🔍Create AI-driven, open-source solutions to optimize public sector network management in critical areas like predictive maintenance, total cost optimization (TOC), and energy efficiency—enhancing public sector networks' scalability, efficiency, and sustainability in underserved regions.
📅 Join us February 28–March 2, 2025: Participate online or in person in vibrant Barcelona at NTT DATA Living Lab, on the sidelines of MWC 2025, to collaborate with peers worldwide and shape the future of public sector connectivity.
👨🏫 Work alongside experienced industry mentors who will provide guidance and insights to elevate your solutions.
💰 $5,000 prize pool for the winners!
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EneRIC is an innovative project aimed at addressing connectivity issues in developing regions. Specifically, it focuses on the challenges of deploying 5G networks in rural areas, where infrastructure and operational costs are extremely high.
EnerRIC
An AI-driven solution that classifies schools based on connectivity needs and optimizes network expansion using mathematical modelling, reducing costs and ensuring scalable, reliable internet access with minimal investment.
AG Connectivity Taskforce
UniSphere: AI-powered procurement solution for public sector connectivity. Automates RFP analysis & bid evaluation, ensuring transparency, efficiency, and cost savings. Built with open-source AI for seamless integration.
Unisphere
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Checkout Upcoming Events →The AI for Connectivity Hackathon builds on the transformative mission of Giga, an initiative by UNICEF and ITU that aims to connect every school worldwide to the internet and every young person to opportunities and knowledge. This hackathon invites participants to use open-source AI technologies to address the pressing challenges of managing public sector networks—ensuring efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable operations for critical institutions like schools and health centers in underserved regions.
Public sector connectivity networks are digital infrastructures providing internet and communication services to institutions such as schools and healthcare facilities. These networks are essential for enabling equitable access to education, healthcare, and governance, particularly in remote areas. Optimizing their management is crucial to bridging the digital divide and advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This challenge is the second edition of a global series designed to bring together AI developers, educators, and innovators to co-create impactful solutions. Winning teams will gain access to an incubation program that provides mentorship, resources, and technical credits to transform their prototypes into impactful, real-world tools.
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For those joining the hackathon on-site, we’re thrilled to welcome you to the NTT DATA Living Lab in Barcelona, Spain! Here you’ll gain exclusive access to top mentors, collaborate with a passionate community, and access on-site support to bring your AI ideas to life.
The AI for Connectivity Hackathon on-site event is co-hosted with NTT DATA, which aims to create, share and promote knowledge on innovation and cross-sector partnerships in the Barcelona ecosystem.
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Participate in this hackathon to develop open-source AI-driven solutions that tackle complex challenges in designing and maintaining resilient, efficient, and sustainable public sector networks for underserved regions.
Public sector connectivity networks are digital infrastructures that provide internet and communication services to public institutions such as schools, healthcare facilities, and government offices. These networks enable equitable access to essential services, fostering education, healthcare, governance, and economic development, particularly in underserved or remote areas. They are essential to bring connectivity, in our increasingly digitized world, to every corner of the globe.
This hackathon challenges participants to address pressing global issues by leveraging advanced AI technologies to improve the planning, procurement, operations, and maintenance of public sector networks. Innovators are encouraged to design creative solutions that enhance the efficiency and sustainability of these networks, improve access to critical services, and empower communities.
Optimizing Public Sector Networks:
Public sector networks provide essential connectivity for schools, healthcare facilities, and government services. However, challenges in planning, procurement, infrastructure design, and resource allocation often hinder their efficiency and scalability.
This hackathon invites participants to develop AI-powered, open-source solutions that improve how these networks are designed, managed, and optimized—ensuring resilient, cost-effective, and scalable connectivity for underserved regions.
🔹 Your solution must align with at least one of the tracks below, but you are encouraged to combine multiple areas for greater impact.
Focus: Leverage data-driven insights to help design, plan, and blueprint scalable, cost-efficient network infrastructure for rural and remote areas.
• Community Asset Mapping: Integrate local data to ensure designs meet on-the-ground needs.
Focus: Maximize the potential of existing/underleveraged network assets to deliver high-quality digital services.
• Last-Mile Enhancement: Optimize signal strength, speed, bandwidth, and reliability where basic infrastructure is already in place.
• Service Resilience: Develop solutions that sustain network performance under typical constraints of rural and remote areas, including extreme or variable local conditions.
• Digital Service Activation: Create platforms that transform existing connectivity into robust, community-focused digital services.
