
What is Call for Code?
Call for Code calls on innovators to create practical, effective, and high-quality applications based on one or more IBM Cloud™ services (for example, web, mobile, data, analytics, AI, IoT, or weather) that can have an immediate and lasting impact on humanitarian issues.
Teams of developers, data scientists, designers, business analysts, subject matter experts and more are challenged to build solutions that foster water sustainability, energy sustainability, and natural disaster resiliency. Winning solutions are deployed in communities that need the most help.
Prizes
Grand prize winner
- $200,000 USD cash prize
- Invitation to the Call for Code Global Award Announcement
- Open source project support from The Linux Foundation
- Opportunity for mentorship and investment in the solution
- Solution implementation support through Code and Response™
First and second runner up
- $25,000 USD cash prize
- Invitation to the Call for Code Global Award Announcement
- Open source project support from The Linux Foundation
Third and fourth runner up
- $10,000 USD cash prize
- Invitation to the Call for Code Global Award Announcement
- Open source project support from The Linux Foundation
Challenge timeline

What will you build?
See how you can create an application that makes an immediate and lasting impact in communities around the world by using AI, IoT, and the latest open source development platforms.
Further Details and application
Visit the Call for Code Site