{"id":14735,"date":"2021-05-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/?p=14735"},"modified":"2023-06-23T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T14:35:05","slug":"responsible-production-green-consumption-call4code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/data-science\/responsible-production-green-consumption-call4code\/","title":{"rendered":"Responsible Production and Green Consumption: How to Find a Sustainable Path forward and Avoid Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Current approaches to water, food, and production need to be reverse-engineered worldwide to achieve real sustainability for the global population. ICT technology provides the foundation on which to build disruptive solutions that will change the world forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This change can be called a digital transformation: teams can build ingenious, disruptive solutions based on an ICT foundation. These solutions will be available to the whole world, thanks to a Cloud-based deployment. Artificial Intelligence will handle the more challenging, data-hungry feeds, allowing decision makers and private citizens to make the best possible decisions around sustainability issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The systems that produce food and water, and the industry that sustains ten billion people all need to undergo a worldwide process of re-engineering. People and organizations need to organize themselves in a new, interlinked way to allow the human race<\/a> to live long and prosper! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, technology may prove to be an important part of the cure for what ails us. Even better, you can be part of that cure. Join the IBM Call for Code Global Challenge 2021 NOW!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t

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  1. Technology at the service of the Planet<\/a>
  2. The idea<\/a>
  3. Featured tutorials<\/a>
  4. Watson Discovery<\/a>
  5. Kubernetes<\/a>
  6. New Relic<\/a>
  7. Cloudant<\/a>
  8. Web scraping<\/a>
  9. Fastify<\/a>
  10. Data sets<\/a>
  11. NGO documents<\/a>
  12. Step 1: Join the community<\/a>
  13. Step 2: Access the resources<\/a>
  14. Step 3: Get connected<\/a>
  15. Step 4: Submit your solution<\/a><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n

    Technology at the service of the Planet<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    On our webinar to introduce the 2021 Call for Code Global Challenge<\/a>, Georges-Henri Moll, distinguished Data Scientist at IBM, and Xavier Rey-Robert, Developer Advocate at IBM, demonstrate how to view open data in a Node.js dashboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Their example shows the process for locating polluted waters, while Xavier Rey-Robert goes on to explain how to build a Node.js dashboard for an earthquake alert system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These tutorials are taken from the starter kits for the 2021 Call for Code<\/a>. If you are curious to learn more, or to discover how to take full advantage of this opportunity, don’t miss it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    IBM is part of the 2021 Call for Code Global Challenge, based on the Seventeen Substainable Development Goals<\/a> of the UN. The Call for Code focuses on teams involved in developing solutions that will change the planet’s life – and perhaps your life too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The community is a huge one: over 400,000 developers in 179 Countries have participated, creating in excess of 15,000 applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Participate in a team, devise a solution, and compete to have a chance to win $200,000 and receive comprehensive support to deploy your solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Call for Code initiative offers you the opportunity to build and contribute to sustainable, open-source technology projects<\/a> that address social and humanitarian issues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Call for Code is different from other Tech for Good initiatives in that the top solutions are deployed in the real world, making a demonstrable difference in communities with the greatest need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The 2021 edition presents your creative mind with three different challenges – all you have to do is choose the best fit for you. The challenges focus on: zero hunger, clean water and sanitation<\/a>, and responsible production\/green consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    IBM has been sponsored this initiative for a long time and continues to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What are you waiting for? Be part of the fun, pick the challenge that is right for you, and build your skills whilst also creating meaningful change! The most direct way to get involved with Call for Code is by forming a team and competing in the Global Challenge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If your current schedule does not allow you to be part of a team, you can help by contributing code to existing open-source projects instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Pillars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Competing in a global challenge offers every participant a huge bonus – the chance to understand how each step of a large project is realised. This deepens many individual competencies and broadens participants’ overall perspective. Anyone can create a winning solution! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Open-Source, community-driven environments provide a strong foundations for digital projects today. Every international project draws on a solid network of communities and components to maximum advantage. Based on such strong foundations, robust environments can easily be developed with the help of a rich infrastructure, such as that of IBM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Every competitor’s goal is to win, and this is equally true of the Call For Code Global Challenge 2021. Broader horizons are an important take-away for every participant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Then of course, there’s the chance that participation might launch a developer to international prominence and worldwide visibility, whether by winning or simply participating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    A path to Responsible Computing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Responsibility – it’s a hugely important point. This year, Call for Code is tackling the imminent and existential threat to Planet Earth: climate change. As the United Nations<\/a> says, \u201cThe impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Without drastic action today, adapting to these impacts in the future will be more difficult and costly.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rashik Parnar, a technologist working in IBM for about 40 years, has been involved with the Call for Code Global Challenge several years as both a judge and a mentor. Rashik and his fellow technologists view using tech for good, as well as responsible computing, as the path forward to a better future for our world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Rashik supports Call for Code teams with his expertise, helping them unleash their potential impact, and has this to say: “Whether you want to build new skills to carry forward into your professional career, meet a worldwide community of innovators, or inscribe your code on a transformative solution that effectively combats climate change, the time to answer the call is now! Join Call for Code and be part of the solution. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    LikeBee, optimizing plastic use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Plastic is a big part of production processes all over the world. Every macro-region is pursuing ways to lower the impact of all kinds of plastics on the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Finding a way to lower the impact of plastic is very important – this family of materials makes a large contribution to climate change. By 2050, the carbon footprint of plastic is expected to account for a full fifteen percent of the global annual carbon budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    One of the Regional Winners of the 2020 Call for Code Challenge, LikeBee from Brazil, has good news for us: recycling can save energy and reduce plastic-related carbon emissions. This team created LikeBee to help consumers become more conscious of the positive impact they can have on reducing plastics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The team developed an intelligent recycling bin, associated with its own app: this complete solution records a user’s recycling activity and offers digital discount coupons, based on the level of activity achieved, that can be used at stores in the LikeBee network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Delving deep into the Production Challenge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    The current use of natural resources is unsustainable. The global material footprint rose nearly eighteen percent – from\u202f73\u202fbillion metric tons in 2010 to 85.9 billion metric tons – in 2017. These numbers come from a UN report that also establishes seventeen essential goals to be achieved in relation to climate change. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    In particular, Goal Twelve aims to achieve economic growth and sustainable development, while reducing our ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume goods and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Technology can help responsible production and green consumption in many ways, from recommendations on energy efficiency to highlighting the carbon footprint of online purchases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The goal of the Production Challenge<\/a> is to take into account all phases of resource use, so that we can do more and better with less. This challenge might involve integrating many pieces of technology to create a single solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n