Coaching Program
Open Seventeen Spring 2019
Open Seventeen is a prize-backed challenge to reward and invest in those developing innovative and implementable projects that leverage OPEN DATA and CROWDSOURCING to tackle the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This challenge targets “SDG #4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”. This edition of O17 is inspired by the Geneva Trialogue, organized by University of Geneva, the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and XuetangX, China’s leading MOOC platform.
Application Deadline
starts the week of
March 30, 2018
Course Ends on
April 26, 2018
Course Description
The coaching program is designed to help you take a project from idea to implementation and to scale. It is a hands-on, learning and mentoring program to help you design and implement solutions to a public interest problem using civic technology. At the ends of the program you should have a:
Clear understanding of the problem you are trying to solve and its underlying causes; Compelling theory of change and a solution narrowly tailored to fit the problem; Strategy to engage with people and data; Prototype of your solution and the roadmap to user-test it; Clear and persuading pitch of your project.
Course Format
5 2-hour long online sessions and offline one-on-one coaching sessions with each team