A highly collaborative effort between the #UnitedNations, Knowledge Foundation, DFINITY Foundation, University of Pretoria, Stellenbosch University and the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS) has come to fruition as the 2024 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) #Coding4Integrity Hackathon in #Pretoria, South Africa, concludes: KnowledgeFound.org/hackathon… After a day of inspiring opening talks, the weekend was dedicated to the coding competition where in-person and online participants tackled the challenge of enhancing and improving the code they received from our inaugural Coding4Integrity 2.0 hackathon at University of #Oxford. Coding4Integrity 2.0 challenges young developers to create AI learning environments for anti-corruption. The series features of 4 events annually, for which 2024 revolves around educational #AI & #DeComm (Decentralized Commerce). We began in Oxford a few months ago, and have come a long way in just two competitions. Finalists from our #Pretoria competition have been selected, and now have 2 weeks to "polish and perfect" their work as they compete for their share of $70,000 in #KnowledgeToken and professional #InternetComputer developer grants. Following a rigorous jurying process the winners will be announced, who then "take the baton" and continue to improve their code in order to hand it off to the next hackathon participants. Only 4 winners will be selected from the 13 team & solo finalists. Who will the winners be? Stay tuned! "Many hands make light work" -- It is never more so than today. As the "who will win?!" anticipation builds we would like to extend sincere thanks to the many who made this event not just possible, but enjoyable, especially: Bianca Kopp, Roberta Falvo, Tersia Lewis & Erick A. Ortega Rico (United Nations #UNODC) Leonardo Paradiso & Yane Frenski (#Knowledge Foundation) Lomesh Dutta, Dieter M. Sommer, Riccardo Coli, Tracy Trachsler, Chris Harrison, Moritz Fuller, Emilio Canessa, Emma Peretti & ICP Hubs! (#DFINITY) Vukosi Marivate, Nils Timm, Seani Rananga, Stacey Baror, Linda Marshall & Dino Gironi (University of Pretoria) Deresh Ramjugernath, Sibusiso Lukhele & Sibusiso Moyo (Stellenbosch University) Francesco Petruccione, René Kotzé & Belinda Viret (#NITheCS) Arjaan Buijk & Patrick Friedrich (2024 Oxford #AI winners) Ali Alojaimi, Bader Omran &  Hamad Alatawi (2024 Oxford #DeComm winners) Kavisha Pillay, Colin Chibaya & Regina Maphanga (speakers) And a special thanks to the co-directors of the Knowledge Foundation, Aaron E. Walsh, Craig Smith (Lando & Anastasi, LLP) and René Hüsler (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts). #KnowledgeFoundation #Knowken #ImmersiveEducation #EdTech #UniversityOfPretoria #StellenboschUniversity @UN @UNODC @UNODC_AC  @DFINITY @DFINITYDev  @UPTuks @StellenboschUni @NITheCS @hslu @UniofOxford @LandoAnastasi @biancakvienna1 @roberta_falvo @LeonardParadiso @yanefrenski @dominic_w @lomeshdutta @rick_coli @TracyTrachsler @CanessaEmilio @emmaperetti @vukosi @seanirananga @DereshR @petruccione This particular hackathon comes at a critical time, as we look towards the Summit of the Future that begins today at the UN Headquarters in New York with hope for UN Member States to foster international multi-stakeholder partnerships and collaborations to innovate education for the social and economic benefit of the nearly 2 Billion youth around the world. The Knowledge Foundation and Immersive Education Initiative stand ready to further this important work as we continue to advance the #EdTech revolution hand-in-hand with the world's youth. #YouthLead #UNGA79 #OurCommonFuture @UNDESA @antonioguterres @felipepaullier @UNYouthAffairs #SummitOfTheFuture #SummitoftheFuture2024 Photos courtesy Ropafadzo Chiradza (United Nations) & Nills Timm (University of Pretoria Comp Sci Dept)