The Impact Challenge: Egypt + Gaza is your chance to make a real difference! We’re calling on all innovative minds in Egyptian/Palestinian universities to showcase their most creative and impactful project ideas. Compete at the university, governorate, and national levels for a chance to win a prestigious fellowship with Holistic Intelligence for Global Good, a 20,000 EGP monetary award, and recognition as the top AI project proposal in Egyptian universities. This is more than just a competition—it's an opportunity to bring your ideas to life, gain invaluable experience, and fast-track your success in a new world defined by AI. Join us and be part of the movement that’s shaping the future for global good!

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Submit your AI project proposal HERE by October 7th for a chance to win the Impact Challenge.

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Award

The winning team at the national level will receive:

• a fellowship with Holistic Intelligence for Global Good,
• a 20,000 EGP monetary award,
• an engraved recognition plaque,
• an official certificate to each team member, and
• recognition on social media as the top AI project proposal in Egyptian universities.

Important Dates

Competition Structure

The competition consists of three rounds:

• University-level: Winners are selected as the top 10% of project proposals in their universities.
• Governorate-level: Winners are selected as the top three project proposals in their governorates.
• National-level: The winner is selected as the top project proposal in Egypt.

Evaluation Criteria

Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

1. Impact: What is the potential for significant positive impact on our society?
2. Clarity: How clearly does the proposal describe the assumptions, proposed hypothesis, method, and evaluation strategy?
3. Safety: How well does the proposal address potential for harm?
4. Substance: To what extent does the proposal reflect a deep understanding of the scientific and technical challenges?
5. Soundness: To what extent would an AI scientist agree with the claims in this proposal?
6. Feasibility: How feasible is it to implement the proposal before June 2025, given the resources discussed in the proposal?
7. Originality: How novel is the proposed application (at the local/regional/national level), and the scientific method used/proposed (at the global level)?
8. Relevance: Broadly speaking, how relevant is this proposal to the field of artificial intelligence and its applications?
9. Popularity: How many upvotes has the proposal received?

University Level

• Submission deadline: D1 (see the ‘Important Dates’ section).
• Eligibility criteria: All students enrolled in an Egyptian university are eligible to participate.
• Submission instructions: Individual students must submit their proposals by following the steps below. Groups must nominate a team lead to apply on behalf of the group.

1. Use your University’s email ending with .edu.eg (e.g., [email protected]) to log in to SeeChat x Ideas at https://seechat.ai/. Only submissions from University emails will be qualified for the competition.
2. Click ‘Think’, after describing the problem your project proposal is solving and specifying the relevant scientific areas in the input form. Make sure the idea is set to ‘Public idea’

1. We expect you to carefully curate your proposals according to our evaluation criteria. Edit the generated text to describe the project proposal in detail. (Word limit: 800 words, including the title, summary, and related work. The list of references is not included in the word limit.) Be sure to discuss:
   1. the proposed hypothesis,
   2. the proposed method,
   3. the potential impact (e.g., who may benefit from this project and how),
   4. the resources needed and how you plan to secure them (e.g., cloud compute credits),
   5. your evaluation approach.

1. Add ‘impact-challenge-egypt to the ‘Topics’ field to enroll your SeeChat x Ideas entry in the competition.

2. Post a 1-minute video on Instagram and LinkedIn. The posts should tag and shout out HIGG’s official accounts (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/holistic-intelligence-for-global-good/?viewAsMember=true, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holistic_intelligence/), with a link to the SeeChat x Ideas proposal, which starts with https://seechat.ai/idea/. The video should clearly explain the project proposal, highlighting its significance, innovative aspects, and potential impact. The video must be visually engaging and concise. The teams can either talk through the entire video, or show a prototype or slides. This step is strongly recommended but not strictly required. Feel free to solicit upvotes for your proposal on SeeChat x Ideas however you see fit.

• Evaluation process:
  1. Peer review: Each participant must provide a review (singed with their email) for at least three other proposals before D1.
     1. Use the same University email used for the submission to log in to SeeChat x Ideas at https://seechat.ai/
     2. Choose three proposals to evaluate at https://seechat.ai/topic/impact-challenge-egypt
     3. For each proposal:
        1. Read the proposal carefully.
        2. Use the upvote/downvote feature to provide an overall assessment.
        3. Click on the ‘Review’ button then:
           1. Rate each of the following aspects as Strong, Neutral, or Weak: Impact, Clarity, Safety, Substance, Soundness, Feasibility, Relevance, Originality.
           2. Write a public comment to justify the ratings.
        4. If any inappropriate reviews are seen, click the ‘Report’ button.
  2. Official review: Qualified submissions that receive a sufficiently high number of upvotes will also receive an official review by a panel of judges. For more details on how the judges will evaluate the proposal, refer to the ‘Evaluation criteria’ section.
  3. For each university with over ten participants, the top 10% of proposals will be announced as university-level winners by D2 (see ‘Important Dates’).
• Announcement of winners:
  1. University-level winners will be announced on D2.
  2. Winners will be announced via email and posted on social media platforms.
  3. University-level winners will qualify for the Governorate-level competition.

Governorate Level

• Submission deadline: D3 (see the ‘Important Dates’ section).
• Eligibility criteria: Only the announced winners at the university level are eligible to enter the governorate-level round. Additionally, each winner needs to form a team of two to four members (including the person who made the initial submission).
• Submission instructions:
• Evaluation process: In addition to the criteria used at the university level, consideration will be given to how much progress the team has already made by D3.
• Announcement of winners:

National Level

• Submission deadline: D5 (see the ‘Important Dates’ section).
• Eligibility criteria: Only the announced winners at the governorate-level will be eligible to enter the national round.

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