Garage 48 and Tallinn Universtiy Join Forces Against Human Trafficking

This September, Garage48 in collaboration with Tallinn University and the US Embassy will organise the first regional hackathon focused on matching NGOs and government officials with Estonian technologists to develop innovative solutions to tackle the challenge of Trafficking in Persons.

This September, Garage48 in collaboration with Tallinn University and the US Embassy will organise the first regional hackathon focused on matching NGOs and government officials with Estonian technologists to develop innovative solutions to tackle the challenge of Trafficking in Persons.
The problem of trafficking in persons (TIP), the trade or forced movement of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation, continues to be a vexing problem in Europe. Our concept is to 鈥渉ack鈥 the challenge of TIP by looking at whether more advanced technological solutions could be brought to bear to advance the fight against TIP.
You are welcome if you have world changing idea or you are interested in this topic and want to solve problems with IT applications. 
Theme: All ideas connected to human trafficking (web and mobile projects).
Who: IT developers, marketeers, project managers, designers, visionary entrepreneurs, NGOs and government officials. 
Why participate?
  1. Meet new people from other industries, roles and countries; 
  2. Learn more about the topic and contribute to society; 
  3. Less talk, more action and fun 

Friday, 18 September

1600    Registration and networking; coffee and tea
1645    Introduction and Opening Remarks
路             U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Levine
路             Estonian Vice Chancellor for Social Affairs Rait Kuuse
路             Facilitator/Emcee provides instructions for the weekend

1715    Framing the Challenge (TIP Panel):
路             U.S. State Department J/TIP Office, Renee Huffman
路             Panel Discussion: Estonian NGOs and Regional Participants
路             Readout of Nepal TIP Tech Camp and Video

1815    Coffee break
1830    Presentation of Ideas (90 sec)
2000    Team Formation
2100    Team Work      

Saturday, 19 September

09:00   Coffee and light breakfast.  Team work and development continues
10:00   Checkpoint #1
11:00   Mentors go around                  
13:00   Lunch
13:45   Product development
16:00   Inspirational Start-Up Story: TIP Hero from Latvia
19:00   Dinner and networking
20:00   Checkpoint #2.   Development continues. 

Sunday, 20 September

09:00   Coffee and light breakfast.  Team work and development continues
10:00   Checkpoint #3
11:00   Start preparing your product demo
13:00   Lunch
14:00   Demo practice continues
17:00   Coffee break with light meal
17:30   Final Presentations (Live streaming)
20:00   Announcement of Winners, wrap-up & bye-bye

NB! Schedule is tentative, changes are possible and likely to happen.