Applications Invited Education Innovation Case Competition

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About the Organization

David Clark Cause (DCC) is a global leader in creating cause-related brands (“Cause Brands”) and initiatives that address some of the greatest causes of our time. By leveraging iconic individuals and organizations and aligning them to build purpose-driven coalitions around a specific social justice issue, DCC has raised millions of dollars for social good, and positively impacted the lives of people around the world.

For over two decades, DCC founder David Clark has successfully engaged world leaders, dignitaries, celebrities, governments, corporations, charities and the public at large to create innovative and sustainable Cause Brands that educate, empower and inspire people to action.

About the Event

Challenge: Design an innovative technology solution that addresses a problem aligned to achieving accessible and equitable quality education

Equal and equitable access to quality education is one of the greatest challenges facing global society. Socio-economic status, geography, race, gender, and disability all play a role in how and when we learn, and the resulting opportunities education opens. Critically, the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded long-existing challenges and wiped out 20 years of progress.*

Technology can be key to addressing these issues. Regardless of your course of study, by participating in this case competition you can devise innovative solutions that address the challenge of making quality education a right for all – not a privilege. As current students, the world needs your expertise, empathy, and unique perspective to design technological solutions to a global problem.

The competition theme is, "A future of education that ensures accessible and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all," inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4

(https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4).

Your solution should address one of the diverse challenges aligned to this theme and demonstrate how technology can help communities in need around the world. While solution submissions do not need to include working code, you will need to describe the technologies required and how those technologies fit into the solution.

Eligibility

This Contest is Void to Residents of U.S. Embargoed Countries and is void Wherever Restricted by, Without Limitation, Filing or Registration Requirements, or is otherwise Prohibited or Restricted by Law. In addition, employees, employers, officers and directors of:  (i) IBM Group, including Red Hat (ii) government agencies, departments, branches, instrumentalities and public  enterprises, whether regional, national or local (iii) any advertising and promotion agencies, and those individuals and entities involved in the preparation of materials for, administration, organization (including David Clark Cause) and/or execution of this event  and/or this Contest (all collectively the “Promotion Entities”), and, and (iv) the immediate family members (defined as parents, children, siblings and spouse, including step and foster relations) regardless of where they reside, and/or individuals living in the same household (whether or not related) of any of the Promotion Entities are not eligible to participate in the Contest. Prior to registering for the Event, each participant, whether individually or as part of a team, must ensure that he/she is in compliance with any employment or other contract to which he/she is a party on issues such as, but not limited to, eligibility to participate, intellectual property and acceptance of prizes. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clause (ii) of this paragraph, university or college students employed by their educational institution for part-time work, through work-study programs or otherwise, are eligible to participate in the Contest.

“IBM Group” includes IBM Corporation and any legal entity and the subsidiaries it owns by more than 50 percent. It also includes Red Hat Inc. and all its subsidiaries.

Additionally, in order to be eligible for the Contest, all team members must be students that are enrolled in an accredited institution of higher education during all or any portion of the Call for Code Education Innovation Case Competition (September 30, 2021 – November 11, 2021).

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