Build for Billions

Build For Billions: 24-Hour Hackathon:

About The Hackathon:

Build for Billions is a 24-hour hackathon focused on creating innovative, inclusive, and scalable technology solutions that address challenges faced by billions of people. The event invites students, developers, designers, researchers, and technology enthusiasts to build solutions that leverage emerging technologies to solve real-world problems and create meaningful social impact.

Participants will explore how technology can improve accessibility, trust, privacy, digital inclusion, and public service delivery at scale.

The hackathon features three specialized tracks along with one Main Track recognizing the best projects overall.

Total Prize Pool: ₹1,00,000.

Tracks:

1. Agentic AI For Billions:

Build intelligent, autonomous, and trustworthy AI agents that solve real-world problems for individuals, communities, businesses, and public institutions.

Potential Areas Include:

• AI agents for education, healthcare, agriculture, financial inclusion, and other real-world use cases.

• Multilingual and voice-first AI assistants.

• Agents for accessibility and assistive technology.

• Autonomous workflows for public and social services.

• Responsible, explainable, and human-centered AI systems.

• Creative applications of agents for day-to-day workflows.

1. Web3 And Privacy For Billions:

Explore how decentralized technologies, cryptography, and privacy-preserving systems can empower individuals and communities while improving trust and digital ownership.

Potential Areas Include:

• Privacy-preserving identity and authentication.

• Decentralized applications for financial and social inclusion.

• Verifiable credentials and digital ownership.

• Secure data sharing and consent management.

• Blockchain solutions for transparency, trust, and accessibility.

1. Reinvent Digital Public Infrastructure For Billions:

Reimagine digital public infrastructure (DPI) to make essential services more accessible, interoperable, secure, and inclusive.

Potential Areas Include:

• Digital identity and authentication.

• Payment systems for financial inclusion.

• Data exchange and consent layers.

• Public service delivery platforms.

• Open, interoperable, and multilingual digital ecosystems.

• DPI solutions for underserved and marginalized communities.

Participants are encouraged to identify a meaningful problem, understand its users, and build a practical solution with the potential to create impact at…

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Curated listing from Unstop. Organized by National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal. RSVP happens on the organizer's page until they claim it. Run this event? [Claim it on Jamao](/e/build-for-billions/claim) to get free RSVPs, WhatsApp reminders and UPI payouts.