Summary

In this chapter, we covered how to create challenges with a sharp edge and pointed at delivering solutions that embody the right level of potential for impact. We covered how you can invite your audience and community to co-create challenges. This was exemplified by two examples of dream campaigns, illustrating how challenges can be created through actively engaging with your employees, customers, and partner organizations. The importance of communication and community-driven activities were highlighted, creating challenges that will be appealing to the hacker teams and also produce the high-quality solutions you need. This chapter also covered specific examples of challenges used in Hack for Earth hackathons. These examples and the descriptions of the two examples of dream campaigns serve as hands-on lessons for readers to create challenges on their own.

In the next chapter, you will learn about the Hack! phase in the Dream! Hack! Build! methodology, taking you through...