CALL FOR CODE
ABOUT CALL FOR CODE

Call for Code was launched by UN Human Rights, with an assist from French President Emmanuel Macron and IBM at the VivaTech Conference in Paris in 2018. As the Founding Partner of Call for Code, IBM committed 55 million dollars to the initiative in the first year.

Over the last five years Call for Code has grown into the largest engagement of developers in history, with annual participation from innovators  from over 180 Nations -creating over 24,000 apps to date.

The annual Call for Code Global Challenge is a call-to-action to the 24 million developers around the world to use their skills and mastery of the latest technologies to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. 
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ABOUT CALL FOR CODE

The Call for Code Global Initiative is the Largest Engagement of Developers in History, with Developers from 165 Nations Participating.

Developers have revolutionized the way people live and interact with virtually everyone and everything. Where most people see challenges, developers see possibilities. That’s why David Clark Cause created and launched Call for Code with UN Human Rights, and why technology giant IBM pledged 30 million dollars to the initiative and became the Founding Partner. This initiative is a call-to-action to the 24 million developers around the world to use their skills and mastery of the latest technologies, to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges and drive positive and long-lasting change across the world with their code. The initiative was launched with an assist from French President Macron and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty at The VivaTech Conference in Paris in 2018.
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CALL FOR CODE

The Call for Code Global Initiative is the Largest Engagement of Developers in History, with Developers from 165 Nations Participating.

Developers have revolutionized the way people live and interact with virtually everyone and everything. Where most people see challenges, developers see possibilities. That’s why David Clark Cause created and launched Call for Code with UN Human Rights, and why technology giant IBM pledged 30 million dollars to the initiative and became the Founding Partner. This initiative is a call-to-action to the 24 million developers around the world to use their skills and mastery of the latest technologies, to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges and drive positive and long-lasting change across the world with their code. The initiative was launched with an assist from French President Macron and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty at The VivaTech Conference in Paris in 2018.
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CALL FOR CODE
GLOBAL CHALLENGE

At the core of the initiative is the Call for Code Global Challenge, a 4-month long global competition where teams comprised of developers, human rights experts and other specialists develop solutions to solve for some of the world’s toughest challenges. The annual Call for Code Global Challenge is promoted by the United Nations, a global coalition of tech companies including IBM and The Linux Foundation, sponsors, celebrities and supporting organizations that results in submissions from virtually every country around the world. The Call for Code Global Challenge winning team takes home the Call for Code Global Prize, receives $200,000 at the annual Call for Code Global Prize event at the United Nations in New York and perhaps more importantly has the opportunity to partner with IBM to develop and deploy their solution around the world. The eminent jury that selects the winning team is comprised of a former US President, leaders from the United Nations, industry experts and coding icons. The Call for Code Global Prize is referred to as “The Nobel Prize for Developers.”
CALL FOR CODE
GLOBAL CHALLENGE

At the core of the initiative is the Call for Code Global Challenge, a 4-month long global competition where teams comprised of developers, human rights experts and other specialists develop solutions to solve for some of the world’s toughest challenges. The annual Call for Code Global Challenge is promoted by the United Nations, a global coalition of tech companies including IBM and The Linux Foundation, sponsors, celebrities and supporting organizations that results in submissions from virtually every country around the world. The Call for Code Global Challenge winning team takes home the Call for Code Global Prize, receives $200,000 at the annual Call for Code Global Prize event at the United Nations in New York and perhaps more importantly has the opportunity to partner with IBM to develop and deploy their solution around the world. The eminent jury that selects the winning team is comprised of a former US President, leaders from the United Nations, industry experts and coding icons. The Call for Code Global Prize is referred to as “The Nobel Prize for Developers.”
UNITED NATIONS
HUMAN RIGHTS

Call for Code Charitable Partner UN Human Rights represents the world's commitment to universal ideals of human dignity. They represent human rights issues for the 193 Member States of the United Nations, and thus have a unique mandate from the international community to promote and protect human rights for all.
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UNITED NATIONS
HUMAN RIGHTS

