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CIFOR-ICRAF PHOTO COMPETITION

Application Deadline: 14 October 2024

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

Calling all professional photographers, photo enthusiasts, content creators, and nature lovers. Gear up to showcase the stunning beauty and critical importance of our planet’s biodiversity through the lens of your camera. Let’s inspire action to protect the richness of our natural world.

You are invited you to capture the essential role of forests and trees in promoting biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and driving restoration efforts.

ELIGIBILITY:

The CIFOR-ICRAF photo competition welcomes participants aged 18 or older. You are encouraged to use the photography equipment with which you are most comfortable. Employees of CIFOR-ICRAF are not eligible to enter. 

By submitting photos to the competition, the contributor agrees to a creative commons, attribution, non-commercial share-alike license (BY-NC-SA).

By uploading the image, the contributor ensures that the image was taken legally and that they have the right to portray all people or other information contained in the image.

You may submit multiple entries with maximum 3 photos; however, you can only have one ultimate entry in the final round

The uploaded file must include the photo’s title, name, email address, social media handles (if applicable), and a caption stating the following: the subject and location, and a short description of the story behind the picture.

You must have the full copyright to the submitted photos. Therefore, by submitting your entries, you will be presumed to have agreed to accept the contest rules and the terms and conditions.

Please note the following rules:

Entries should not include watermarks, signatures, or captions.

Entries that have previously won other photography competitions will be automatically disqualified.

Submissions featuring children or minors are not eligible.

Entries generated using generative artificial intelligence tools or with their assistance are ineligible.

Images portraying the willful harassment of wildlife will not be accepted.

Photos taken in ways that cause or have caused environmental damage by the photographer, including capturing images in areas where human presence is restricted by authorities or property managers, are not eligible.

Photos taken before the year 2010 will not be eligible.

BENEFIT:

1st: USD 500

2 nd: USD 400

People’s choice award: USD 300

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AFROTECH AI HACKATHON

Application Deadline: October 1, 2024 @ 4:45am GMT+1

LOCATION: USA

The core objective of this initiative is to challenge participants to build their own applications that integrate LLM APIs of existing technologies via a virtual hackathon leading up to the AfroTech Conference.

Participants will be challenged to build or update a software application that integrates APIs from Google Gemini or OpenAI and fits into one of the following categories:

Health and Medical

Sustainability

Cybersecurity and Risk

Skills-based Workforce Development

ELIGIBILITY:

Ages 21+ only

Companies/professional organizations excluded from participation

Only specific countries/territories included

Submissions to the Hackathon must meet the following requirements:

Include a Project built with the required developer tools and meets the above Project Requirements.

Include a text description that should explain the features and functionality of your Project.

Include a demonstration video of your Project. The video portion of the Submission:

should be around three (3) minutes. Judges are not required to watch beyond three minutes 

should include footage that shows the Project functioning on the device for which it was built

must be uploaded to and made publicly visible on YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, or Youku, and a link to the video must be provided on the submission form on the Hackathon Website; and

must not include third party trademarks, or copyrighted music or other material unless the Entrant has permission to use such material.

Include a URL to your public code repository

Include a public URL to your app

Multiple Submissions 

An Entrant may submit more than one Submission, however, each Submission must be unique and substantially different from each of the Entrant’s other Submissions, as determined by the Sponsor and Devpost in their sole discretion.

Submission ownership

Be the original work of the Entrant, be solely owned by the Entrant, and not violate the IP rights of any other person or entity.

BENEFIT:

$15,000 in prizes

First Place:

$7,500 USD Cash Prize
Up to $5,000 USD Team Travel Reimbursement for AfroTech Conference 2024
Complimentary AfroTech Conference 2024 All-Access Ticket
AfroTech.com Editorial Feature post event
Complimentary AfroTech Insider Membership

Second Place:

$5,000 USD Cash Prize
Complimentary AfroTech Conference 2024 Executive Ticket
AfroTech.com Editorial Feature post event
Complimentary AfroTech Insider Membership

Third Place:

$2,500 USD Cash Prize
Complimentary AfroTech Conference 2024 General Admission Ticket
Complimentary AfroTech Insider Membership

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