COVID-19 has revealed limits of the systems we take for granted, compromising our health, our planet, and our survival. We’ve expanded the 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge to take on COVID-19. Developers and problem solvers: join us to build open source solutions to make an immediate and lasting impact.

Why focus on COVID-19?

The COVID-19 pandemic poses not only a huge health concern to people - particularly the immunocompromised and elderly - but it also has had huge effects in uprooting societies and disrupting supply chains globally. We’re asking the world's developers and subject matter experts to help tackle this pandemic by increasing awareness through communications. CallforCode and IBM are seeking coding solutions that can provide: 

1. Immediate crisis communication;
2. Enhanced remote education; OR
3. Stronger community cooperation.

Call for Code asks innovators to create practical, effective, and high-quality applications based on one or more IBM Cloud™ services (for  example, web, mobile, data, analytics, AI, IoT, or weather) that can have an immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues. Teams of  developers, data scientists, designers, business analysts, subject matter experts and more are challenged to build solutions to mitigate the  impact of COVID-19 and climate change. 

This year the competition will have two tracks. One track is for solutions that help halt and reverse the impact of climate change. The  second track is for solutions to mitigate the impact of global pandemics like COVID-19 on communities around the world. Winning  solutions are deployed in communities that need the most help.

Deadline is July 31st, 2020.