Participants are encouraged to explore next-gen telecom technologies to maximize impact and scalability.
• Advanced Network Architectures: Experiment with the latest network technologies, network slicing, and massive MIMO to boost capacity and reliability.
• Edge Computing & Virtualization: Leverage Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), and edge computing for dynamic, scalable network operations.
Use cutting-edge telecom innovations to build smarter, more efficient, and future-ready public sector networks.
Unlock the Ultimate Resource Hub for Network Innovation
Explore our carefully curated guide designed to accelerate your network development projects.This collection includes datasets, tools, and simulators tailored to help you analyze connectivity gaps, optimize networks, and explore advanced technologies like 5G. Whether you’re working on rural connectivity, infrastructure planning, or cutting-edge telecom solutions, this resource hub equips you with everything you need to build impactful solutions efficiently.
Click here to access the guide and start exploring!
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Use any open-source technology to develop an innovative solution that addresses the challenge. Submissions must comply with the open-source requirements, ensuring transparency and accessibility of your project.
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💰 Cash: $3,000
💰 Cash: $1,500
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The top teams from this hackathon will secure a spot in the exclusive 6-week GIGA & lablab NEXT incubator program.
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EneRIC is an innovative project aimed at addressing connectivity issues in developing regions. Specifically, it focuses on the challenges of deploying 5G networks in rural areas, where infrastructure and operational costs are extremely high.
EnerRIC
An AI-driven solution that classifies schools based on connectivity needs and optimizes network expansion using mathematical modelling, reducing costs and ensuring scalable, reliable internet access with minimal investment.
AG Connectivity Taskforce
UniSphere: AI-powered procurement solution for public sector connectivity. Automates RFP analysis & bid evaluation, ensuring transparency, efficiency, and cost savings. Built with open-source AI for seamless integration.
Unisphere
Submissions from the teams participating in the AI for Connectivity Hackathon II: Building Resilient Networks event and making it to the end 👊
MedVault AI ensures secure, AI-powered health records with offline access, SMS support & blockchain security, bridging healthcare gaps in remote areas.
UP
A fully autonomous, AI-driven connectivity solution that leverages "Giga Nodes"—smart, low-power, solar-powered devices—to establish resilient internet networks in underserved and remote regions.
Creativity with AI
Our project is a simple network management chatbot. It will help teachers, health facility network managers and individuals do basic diagnostic analysis of their network.
Maa Connect
This project uses machine learning to optimize TVWS base stations, predicting interference, failures, and providing AI recommendations. It features a dashboard, a simulation map, and procurement tracking.
VIBOT
AI platform to optimize school connectivity using geospatial data and LLMS for underserved regions
Global Green Guard
AI-Powered Network Planner for Rural Connectivity is a data-driven tool that leverages AI and GIS data to optimize cellular tower placement in rural areas, improving connectivity and network coverage.
CODE n COFEE
Hosting AI G is A seamless AI-powered property management system that enables frictionless host-guest connectivity while integrating with G Bot One to automate 99% of guest interactions.
Giuliano Bot
UniSphere: AI-powered procurement solution for public sector connectivity. Automates RFP analysis & bid evaluation, ensuring transparency, efficiency, and cost savings. Built with open-source AI for seamless integration.
Unisphere
AI-driven network management system leveraging anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, RL cost optimization, and Bayesian energy efficiency. Automated AI agents resolve issues in real-time for scalable, resilient networks
PanaDol Ultra
Mentor Mind Your AI Language Mentor , An AI-powered platform for language learning and career development. Offers offline pronunciation improvement features. Provides interactive learning experiences similar to Duolingo.
CompetitivIA AI Assistantsuite
KONEKTA is a game-changer in AI-powered digital connectivity, ensuring equitable access to knowledge, optimized network performance, and efficient digital resource distribution. KONEKTA is shaping the future of inclusive, AI-driven digital transformation.
Edtech Hub
A tool solve connectivity issue. 1. Solve problem for those who live in low interent zome. 2. Help user to find good vendor interent service provider.
Connectivity matters
NetDeploy AI streamlines network planning for telecom engineers and ISPs using Falcon-7B-Instruct. It offers AI-driven strategies, interactive mapping, and a user-friendly Gradio interface. 🚀
Dark sky
An AI-powered system that diagnoses and resolves network issues in environments with poor connectivity and limited technical expertise.
The Lonelist
Our project aims to provide equitable, personalized education and mentorship to African students through an AI-powered platform, using OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 as a multilingual chatbot, stable diffusion for visual lessons, and ElevenLabs for text-to-speech.
