Call for Code: How Will You Make a Difference?
summary
IBM describes Call for Code as a multi-year challenge that drew 100,000 developers and produced 2,500 apps in 2018; it offers a $200,000 grand prize and UN partnership. Examples include Project OWL—IoT nodes that form cellular-independent mesh networks for disaster communication—and labs using Watson Visual Recognition, server-side Swift, and serverless backends to build push‑notification‑free rescue flows. A proposed drone+iPhone mapping demo shows how developers turn those tools into flood‑mapping and rescue prototypes.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 0:25Hurricane Harvey impact on Houston
- 3:18Community rescue with Nextdoor.com
- 5:23Call for Code hackathon overview
- 6:24IBM tech demos and labs
- 7:45How to get involved
- 8:26Q&A session
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