Call for Code Charitable Partner UN Human Rights represents the world's commitment to universal ideals of human dignity. They represent human rights issues for the 193 Member States of the United Nations, and thus have a unique mandate from the international community to promote and protect human rights for all.
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UNITED NATIONS
HUMAN RIGHTS

Call for Code Charitable Partner UN Human Rights represents the world's commitment to universal ideals of human dignity. They represent human rights issues for the 193 Member States of the United Nations, and thus have a unique mandate from the international community to promote and protect human rights for all.
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THE INSPIRATION

In 2017 news of malicious hacking around the world was rampant, and David Clark was unsettled by how much power individual rouge developers had to disrupt elections and sew confusion and chaos on such a massive scale. Clark understood for the first time how much potential power and impact developers had. 

OPPORTUNITY TO
REPOSITION DEVELOPERS

Clark realized these rogue developers were not representative of the developer community at large and were giving law abiding coders a bad name. The power, reach, and ingenuity these rogue developers possessed made him wonder—what if these skills were used to innovate for good? What if we could change the narrative about developers and create a ground-breaking initiative that celebrated developers, ones who helped solve social issues? 

That sparked an idea. With that much creative power working independently, what would happen if a “Justice League for Good” could be created, where millions of creative developers could be inspired to work together for a common purpose, to create software solutions for some of the biggest social challenges of our time. With that inspiration, the multi-year Call for Code Global Initiative was created to tap into the awesome power and potential of the millions of developers around the world by inspiring them to use their skills to become agents of positive change and help people in need. 

The Call for Code Global Initiative aims to propel developers on uncharted quests to solve the world’s most challenging problems using innovative technology solutions.
THE INSPIRATION

In 2017 news of malicious hacking around the world was rampant, and David Clark was unsettled by how much power individual rouge developers had to disrupt elections and sew confusion and chaos on such a massive scale. Clark understood for the first time how much potential power and impact developers had. 

OPPORTUNITY TO
REPOSITION DEVELOPERS

Clark realized these rogue developers were not representative of the developer community at large and were giving law abiding coders a bad name. The power, reach, and ingenuity these rogue developers possessed made him wonder—what if these skills were used to innovate for good? What if we could change the narrative about developers and create a ground-breaking initiative that celebrated developers, ones who helped solve social issues? 

That sparked an idea. With that much creative power working independently, what would happen if a “Justice League for Good” could be created, where millions of creative developers could be inspired to work together for a common purpose, to create software solutions for some of the biggest social challenges of our time. With that inspiration, the multi-year Call for Code Global Initiative was created to tap into the awesome power and potential of the millions of developers around the world by inspiring them to use their skills to become agents of positive change and help people in need. 

The Call for Code Global Initiative aims to propel developers on uncharted quests to solve the world’s most challenging problems using innovative technology solutions.
THE INSPIRATION

In 2017 news of malicious hacking around the world was rampant, and David Clark was unsettled by how much power individual rouge developers had to disrupt elections and sew confusion and chaos on such a massive scale. Clark understood for the first time how much potential power and impact developers had. 

OPPORTUNITY TO REPOSITION DEVELOPERS

Clark realized these rogue developers were not representative of the developer community at large and were giving law abiding coders a bad name. The power, reach, and ingenuity these rogue developers possessed made him wonder—what if these skills were used to innovate for good? What if we could change the narrative about developers and create a ground-breaking initiative that celebrated developers, ones who helped solve social issues? 

That sparked an idea. With that much creative power working independently, what would happen if a “Justice League for Good” could be created, where millions of creative developers could be inspired to work together for a common purpose, to create software solutions for some of the biggest social challenges of our time. With that inspiration, the multi-year Call for Code Global Initiative was created to tap into the awesome power and potential of the millions of developers around the world by inspiring them to use their skills to become agents of positive change and help people in need. 

