Web3 Hackathon Puerto Rico 2.0 is the second edition of efforts to promote the adoption of Web3 technologies in Puerto Rico, this time we are collaborating with The Opportunity Project (TOP), and there will be a set of challenges for participants to design and create innovative products that could potentially expand the public's interest in the Web3 space and support social infrastructure within Puerto Rico.

Challenge #1

Blockchain based solutions for Puerto Rico’s Data: Climate Change

Teams must create a data-driven blockchain-based solution to help governmental agencies and members of the public visualize both the risks of climate change to their communities and the impacts of implementing mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Original Problem Statement:  

Building Community and Individual Climate Resilience

End user: Emergency managers and elected officials, as well as city planners, transportation officials, public health authorities, individuals, households, NGOs serving them, others involved in planning.

Government Agency Resources: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Challenge #2

Helping Communities Access Infrastructure Grant Funding

Create blockchain-based digital tools that use open data to help Non-profits, community leaders and/or governmental agencies navigate potential grant opportunities enabled by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and other major initiatives to optimize the use of their limited staff resources and enable them to better plan for upcoming opportunities

Original Problem Statement:

Helping Communities Access Infrastructure Grant Funding

End-User: Lower-resourced local governments seeking competitive Federal grant funding. Specific examples of offices/users include mayoral offices, community leaders, county administrators, and state agency representatives.

Government Agency Resources: White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, U.S. Department of Commerce

Challenge #3

Web3 Solutions for Learning and Wellbeing

Teams must create a blockchain-based application designed specifically for Puerto Rican children and youth that promotes resilience and communal well-being

Original Problem Statement:

End user: Children and youth, parents, educators, community-based organizations, and other service providers in Puerto Rico.

Government Agency Resources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud

It is also highly suggested to include the use of federal data to inform the solution that will be created, here you can find TOP Datasets: https://opportunity.census.gov/data/

• Challenge Objective
  The submission is addressing the challenge by using relevant data, with significant awareness of the end-user and well-thought-out resource management.
• Originality / Uniqueness
  Has this project been done before? Is it unique?
• Technicality
  How difficult is the problem you're solving? How many moving parts? Did you build it efficiently? Did you give it too many moving parts? How clean is the code?
• User Experience / Aesthetics
  How useable is your project? Does it look nice? Does it accomplish what it's set out to do in an easy to use and approachable way?
• Practicality
  Is this something people will want to use? Does this have business value? Is this something that could grow and have a mass following?
• Presentation
  How good was the project presentation?