Applications call for WHO Reboot Health & Wellbeing Challenge 2020. The program is the joint initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF.

Challenge

In this WHO Reboot Health & Wellbeing Challenge 2020, Participants use their bright minds and entrepreneurial skills to address one of the urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safe. The range of possible health innovation solutions that may be submitted include:

• Apps or games.
• Wearables, digital technologies, tools or platforms, products.
• The creation or improvement of products, services, processes.
• New approaches to collaboration or communication, or new ways of engaging young people and/or other stakeholders.
• Policy reform proposals.

Benefits 

The WHO will mention the winners and their proposals on the WHO public website and also invites to attend an award ceremony at WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2020 (date and other details TBC). In addition to that, the WHO will cover the expenses of flights and accommodation in accordance with its rules and procedures, for up to three winners (one individual representative of each winning proposal).

Eligibilities 

Individuals and groups of up to four (4) individuals are invited to respond to the challenge by submitting a proposed solution to the challenge. There are no age restrictions. One individual or group of individuals can submit only one submission. Submissions must be own personal capacity of the candidate and not as a representative of an organization.

Submissions are open globally, but the submissions that demonstrate respect for gender diversity and involvement of young people that have exposure to, affected by or living with the issue/risk/disease/condition in the development of the respective solution will have priority.

Application 

The submission to WHO Reboot Health & Wellbeing Challenge 2020 may happen between 4 March 2020 at 10 am and 15 April 2020 at 11:59 PM (all times are New York, USA time), and must include:

• A one-page short description of the idea, solutions or tool (max 400 words)
• A video of the participants explaining the solution (max 2 minutes)
• An online working solution or prototype of the tool (preferred), or a video of it in action (max 2 minutes).
• Source code of the solution (This refers to computer programs, data files, and other electronic files to make the tool or solution work. These files should be hosted in a publicly accessible repository on the Internet (e.g. GitHub, bitbucket or similar)).
• Only original, open-source work is eligible; however, the solution may also make use of other existing open-source libraries.
• (OPTIONAL) If the submission is a policy reform proposal, you may submit an additional document. However, the one-page short description (point 1 above) must contain all the key aspects of the proposal.
• Submissions must in any of the six official UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).
• Read the Application Rules for more.

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