About Youth Can Do IT
Youth Can Do I.T. is a youth empowerment organization that is geared towards equipping and empowering youth with the right skills and tools needed to turn their dreams into reality.
YCDI seeks to equip people with the right skills and tools to turn their dreams into reality; changing their self-doubt into unshakable confidence, belief in themselves and believe they can be creators.
Girls in ICT Competition
About The Program
In celebration of International Girls in ICT Day, YCDI presents #iamWITy.
#iamWITy is a tech immersive competition for high school and university female students who will come together in teams to create a solution around this year’s theme:
DIGITAL INCLUSION USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The team participants will have a unique opportunity to have a mentor to support their ideation alongside weekly online workshops,over a four week period, between March 23- April 17, 2020 in preparation for the competition finals on April 23, 2020.
This year's workshops will be focusing on 4 main areas
CHATBOTS
Providing access to information with chatbots
IMAGE RECOGNITION
Seeing the world with image recognition
BLOCKCHAIN
Authenticity and integrity with blockchain
MACHINE LEARNING
Seeing the world with machine learning
Competition Timeline
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Registration Opens March 11, 2020
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Registration Closes March 19, 2020
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Mentor Assignment March 20, 2020
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Workshops Begin March 23, 2020
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Workshop Ends April 17, 2020
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Preliminary Submissions April 20, 2020
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Girls in ICT Competition Day April 23, 2020
Point System
Problem [30%] - What issue are you targeting?
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Feasibility/Practicality
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Justification
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Social Impact
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Commercial Viability
Solution [40%] - What are you doing to fix it?
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Uniqueness
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Execution
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Technical Demonstration of Completeness
Presentation [30%] - How are you going to present the solution?
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Clarity
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Tools, Flow & Content
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Engagement/Delivery
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