Eligible Regions: 7 regions:(i) North America, (ii) Latin America, (iii) the Asia Pacific, (iv) India, (v) Sub Saharan Africa, (vi) Middle East/North Africa, and (vii) Europe.
About the Award: To enter this challenge, use at least one Facebook developer product to build applications that help bring communities together. You might decide to craft an awesome Messenger experience, help community leaders strengthen and grow their audience, or integrate your own technology with Facebook’s large reach.
In addition, bonus prizes are available for exceptional solutions that fit into the community categories that (i) bridge on and offline experiences, (ii) build and grow community, or (iii) drive engaging communities.
Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to build community. We know that innovation can come from people of all backgrounds, from all kinds of places. So, we want to invite you, developers, to join us in this journey by building software applications that strive towards this mission.
Type: Entrepreneurship, Contest
Eligibility:
- Build software applications that help bring communities together and use at least one Facebook developer product.
- To compete for optional bonus prizes, developers are invited to build solutions across one of the three community categories (i) bridge on and offline experiences; (ii) build and grow community; and (iii) drive engaging communities.
- First Place – Global Round: $30,000 USD
- Second Place – Global Round: $20,000 USD
- Third Place – Global Round: $10,000 USD
- Best Pre-Existing, Updated Solution – Global Round: $7,000 USD
- First Place – Regional Round (7): $7,500 USD awarded in each region
- Second Place – Regional Round (7): $5,000 USD awarded in each region
- Third Place – Regional Round (7): $3,500 USD awarded in each region
- Best Pre-Existing, Updated Solution – Regional Round (7): $3,000 USD awarded in each region
- Bonus Prize: Best solution to Bridge on and offline experiences: $10,000 USD
- Bonus Prize: Best solution to Build and grow community: $10,000 USD
- Bonus Prize: Best solution to Drive engaging communities: $10,000 USD
How to Apply: Submit the Following:
- Demo video. (hosted on YouTube, Vimeo, or Youku). Your video should be around 2 minutes, including a demo of your working application via a step-by-step visual demo, and be available in English. Be sure to explain how the Facebook products used enhances the experience of your solution!
- Images. Please submit at least one image/screenshot of your application.
- Access. A way to access your working application for judging and testing by providing a mobile test build, a link to a live website, or a demo site where the application is deployed.
- Register for the hackathon on Devpost.
- Build software applications that help build community and incorporate at least one Facebook developer product.
- Submit solutions to your region (North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, India, Sub Saharan Africa, Middle East/North Africa, Europe) by selecting your region on the submission form.
- If you build a solution that fits a specific community theme, select the bonus prize category on your submission form. You will be required to explain how your solution fits the community’s needs.
- Create a video about two minutes long that demonstrates your solution’s features and functionality.
Award Providers: Facebook
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