Rules of the Game

#BuildtheBlock
How blockchain technology could revolutionise the insurance industry

Rules of the Game

  • All teams will include and use AWS blockchain environment to produce their solution
  • This is a team event, with each team ideally comprising of up to 5 members
  • Teams must live in the APAC region
  • You can either invite your friends to form a team or can request other teams to add you as a member
  • There is only 1 theme of the hackathon, and you must submit a hack according to the theme
  • You are expected to come up with original ideas. Any idea that is found to be copied will be disqualified
  • Your hack must be developed entirely during the Hackathon duration (Finals). You may use open source libraries and other freely available systems / services such as Google Maps, Facebook Connect, Twitter feeds etc.
  • A working prototype must be ready by the end of the Hackathon

Critieria of Assement

Phase one – Evaluation of ideas:

  • Innovativeness – Market relevance – is this an exciting application for subscribers or businesses
  • Quality and clarity of presentation
  • Appropriate selection of APIs – have to use at least ONE Aegon API
  • Ease of use – is the application easy to use and has good ergonomics appropriate selection of APIs – Use of diverse industries – in addition to telecommunications APIs if other APIs where used such as government, weather, business, tax code, etc
  • Cost – how much will this cost users? (Free, non free, advertising)


Phase two – Evaluation of implementation:

  • Quality and clarity of presentation – the format, color schemes, design, etc
  • Functionality – is the application useful
  • Efficiency (network load) – not incurring too much latency, an acceptable response time for all actions
  • Over all User Experience