IdentiHack is the identify of the subsequent blockchain-related hackathon in Latin America, the place self-sovereign digital identity will probably be handled as the important subject.
The union of the DIDI Challenge, Bitcoin Argentina, BID Lab and LACChain, will convey this occasion just about, and it’ll happen between June 28 and July 16.
In it, up to $ 110,000 US {dollars} will probably be awarded in prizes for the contributors, amongst whom are anticipated to be entrepreneurs, designers, in these applied sciences and groups of builders.
To be eligible for awards, contributors should submit proposals for technical enhancements linked to decentralization and optimization of the identity mannequin developed by the DIDI mission.
On July 23, a stay Demo Day will probably be held for the chosen groups to current their work.
The prizes will probably be distributed as follows:
Between $ 30,000 and $ 60,000 for the first place Up to $ 30,000 for the second place $ 1,500 for the relaxation of the contestants chosen for the presentation of the documentation
As well as, diplomas will probably be awarded and recommendation will probably be offered for the design and documentation of the profitable proposals.
“By IdentiHack we search to strengthen an open ecosystem round self-sovereign or decentralized digital identity fashions. We wish to create a worldwide, broad collaboration house that serves to speed up the innovation course of of the SSI mannequin that we elaborate from DIDI »
DIDI Challenge Director, Javier Madariaga.
Who will take part in this primary blockchain digital identity hackathon in Latin America?
The record of jurors and mentors who will take part in IdentiHack is made up of:
Madariaga, Andres Junge, co-founder and present CTO of Notabene Mauricio Tovar Gutierrez, CEO of TRU and consultant of Colombia earlier than the Ibero-American Blockchain Alliance Sergio Ceron Figueroa, Blockchain Architect at the IDB Lab and chief of the Identity working group Digital at LACChain. Federico Prieto, guide at BID Lab. Milton Berman, Product proprietor at RSK. Andrea Navia, IT Challenge Supervisor; Tamara Bagdassarian, IT coordinator at Proyecto DIDISolange Gueiros, blockchain engineer, Soledad Canepa, Technical Operations Supervisor at BitGive® Basis, Patricio Lopez Cerda, Blockchain Developer at Andes Blockchain, amongst others.
The place do I enroll?
To register for this blockchain hackathon you could go to https://didi.org.ar/identihack/ Registrations are open and shut on June 28.
“We now have endeavored to make extraordinarily enticing prizes accessible for such an occasion. We goal to summon all the potential that collective intelligence can provide in order to launch the creativity and innovation current in the area at the service of these varieties of fashions that promise to be the future of digital identity »
Javier Madariaga.
About the DIDI Challenge
Its formal identify is Social, civic and financial inclusion by means of Blockchain fashions, and it’s the first self-sovereign blockchain digital identity mission in Argentina.
Digital self-sovereignty shouldn’t be interpreted as a method in which people self-identify, as it is a completely reverse idea.
What the DIDI mission seeks is to strengthen public administration entities and competent our bodies with the identification of folks, updating the methods with the new worldwide requirements, akin to verifiable credentials or decentralized identifiers.
The aim of all that is to enhance belief ranges and break down some of the socioeconomic boundaries that forestall entry to high quality items and companies for populations in rising neighborhoods.
The mission is promoted by the NGO Bitcoin Argentina along with BID Lab with the help of LACChain, IOV Labs (RSK Sensible Contracts + RIF), NEC Argentina, Atix Labs, Semillas Program, Accenture Argentina, Azure, Alianza Blockchain Iberoamérica, Blockchain Federal Argentina and Wicklow Capital.
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