Successful Models of Hackathons and Innovation Contests to Crowdsource Rapid Responses to COVID-19

Gama, Kiev

doi:10.1145/3431806

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“…Despite the fact that the stages in each of these models differ, they are all very similar. It is, however, important to plan digital contests carefully because organizers must provide funding and support as well as the technological tools they need in order to run the competition [12,26].…”

Section: Digital Innovation Contests and Hackathon Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hackathons for Driving Service Innovation Strategies: The Evolution of a Digital Platform-Based Ecosystem

Kamariotou

Kitsios²

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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Despite the fact that hackathons and digital innovation contests have emerged as substantial intermediaries in open innovation and entrepreneurship, knowledge about how hackathons and digital innovation contests impact innovation in cities is restricted. There is also a scarcity of models that aid in the organization of digital innovation contests. Based on the existing frameworks for contest organizations, the aim of this article is to present a case study which develops a framework for hosting and evaluating open data hackathons. The hackathon framework is developed from the organizer’s viewpoint, and it has been executed in three digital innovation competitions in Thessaloniki. The suggested scheme adds new knowledge to the field of open data and digital innovation competitions while also providing practitioners with opportunities to host digital contests. Moreover, this framework offers hackathon organizers with regulations and resources to help them plan innovation contests that contribute to the betterment of an open data ecosystem.

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Section: Digital Innovation Contests and Hackathon Preparationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hackathons for Driving Service Innovation Strategies: The Evolution of a Digital Platform-Based Ecosystem

Kamariotou

Kitsios²

2022

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…Further, it is difficult to connect these stakeholder groups and synthesize learnings from the data innovation ecosystem at large, as it is highly fragmented (The GovLab, 2021). Existing research is disparate and often focuses on a specific type of innovation (Ahmed et al, 2020), model (Angarita and Nolte, 2020), or initiative (Gama, 2021). As the pandemic continues to be an emerging threat, and innovators and organizers attempt to rapidly respond to growing needs, even less is understood about the innovation ecosystem's role in the context of COVID-19.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Responding to the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic with innovative data use: The role of data challenges

Danemayer

Young

Green³

et al. 2023

Data & Policy

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Innovative, responsible data use is a critical need in the global response to the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Yet potentially impactful data are often unavailable to those who could utilize it, particularly in data-poor settings, posing a serious barrier to effective pandemic mitigation. Data challenges, a public call-to-action for innovative data use projects, can identify and address these specific barriers. To understand gaps and progress relevant to effective data use in this context, this study thematically analyses three sets of qualitative data focused on/based in low/middle-income countries: (a) a survey of innovators responding to a data challenge, (b) a survey of organizers of data challenges, and (c) a focus group discussion with professionals using COVID-19 data for evidence-based decision-making. Data quality and accessibility and human resources/institutional capacity were frequently reported limitations to effective data use among innovators. New fit-for-purpose tools and the expansion of partnerships were the most frequently noted areas of progress. Discussion participants identified building capacity for external/national actors to understand the needs of local communities can address a lack of partnerships while de-siloing information. A synthesis of themes demonstrated that gaps, progress, and needs commonly identified by these groups are relevant beyond COVID-19, highlighting the importance of a healthy data ecosystem to address emerging threats. This is supported by data holders prioritizing the availability and accessibility of their data without causing harm; funders and policymakers committed to integrating innovations with existing physical, data, and policy infrastructure; and innovators designing sustainable, multi-use solutions based on principles of good data governance.

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic, which is one of the largest medical disasters since the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, has brought about social and economic effects across the world, in addition to the irreparable losses of hundreds of thousands of deaths. Many efforts, funded by public, corporate, and non-governmental groups, were launched using innovation platforms (IPs) like contests, hackathons, and crowdsourcing techniques to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic's consequences (Bolton et al, 2021;Braune et al, 2021;Desai et al, 2020;Freeman et al, 2020;Gama, 2020;Vermicelli et al,2020). These open initiatives lead to not only successful innovations but also effective approaches in an economic downturn such as the current pandemic period (Ahn et al, 2018;Chesbrough and Garman, 2009;Chesbrough, 2020;Di Minin et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

An Idea Evaluation Phase in Online Communities: A Case on the COVID-19 Innovation Platform

Çubukcu,

Akarçay Pervin,

Boz

et al. 2023

JOSI

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The COVID-19 pandemic has not only created public health issues but also sectoral problems and economic crises. As a response to this unexpected phenomenon, online communities have also started initiatives to tackle it. One of these initiatives was carried out in Turkey. Innovative project ideas were gathered from entrepreneurs and potential contributors regarding the problems brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program occurred over three months (April 2020 to June 2020) through an open innovation platform in Turkey. The scope of this program is to collect business ideas from entrepreneurs and potential contributors, mature ideas with mentors and other entrepreneurs, and select the best ones by jury. In the process of evaluating the ideas, the weighted sum method (WSM) was used by the jury. The main purpose of this study is to reveal the effectiveness of the WSM via online communities in the idea evaluation phase. To demonstrate how this, we implemented different multi-criterion decision-making (MCDM) methods to the decision matrix dataset. We compare the results of WSM to those of the other two well-known (TOPSIS and VIKOR) MCDM methods. Besides, we conducted regression and sensitivity analysis to further clarify the differences between the results. Thereafter, we combine the rankings obtained from three MCDM methods by applying three aggregation methods as a compromise solution for the final decision. We find that the decision-makers can use WSM, TOPSIS, VIKOR, and aggregation methods separately according to the criterion weighting and the level of confidence in the scoring of the alternatives.

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Successful Models of Hackathons and Innovation Contests to Crowdsource Rapid Responses to COVID-19

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Hackathons for Driving Service Innovation Strategies: The Evolution of a Digital Platform-Based Ecosystem

Hackathons for Driving Service Innovation Strategies: The Evolution of a Digital Platform-Based Ecosystem

Responding to the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic with innovative data use: The role of data challenges

An Idea Evaluation Phase in Online Communities: A Case on the COVID-19 Innovation Platform

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