{"id":11650,"date":"2024-03-15T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/demhack-8-hackathon-announces-prize-fund-for-internet-freedom-projects\/"},"modified":"2024-03-15T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T16:46:48","slug":"demhack-8-hackathon-announces-prize-fund-for-internet-freedom-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/demhack-8-hackathon-announces-prize-fund-for-internet-freedom-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"DemHack 8 Hackathon Announces Prize Fund for Internet Freedom Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From March 29 to 31, the online hackathon <a href=\"https:\/\/8.demhack.org\/\">DemHack 8<\/a> will take place, focusing on censorship and new ways to access information.<\/p>\n<p>Russian-speaking IT specialists, data analysts, cybersecurity experts, designers and digital artists, internet activists, journalists, and researchers are invited to participate.<\/p>\n<p>The hackathon comprises three tracks: privacy, internet freedom, and internet research. Participants must present a technical project addressing a problem in one of these areas.<\/p>\n<p>There are no restrictions on the format of solutions or methods of expression. Selection is conducted by a competition committee.<\/p>\n<p>The prize fund for the hackathon is 1200 USDT. Additionally, selected teams will have the opportunity to join the acceleration program at <a href=\"https:\/\/privacyaccelerator.org\/\">Privacy Accelerator<\/a> and receive grant support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pd.demhack.org\/demhack8\/\">Registration<\/a> for participants is open until March 18 inclusive.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog published an interview with the winners of DemHack 7, discussing their projects and the future of a free internet amid strengthening authoritarian regimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From March 29 to 31, the online hackathon DemHack 8 will take place, focusing on censorship and new ways to access information. Russian-speaking IT specialists, data analysts, cybersecurity experts, designers and digital artists, internet activists, journalists, and researchers are invited to participate. The hackathon comprises three tracks: privacy, internet freedom, and internet research. Participants must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1111,322,1256,1448],"class_list":["post-11650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybersecurity","tag-events","tag-privacy-and-personal-data","tag-vpn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"20","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}