The Open Seventeen (O17) Summer Challenge is a prize-backed fully online coaching programme to reward and invest in those developing innovative and implementable projects that leverage crowdsourcing and open source solutions to tackle the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2020, the O17 Summer Challenge targeted the Covid health crisis and the social, environmental and economic challenges that the world will face in its aftermath.

This Challenge is co-organized by Citizen Cyberlab at the University of Geneva, CRI at the University of Paris, The Goodwall social network for Gen-Z, the AI for Good Global Summit, and with the support of the Crowd4SDG Project and the Geneva Tsinghua Initiative. It took place from the 6 – 31 July 2020