Likeminded people working towards a common goal, the chance of winning a money prize, study credits, learning experience. This October on the 13.-15.10.2017 Legal Tech Lab will organize its first ever hackathon event for university students. Our first hackathon will be open for undergraduate students from all universities in Finland. University of Helsinki and Aalto University students will get study credits for taking part in the hackathon.
The hackathon will be a weekend-long intensive dive into the world of legal technology, during which the students work in groups mentored by top professionals of the trade. The groups will aim at generating ideas for real-life services utilizing Semantic Finlex, a project making Finnish legislative information available in the form of linked open data. The ideas teams will come up with may address citizens’ rights, consumer issues, bureaucracy, or the legal ecosystem at large, you name it.
Through the hackathon we aim at creating user-friendly tools and forge concrete solutions from our theoretical know-how. The goal is not to come up with a fully functional service or app but to squeeze out an idea and hatch it into a prototype or some kind of a blueprint for future development. At the end of the weekend every team will present their solution and the best one will be rewarded.
As a learning event the high-energy weekend will be unforgettable and the multidisciplinary approach offers the students a great chance to network with future professionals of other disciplines involved in shaping the future of legal tech. Law students will gain real-life experience by stepping outside the theoretical legal realm and joining the tech-minded people in tackling a concrete problem head-on. IT and design students will get insight on the emerging legal tech scene. Everyone will learn to value the skills of people who are different than themselves.
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