IA & MEDIA HACKATHON
IA & MEDIA HACKATHON
Hackathon Media Party Buenos Aires 2023 awarded $5,000 USD in prizes
Media Party, the most important media innovation conference in Latin America, closed its 11th edition with its Hackathon: “Artificial Intelligence, News and Democracies”.
Jury
Freddy Boulton
Hugging Face
Maggie Farley
ICFJ
Ana Soffietto
MDIF
Sil Hamilton
Hacks Hackers
Gino Cingolani Trucco
Media Party
Carla Nudel
The New Republic
On Saturday, October 7 2023, Konex Cultural Center hosted this exceptional and ardent day. Activities started at 11 in the morning, with introductory presentations to the 18 Hackathon project proposals, previously uploaded by participants to Hackdash, the platform that compiles all the information on the occasion.
Teams were formed as eager participants came together, each bringing a unique set of skills and profiles to the table. These teams tirelessly worked all day long on their projects and prototypes. At 6 in the afternoon each team´s representative had the opportunity to pitch their project to an expert Jury.
The juries assessed the projects according to a number of key criteria.
These included: The alignment of the project with the central theme, its ability to address significant issues at the intersection of AI and journalism, its consideration of ethical issues, the usability of the project, the composition and structure of the team behind it, and, finally, the quality of the prototype developed.
The Winner Projects
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Demystif.AI: An easy-to-use web extension that promotes digital literacy by providing credibility and transparency indicators of news related to Artificial Intelligence, based on journalistic quality criteria.
Datos Electorales: Based on the Datos y Mapas Abiertos Project, La Izquierda Diario presented an advanced data analysis that allows users to consult metrics and patterns of one or several elections, in addition to having a Chatbot that interprets data requests.
MinorGard: An AI designed to recognize the faces of minors in live broadcasts, and anonymizes them through an automatic face-blurring system.
