How can we build a multilingual, intelligent AI Assistant that empowers humanitarian actors to access, compare, and learn from complex project data—instantly and meaningfully?
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Problem This challenge invites you to prototype an internal AI application for the Swiss Humanitarian Aid (SHA). Your task is to design a conversational interface that helps staff explore large volumes of project data, evaluations, and reports – making knowledge accessible, actionable, and comparable.
But this goes beyond answering questions. Your assistant should help contextualize SHA’s work by drawing comparisons with other international cooperation actors (e.g., OECD DAC, ReliefWeb). The goal: strategic insight, institutional learning, and real-world impact.
Objective Boost efficiency: Enable fast, accurate access to project insights.
- Foster learning: Identify similar interventions across time, regions, and actors.
- Support strategy: Compare SHA’s approaches with those of other donors.
- Ensure transparency: Every response must include source references.
- Speak the world’s languages: Multilingual support is a must.
- Be user-first: Provide a clean, intuitive interface for non-technical users.
- Ensure scalability: Implement a modular, secure pipeline for uploading and indexing new documents and datasets.
Support for Hackers
- Public project evaluations
- Excel datasets covering humanitarian aid projects
- Mentoring from SHA experts in humanitarian aid and data systems
Technical Preferences
- Multilingual capabilities (EN, FR, DE at minimum)
Why hack? Because your code can save lives. Humanitarian aid is under pressure—financially, logistically, and politically. Smarter tools mean better decisions, faster responses, and more impact. This is your chance to apply cutting-edge AI to a real-world challenge with global relevance. You’ll be shaping how Swiss Humanitarian Aid works in the future.
About the Challenge Partner
The Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SHA) is the operational arm of Switzerland's international cooperation. SHA specialists are deployed to implement projects of the SHA or its partners before, during, and after natural disasters, crises, and conflicts. SHA works independently, neutrally, and impartially to save lives and alleviate suffering through disaster preparedness, emergency response, and reconstruction efforts. SHA collaborates with various international donors and partners to maximize the impact of humanitarian aid.
Additional context
The figure shows the geographic distribution and priority themes of projects included in the dataset provided for the challenge.