The Call for Code Global Initiative aims to propel developers on uncharted quests to solve the world’s most challenging problems using innovative technology solutions.
GLOBAL SCALE

To galvanize that many developers, Clark knew he would need to create a powerful coalition of organizations and stakeholders to inspire the tech community into action. After convincing the United Nations that Call for Code had tremendous potential to address social challenges on a global scale, he knew he needed to find a purpose driven company with global reach to be an authentic “Founding Partner,” that would also see the need to rebrand and elevate developers as the “change agents they are.” After a careful international search and selection process, Clark felt IBM fit the bill perfectly, and with the support of the UN, he reached out to their senior management who felt the global scale of Call for Code was audacious, but as the company that literally helped put a man on the moon, they felt it was possible, timely and relevant. IBM immediately understood the humanitarian impact developers can have, and how Call for Code could positively position and impact their business.
GLOBAL SCALE

To galvanize that many developers, Clark knew he would need to create a powerful coalition of organizations and stakeholders to inspire the tech community into action. After convincing the United Nations that Call for Code had tremendous potential to address social challenges on a global scale, he knew he needed to find a purpose driven company with global reach to be an authentic “Founding Partner,” that would also see the need to rebrand and elevate developers as the “change agents they are.” After a careful international search and selection process, Clark felt IBM fit the bill perfectly, and with the support of the UN, he reached out to their senior management who felt the global scale of Call for Code was audacious, but as the company that literally helped put a man on the moon, they felt it was possible, timely and relevant. IBM immediately understood the humanitarian impact developers can have, and how Call for Code could positively position and impact their business.
GLOBAL AMPLIFICATION

To help promote the cause theme behind the annual Call for Code Global Initiative and Global Challenge (i.e. Natural Disasters, Climate Change), celebrity-driven Cause Flashes are launched on a prearranged date selected due to its relevancy to the social justice issue promoted by the initiative. Each year’s social media campaign consists of the aggregated “Social Media Voices” (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram followers) of prominent individuals and organizations with specific cause messages that instantly reaches the social media feeds of a massive global audience of hundreds of millions of followers and fans. The campaign messaging is meant to be a call-to-action to developers, innovators and the public at large to help support the cause and the Call for Code Global Initiative. Cause Flash messaging also invites the followers and fans to share the message with their own followers – further amplifying the Cause Flash and Call for Code Global Initiative around the world.
GLOBAL AMPLIFICATION

To help promote the cause theme behind the annual Call for Code Global Initiative and Global Challenge (i.e. Natural Disasters, Climate Change), celebrity-driven Cause Flashes are launched on a prearranged date selected due to its relevancy to the social justice issue promoted by the initiative. Each year’s social media campaign consists of the aggregated “Social Media Voices” (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram followers) of prominent individuals and organizations with specific cause messages that instantly reaches the social media feeds of a massive global audience of hundreds of millions of followers and fans. The campaign messaging is meant to be a call-to-action to developers, innovators and the public at large to help support the cause and the Call for Code Global Initiative. Cause Flash messaging also invites the followers and fans to share the message with their own followers – further amplifying the Cause Flash and Call for Code Global Initiative around the world.
GLOBAL AMPLIFICATION

To help promote the cause theme behind the annual Call for Code Global Initiative and Global Challenge (i.e. Natural Disasters, Climate Change), celebrity-driven Cause Flashes are launched on a prearranged date selected due to its relevancy to the social justice issue promoted by the initiative. Each year’s social media campaign consists of the aggregated “Social Media Voices” (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram followers) of prominent individuals and organizations with specific cause messages that instantly reaches the social media feeds of a massive global audience of hundreds of millions of followers and fans. The campaign messaging is meant to be a call-to-action to developers, innovators and the public at large to help support the cause and the Call for Code Global Initiative. Cause Flash messaging also invites the followers and fans to share the message with their own followers – further amplifying the Cause Flash and Call for Code Global Initiative around the world.
HIGHLIGHTS
2021 Call for Code Awards Highlights
Andra Day supports Call for Code for Racial Justice
Pitbull discusses Call for Code 2020
Lady Gaga encourages developers to participate in Call for Code
Highlights from the 2020 Call for Code Awards Celebration hosted by Van Jones and featuring Chelsea Clinton, Rivers Cuomo and the Soweto Gospel Choir
David Clark talks about the inspiration behind creating Call for Code and how the initiative has become the largest engagement of developers in history
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Call for Code 2020 Theme
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2018 Call for Code Global Prize Winner - Project Owl
Chelsea Clinton on 2020 Call for Code Global Challenge

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