Our cities of the future should be epicentres of creativity, innovation, sustainability - where people will thrive. But only if we get things right. On a planet that will soon need to support up to nine billion people, our cities also consume the most resources, produce the most waste, use the most energy. Added to this, we are witnessing the troubling rise of social and economic inequality. To enable a positive future for our cities, we need to start now by collectively building the new products, services, platforms and business models to achieve this vision.

We are looking for technology and design solutions which focus on building our future cities, and utilising emerging technologies such as blockchain and IoT. 

For more information on the Hackthon visit: http://www.wwf.org.au/get-involved/futurecitiesproject

• Impact/Potential
  Does it have an environmental and social impact? Has it focused on the Sustainability Development Goals? Are they solving a problem? What makes them different or ahead of others? Will their business model work? Can we continue to support this project?
• Creativity/Innovative
  Have they identified who their user/s are? How well have they understood the persona/s? Is the solution user friendly? How easy is it to navigate the features and do they have clear benefits? Is it unique and interesting?
• Technology
  What languages/platforms have been used? How clean is the code? Does the solution work? Has it been tested with the user?