AIonMars
AIrine is a decentralized system that deploys local nodes on Android to provide AI-learning tools in resource-limited regions. It offers assistance and scalable expansion without the need for internet connectivity, ensuring broad accessibility.
Sherift
𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗧 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 leverages AI for predictive 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴, and 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 to 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 in 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀.
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AI-powered Android app turning smartphones into smart Wi-Fi access points, optimizing network coverage in schools and healthcare. AI dynamically routes users to the best signal, enhancing scalability, efficiency, and sustainability in underserved regions.
Astra Link
Optimizes 5G node placement balancing coverage and air quality. It uses population density and AQI simulations to score node locations, ensuring efficient network deployment while minimizing pollution exposure
Fokit
Bridging internet connectivity foR health care facilities through AI
Evarest
AIM Network is a cutting edge opensource AI-powered application for network engineers that integrates with monitoring tools and logs. It automates troubleshooting, provides real-time solutions, and enhances efficiency while reducing downtime.
AIM Network
GeoNode AI is an open-source Flask web application that optimizes telecom node placement in underserved regions using AI-driven KMeans clustering, Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and an interactive map with drag-and-drop functionality.
Smart Crew
NetExpert offers an AI-driven, open-source solution for optimal network setups tailored to needs, budget, and location. With AI-powered recommendations, automated analysis, and transparent pricing, NetExpert ensures seamless, cost-effective connectivity.
VINASCITECH
Multi Agents Implementation(net1, ene1, cyb1), data scientist analysing data for London Smart City (optimization of networking both on micro and macro scale) with exploring some potential use cases and provide stable/cheap technology systems.
Synthapse
GovLink AI enhances Smart Zambia’s e-government by improving network resilience and connectivity. It monitors network health, predicts downtimes, and automates failover strategies to ensure seamless access to essential digital services.
GovLink Ai SMART Zambia
AI-integrated Zabbix enhances school networks by detecting, analyzing, and diagnosing issues. Using Orca Mini & GPT-4, it provides real-time insights and solutions for better connectivity and IT management. 🚀
IAlovers
A sustainable funding model that bridges the digital divide by reallocating premium internet service fees from affluent regions to support internet infrastructure development in underconnected areas.
Amperes Squad
WiFi Guardian is an AI-powered tool that processes network logs, visualizes data with interactive 2D/3D charts, and generates detailed PDF security reports, ensuring robust WiFi network protection.
AI Innovators
Reduce internet dependency in rural schools through an AI-powered pre-caching system that locally stores educational resources and optimizes access to relevant web content.
PCKit
NetOptimize AI is an advanced AI-powered application designed to streamline telecom policy analysis, network design optimization, and resource allocation.
Synapse Link
A Smart Network Resource Allocation System using Prophet's time-series forecasting for efficient bandwidth distribution, anomaly detection, and energy-aware SDN load balancing. Features a Streamlit dashboard for real-time monitoring and insights.
ByteBand
An AI-driven solution that classifies schools based on connectivity needs and optimizes network expansion using mathematical modelling, reducing costs and ensuring scalable, reliable internet access with minimal investment.
AG Connectivity Taskforce
EneRIC is an innovative project aimed at addressing connectivity issues in developing regions. Specifically, it focuses on the challenges of deploying 5G networks in rural areas, where infrastructure and operational costs are extremely high.
EnerRIC
Network Optimizer is an AI tool that improves network connectivity by analyzing real-time data. It detects weak signals, optimizes infrastructure, and provides insights. With dashboards and smart recommendations, it enhances digital connectivity. 🚀
NetGenius
LafeAINet transforms connectivity complaints in Timor-Leste into actionable insights by combining a user-friendly reporting app, AI-powered analysis, and interactive visualizations.
LAFAEK AI
An AI-powered system optimizing network energy in rural areas with unstable grids, using satellite data and ML for real-time monitoring, dynamic power-saving, and solar integration, cutting costs and ensuring sustainable connectivity.
ConnectAI
Polisplexity blends AI agents with a dynamic digital twin to revolutionize rural network design, using real-time data and VR to optimize infrastructure, empower communities, and enable next-gen telecom planning through immersive experiences.
Hadox Research Labs
AI-driven, self-expanding mesh networks to connect schools and communities, incorporating zero-signal communication for offline access and AI-optimized bandwidth allocation.
