riyal as the 15% equity investment
• The 1st runner will get the prize of 500,000 Saudi Riyal
• The 2nd runner will get the prize of 350,000 Saudi Riyal
You should visit the given link and apply for Hackthon and the organizers will arrange the flights, accommodation and visas for ideas, which are shortlisted for Hackathon.