tracks
each track has limited spots. spots are released the day of the hackathon. you can learn about the tracks but not reserve a spot.
all projects must be open source.
what is it
this track is about making power legible. build tools that reveal how public money moves, who benefits, where abuse happens, and how institutions can be held accountable
what fits
- projects that make public spending, procurement, lobbying, asset declarations, or political finance easier to inspect
- tools that cross-reference contracts, vendors, budgets, and public records to surface red flags
- dashboards, alerts, or investigation tools for citizens, journalists, auditors, or watchdogs
- systems that make opaque public processes searchable, traceable, and understandable
what doesn't fit
- generic govtech tools with no anti-corruption angle
- dashboards with no real data collection, verification, or investigative value
- awareness campaigns without a concrete product or mechanism
- projects that visualize data but do not help detect, explain, or reduce abuse
what is it
this track is about seeing environmental harm earlier and responding faster. build tools that monitor risk, forecast damage, and help communities, responders, or institutions act before things get worse
what fits
- projects that monitor environmental harm using satellite data, sensors, drones, or public datasets
- tools for wildfire detection, flood prediction, air quality monitoring, water risk, or illegal extraction
- systems that help communities, responders, or regulators act earlier on climate and environmental threats
- products that expose environmental damage governments or companies fail to track well
what doesn't fit
- generic climate apps with no clear monitoring, prediction, or mitigation use case
- carbon footprint calculators with no novel data, intervention, or operational value
- sustainability branding tools with no real-world risk reduction
- projects that describe environmental problems without helping detect, forecast, or respond to them
what is it
def/acc is about accelerating technologies that help society defend itself, especially against large-scale threats like cyberattacks, bio risk, disinformation, and failures in critical systems. build things that prevent harm, detect threats early, and make people, institutions, and infrastructure more resilient under pressure
what fits
- cybersecurity, AI security, critical infrastructure protection, vulnerability detection, and patching at scale
- biosecurity, outbreak detection, lab safety, and early-warning systems
- anti-disinformation, provenance, bot detection, and tools that reduce mass persuasion risk
- products that amplify human agency under AI, helping people supervise systems, stay in the loop, and avoid displacement
- in general, projects that improve society's defensive capacity rather than just making systems more powerful
what doesn't fit
- generic AI apps with no defensive use case
- purely offensive capabilities
- "safety" projects with no concrete threat model or protection mechanism
- vague social good ideas that do not make people, institutions, or infrastructure more resilient