The 2024 Presidential Hackathon’s domestic competition received an enthusiastic response with 163 innovative proposals. After intense preliminary and secondary reviews, ten teams were selected as finalists.

The Ministry of Digital Affairs (the MODA) co-organized the second workshop for the 2024 Presidential Hackathon. Each team will showcase the practical results of this workshop during the final review. The selected five outstanding teams will be invited to the Presidential Office, where the President will personally present the awards. These winning projects will receive government support to turn their proposals into practice, fostering Taiwan’s innovation ecosystem.

Vice President Bi-khim Hsiao, along with Vice Premier Li-chiun Cheng, the convener of the Presidential Hackathon Committee, and Representatives from other agencies, including those from five branches (Yuan), attended to show support for the competing teams. They listened to presentations from the ten finalist teams. All teams addressed this year’s theme, “Aging Together in Good Health,” combining different professional fields to demonstrate the diversity of cross-domain innovation.

Minister Yennun Huang, the Executive Director of the Presidential Hackathon’s Committee from the MODA joined the workshop in person to observe and support the progress of each team’s project. The MODA pointed out that the Presidential Hackathon is not just a competition but also an experimental field demonstrating how technology can solve social problems, and the Ministry looks forward to seeing the future development of these proposals.

MODA stated that each proposal is a seed of social innovation. To help each seed to sprout and grow, the competition arranges expert advisors to assist teams, fostering brainstorming and refining innovative and feasible solutions.

MODA further explained that beyond the expert guidance, the hackathon encourages teams to use open government data. To meet each team’s data requirements, the MODA facilitated collaborations with relevant authorities to provide the data needed, deepening the practical application of each proposal.

The 2024 Presidential Hackathon domestic track is organized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, co-hosted by the MODA, focused on the Aging Together in Good Health theme. It called upon hackers from government agencies and the private sector to utilize open data and innovative technology to propose new solutions for social issues.