All participants must be a citizen or legal resident of a 2015 Fishackathon host country at the time of their participation and submission of their eligible solution. All participants must RSVP for their host city through each host city’s respective web site. For each submission to be eligible, an RSVP must match the selected city for each entrant’s Challenge Post registration which is a separate process.

Fishackathon.co reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate on any dispute at any time. If you are entering as part of a company or on behalf of your employer, these rules are binding on you individually, and / or your employer. If you are acting within the scope of your employment, as an employee, contractor, or agent of another party, you warrant that such party has full knowledge of your actions and has consented thereto, including your potential receipt of a prize. You further warrant that your actions do not violate your employer’s or company’s policies and procedures.

Only works created between the start time and end time of each entrant’s selected host city are eligible for prizes.

The start and end times for the Fishackathon will be determined by the individual host cities. All entrants (both physical and virtual) must be registered with a host city. Entrants may only be registered with one host city, but can make multiple submissions. Each entrant/particpant must have an RSVP with the selected host city.

It is highly recommended that each entrant also register with Challenge Post. This gives you full access to all of the problem statements by giving each entrant the chance to ask questions regarding any of the problem statements. The more you know about a problem or challenge the more likely you’ll build a better solution.

The Challenge Post submission form for the Fishackathon will be open on 1500 UTC June 5th 2015 and closed on 1159 UTC June 7th 2015. However, submissions for the Fishackathon must be submitted by the end time of the selected host city (the “Deadline”) for consideration of the prizes. More than one submission per person/team is permitted. To enter the Fishackathon:

• For a submission to be eligible, the submission must be filed electronically to the Fishackathon 2015 ChallengePost site, by the posted end time of the selected host city;
• Each entrant/participant listed on a submission must have an RSVP with the selected host city;
• Submissions containing the new apps must be submitted electronically via Github;
• It is highly recommended that all submissions include a 3 minute video demonstration of the app / or solution;
• Submissions must be entirely the original work of the entrant(s) whether it is an individual or team;
• Submissions must not contain any advertisement or solicitation;
• Submissions must not contain anything that is or may be construed as: (i)threatening, harassing, degrading or hateful; (ii) defamatory; (iii) fraudulent or tortious; (iv) obscene, indecent or otherwise objectionable; or (v) protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express prior consent of the owner of such right;
• Submissions must not contain any material that would give rise to criminal or civil liability or that encourages conduct that constitutes a criminal offense; and
• Submissions must otherwise comply in all respects with these Rules and the Policies.

Fishackathon.co and their representatives will have no responsibility for, and will have the right to refuse at its sole and absolute discretion, any entries that have been altered, tampered with, misdirected, incomplete, nonconforming, corrupt, lost, late, or ineligible, whether due to Internet or email server failure or otherwise. Proof of transmission of an submission shall not constitute proof of receipt. It is each entrant’s responsibility to keep Fishackathon.co and their representatives informed of any changes to entrant’s contact or other information during the Fishackathon.

Judging is a highly subjective process, but Fishackathon.co encourges each host city’s panel of judges to use the criteria below as a framework for their discussion. They’re mindful that their selection represents their city’s best at the global judging. Eligible submissions will be judged in three phases. The first two phases will be assessed by the following criteria:

Innovation:

0. The solution is not unique or innovative.
1. The solution provides a better/faster/clearer way to solve the problem.
2. The new project solves a problem that has been overlooked/ignored in the past, or solves a problem with a new angle/ on a bigger scale / on a higher level.
3. The solution addresses the problem at a deeper level, making existing solutions/efforts unnecessary through disruption.

Impact:

0. Problem is not relevant to sustainable fisheries.
1. Solutions addresses a relevant problem for sustainable fisheries, but it is difficult to implement or scale and the team does not have a clear plan to move the project forward.
2. Solution addresses a relevant problem for sustainable fisheries, and it is hard to implement or scale, but the team has a clear plan to move the project forward.
3. Solution has a predictably sustainable lifecycle and can easily be scaled.

Interface:

0. Not usable.
1. Usable but it is not intuitive without clear instructions.
2. Usable and clear without instructions.
3. Both intuitive and visually appealing.

Phase 1:A panel, selected by and for the host city, of (minimum of 3) judges will use the criteria above to select a finalist for consideration of the global Fishackathon prizes.

All submissions eligible for judging must be posted in ChallengePost by the end time set by each host city for consideration.

• Only teams that are physically present at their selected host city during the Fishackathon are eligible for local prizes.
• Virtual teams are not eligible for local prizes.
• Only one submission representing one solution should be made to the ChallengePost;
• Submissions containing the new apps must be submitted electronically via Github;
• Each submission where the entrant(s) are physically present will be asked to do a 3 minute presentation of their solution, followed by 2 minutes of Q&A by the panel of and 2 minutes of Q&A by others present at the Fishackathon.
• Each submission where the entrant(s) are virtually present will be based solely on their 3 minute presentation.

Local prizes will be awarded by each host city according to the parameters the host city has set prior to the start of their event.

Phase 2: A panel of judges will select a winner, from the set of finalists selected by each of the host cities using the criteria above, of the Grand Prize trip for 2 to the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 2225th, 2016.

Phase 3:Each finalist selected by the host city will be eligible for the “People’s Choice” Award, of a trip for 2 to the Ocean Conference in Santiago, Chile on October 5th9th, 2015. Voting will open on 1200 UTC June 8, 2015 to 1201 UTC July 6, 2015. The winner for the Phase 3 judging will be announced on July 10th, 2015.

All entrants are eligible for global prizes. Prizes being awarded locally are “only” available to entrants who are physically present at the local event.

All entrants of the Fishackathon agrees to Fishackathon.co, Fishackathon.co representatives, and their agencies use of his or her name and/or likeness and the submissions for promotional purposes without additional compensation, unless prohibited by law.