The Macau youth team that won the gold award in the Coding4Integrity Asian Youth Anti-Corruption Hackathon” was recently invited to Doha, Qatar to present their winning digital anti-corruption solution at a special event of the Conference of the State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
In addition, they also achieved excellent results in another international digital anti-corruption solution design competition held there, according to Macau’s Commission Against Corruption (CCAC).
Members of the Macau Team – Sam Ka Lok, Loi Nga Hei and Cai Pei Jun – went to Doha from 14 to 18 December. On the first two days, they first participated in the digital anti-corruption solution design competition “Hackathon of Hackathons” organised by the Global Resource for Anti-Corruption Education and Youth Empowerment (GRACE) of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Knowledge Foundation where they competed and exchanged with winning teams of digital anti-corruption solution design competitions from around the world.
A total of 13 teams, which included the Macau Team, had to build an initial learning platform and teaching tools on anti-corruption topics. Eventually, the Macao Team, with its intellect and creativity, was selected as one of the super teams by the organisers, which will assist and participate in the development of AI teaching tools by the UNODC in the future.
Furthermore, based on its outstanding performance, the Macao Team was elected as the best team by other participating teams, which fully demonstrates that the capability of Macau’s young people have gained international and peer affirmation, the commission has pointed out.
Subsequently, at the special event “Youth Engagement x InTECHgrity: Leading the Way to Cleaner Futures” of the Conference of the States Parties to the UNCAC held on 17 December, the Macao Team introduced its digital anti-corruption solution which won the gold award in the “Coding4Integrity Asian Youth Anti-Corruption Hackathon” to anti-corruption experts and representatives from different places and shared what they learned and experienced during the course of the competition, which was highly commended by the participants.
Source and Photo: CCAC
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