What happens when designers, big-data researchers, students, and technologists are put together in the same room and asked to tackle the world’s greatest challenge?
That’s exactly what happened at “Coding for Climate Change”, a startup contest co-organized by Ask Lab and Adapting to Climate Change in China (ACCC). This event puts 100,000RMB of seed funding per team up for grabs and invites anyone in the public to generate ideas that uses technology to either raise awareness or to create tools to prevent future climate change impact.
This is a first for China, having entrepreneurs co-create with government sponsored researchers. We’re ecstatic about the possibilities for true social impact and for amazing startups. What’s even more ground-breaking is the fact that these researchers not only have contributed their time, but also a wealth of datasets; making it open to the public and our creative community to play with and use in their apps, websites or any other solution they can think of!
In living up to the principles of open innovation, the first weekend of the event invited anyone in the public including, students, entrepreneurs and other non-programmers to the ideation and empathy sessions, where they distilled the massive obstacle of climate change into a personal and solvable challenge. See the video here: http://challenges.asklab.org
Coding for Climate Change continues on August 31st with a morning pitch session in the “Lighthouse” on Changping Rd 700, open to anyone with passion or perhaps, literally, a world-changing idea. Teams will then be formed, racing against time to flush out their ideas and get customer validation of their products supported by our amazing mentors and good food. All this before the final pitch on Sunday evening, where a panel of judges including officials from the British Embassy, as well as investors focused on social-entrepreneurship will decide the winning startups of the 100,000rmb seed-funding.
We would like to invite you to be part of this bottom-up impact driven event as a participant in the coming weekend (aug 31, sep 1)and get connected with so many passionate people all working to make an impact towards climate change. Please let us know if you would like to reserve a spot (we have 50 spots in total). Our email address is: team@asklab.org
For more information about this event, please click on over to http://challenges.asklab.org.
把设计师，数据研究员，学生族，极客丢进一个房子里，带着各自的兴趣专长攻克世界级难题，会抛出怎样有意思的看点来？
“应对气候变化”活动是基于以上开放形式，由问社和ACCC一同发起的一次创业者竞赛。在这里我们公开邀请所有人集思广益，通过技术为大众提供理解气候世界的新逻辑，炼出十八般武艺抵御未来气候变化的负能量，最后被挑选入围的每个团队都将获得10万人民币的种子基金。
企业家们与政府支持的科研人员突破框架和界限，共同创造，在中国史无前例。随其而产生的社会正能量以及锋芒毕露的初创团队，我们翘首期待！这次活动最难得的是政府机构研究人员不仅为此贡献出私人时间全全参与，更是摆出了大量政府研究数据，无偿开放给本次活动所有参与者。他们有求必应，那你何不趁此东风“草船借箭”！
为正赛打开参与者思路，我们在上周末邀请了学生，企业家，技术盲一同发散思维，归纳整理。如今他们已经在这条专业技术的不归路上，为后人扫清了重重障碍，以小见大，将解决方案归结到个人点上。视频链接：http://challenges.asklab.org
“应对气候变化”开放式竞赛将在本周继续为你呈现，8月31日一早将以大家漫天的想法开场，就在昌平路700号，带着你的想法，热情轻装上阵！借我们的平台招兵买马，组建你的私人战队，让专业导师 帮你完善你的商业模式，由你来享受我们精心准备的周末午餐！经过两天的共同打理，周日晚上各个团队将最终成数想法，届时将有来自英国领事馆的官员，长期专注于社会企业的投资人一同挑选出10万奖金的何去何从。
我们在这里诚邀你在本周末加入我们（8月31日，9月1日），结交同道中人，在彼此的兴趣点上一同“做文章”！心动的话，就邮件我们预留参与席位吧（报名人数上限50人），邮箱地址：team@asklab.org
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