Lace
An agentic, natural language dashboard for QoS monitoring
EagleNet
G.E.N.E.O is a Application Function (AF) based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) supervised with Large Language Model (LLM), focused on planning, optimization, and configuration of Edge User-plane Function (UPF) in 5G SA (Standalone) scenarios.
NTT Data Mexico
An eco-friendly shopping assistant that helps users discover sustainable products. It calculates carbon footprints, provides green product recommendations, and empowers users to make more environmentally conscious purchasing decisions.
victus
AI-Driven Predictive Maintenance for Network Resilience. An AI-powered predictive maintenance system that leverages operational, connectivity, and geospatial data to predict network outages and equipment failures.
Revolutionaries
The Cloud Native Inspired Farming Solution. I call it the Kubernetes for food. Such is meant to be an extention / simulation environment for EdenHouse where I bring the logistic network into Minecraft.
Edenhouse
gNIPP uses RAG and Agentic AI technologies for network infrastructure analysis tool designed to provide insights into network tower distribution, coverage, and signal strength. It also serves a guide for procurement policies and infrastructure planning.
Cool Cat
EduMate is an AI study assistant for managing and analyzing study materials. It offers summarization, quiz generation, Q&A, and note-taking using Gemini, FAISS, and Sentence Transformers for efficient learning.
EduMate
Many schools and healthcare centers in underserved areas suffer frequent network downtimes due bad weather The goal is to predict future downtimes using historical network data and provide alerts to preemptively optimize maintenance and response efforts.
Team Robinhood
UptimeAI leverages AI and real-time regional connectivity data to predict network outages before they occur, allowing governments, businesses, and individuals to take protective measures against losses and vulnerabilities.
UptimeAI
AI-Powered Calculation Model for School Connectivity Prioritization. Tool for Visualizing the Next Top 5 Schools Optimal for Connection With Included Cost Predictions and Best Technologies
BezimeniIT
The project uses AI tools to measure network stability by calculating response time (latency) from internet server responses and generating a report on connection speed.
Star
ConnectSense is an AI assistant that simplifies connectivity planning for South Asia's underserved areas. Using RAG, it offers tailored, easy-to-understand advice on telecommunications infrastructure for non-technical users with real time data.
ConnectSense
Public Sector Network Connectivity Analyzer - A robust application monitoring network performance across public institutions. tracks metrics, simulates scenarios, and provides geographic mapping for educational, healthcare, and government facilities.
BIRXUO
Transforming solar infrastructure into an intelligent solar network to bridge the connectivity gap in offgrid and rural areas by directly embedding AI agents in individual solarnodes powering rural communities
Synergy ML
The project is about using open source platforms such as Python and MySQL together with AI intelligence platforms from IBM and Huawei so as to optimize public sector network management. We have selected the third track of optimizing resource allocation
NetConnect
Meet ProfessorSTEM Your Fully AI Platform designed to provide a personalized and structured learning experience through quizzes, study plans, and progress tracking. All is done only using Artificial Intelligence from A to Z
EngiCoders
AI-powered platform optimizing public sector networks with predictive maintenance and energy savings for schools, clinics, and underserved communities.
GridGuardians
Aegis provides a lightweight and low cost approach to predictive maintenance while providing high resilience to internet connectivity loss.
Aegis
AI-driven, blockchain-backed network optimizer providing reliable, sustainable internet access to underserved schools, clinics, and governments. Reduces costs and enhances transparency with renewable energy integration.
AI Powered Micro ISPs
NetPulse AI is an innovative project designed predict network failures and optimize performance using AI-driven analysis of real-time data from Raspberry Pi.
HelixAI
AI-Powered Network Guardian is a prototype that uses AI and Streamlit for automated network monitoring, predictive maintenance, and cost optimization in public sectors. It currently runs on simulated data, not real-time insights.
Dynamic Duo
EduConnect is an AI-powered chatbot that connects students, educators, and institutions in underserved regions. It provides real-time insights, predicts challenges, and suggests solutions to improve education accessibility and quality worldwide.
Code Titans
AGO is an AutoGuided Onboarding chat flow that centralizes CFO reduction project’s communication. It automates scheduling, sends reminders, answers project queries, and gathers feedback to boost efficiency and streamline collaboration.
aimty
NetworkDeployAI helps telecom operators repurpose existing pipeline sections (canalitzacions) from the Generalitat of Catalonia, enabling efficient network deployment. It reduces costs, ensures compliance, and improves connectivity for public services.
Team Vision
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