The world’s digital footprint is expanding, with more and more activities being handled online. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying societal challenges that were already in place, including identity verification and data privacy. At Santander, we are working to help with new trust verification services built on top of expanded OpenID capabilities.

icons security identity

Refuting the view that digital channels are fundamentally untrustworthy, the Digital Trust Hackathon encourages teams to come up with ideas to help both companies and individuals thrive securely in a digital world—avoiding risks ranging from delays in important agreements, purchases or services to fraud, identity theft and financial losses.

Challenge and opportunity

Businesses need to move faster to adjust to today’s rapidly evolving changes and to remain competitive—and individuals need to interact and transact easily and safely online. To do that, we all need to be able to trust each other.

The new Santander Trusted OpenID services verify and validate identity anda data of the person or business you are interacting with online. Leveraging this capability, what solutions can you build or improve upon to take advantage of current opportunities?

A few examples:

Integrate DT with existing services that need to prove identity, age, nationality, address, etc.
Build your own electronic signature service
Use DT data validation capabilities to create a loan service based on users bank records
IoT fan? Imagine how you can combine it with DT.
Get creative!

The hackathon is open to individuals, teams (2-5 people), companies and nonprofit organizations that want to reimagine digital data and create ways for individuals and businesses to interact and transact—safely and securely, without compromising privacy.

The technology

For this hackathon, you can leverage the technology developed by Santander to create your own applications. The Santander Digital Trust protocol, built on top of OpenID open-source technology, allows you to: 1) authenticate your users using bank-grade standards; 2) access verified, high-quality data; and 3) validate facts from users without requiring that they share their personal data.

If you already know how OpenID works, you will find that we have extended it so it’s very easy for you to add new features. For more details, take a look here.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

You don’t need to start something from scratch. You can use an existing app (built by yourself or having the rights to do so), and update it by adding Digital Trust capabilities. That’s a great hack! Just make sure you explain this on the slides or video you present to the jury.

Eligibility

Individuals or teams of 2-5-people.
You must be at least 18 years old or at age of majority according to the legislation of the place where you reside.For more detailed information check the rules of the hackathon.
You don't work for Grupo Santander or provide services for this hackathon.

Requirements

For a successful submission, you need to choose at least two on the following things:

A Slide Deck
A Git Repository
A Video explaining the prototype (3-5 min.)

Slide Deck/Video

If you decide to submit a slide deck or a video for your solution, this can be uploaded to any Google Drive or Dropbox (with a publicly accessible link).

Make sure you include the following information in your deck:

Introduction - An introduction of your team or company.
Challenge or Problem - Explain what's the problem you're trying to solve
Solution - Articulate the idea and your strategy for solving the problem.
Technology - What makes your prototype special? What technologies will you utilize and why?
Scaling - How can your prototype be scaled to serve the needs of the millions of people?

Git Repository

You need to submit your solution as a public Git repository. It could be hosted on any platform like Github, Bitbucket, Gitlab, etc, and must be publicly accessible.

Hackathon Sponsors

Prizes

$36,950 in prizes

First place

$6000 in cash
$1000 Visa gift card compliments of Coforge
1 year free access to Saltedge API - Value: $5000
$200 Amazon Gift Card compliments of Accenture

Second place

$3,000 cash
$1000 Visa gift card compliments of Coforge
1 year free access to Saltedge API - Value: $5000
$150 Amazon Gift Card compliments of Accenture

Third place

$1,500 cash
$1000 Visa gift card compliments of Coforge
1 year free access to Saltedge API - Value: $5000
$100 Amazon Gift Card compliments of Accenture