Symantec Hosts Hackathon to Promote Lawfulness, Crime Prevention and Cyber Security Skills for Students
June 18 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Symantec partners with United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, today announced it is collaborating with the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Africa
Teen Geeks organization to host a three-day hackathon from July
9-11, 2018 at Symantec’s Mountain View campus. UNODC is a global
leader in the fight against illicit drugs, international crime and
terrorism, and Africa Teen Geeks is a South African non-profit
organization that provides computer science training in schools and
underserved communities.
The hackathon will focus on criminal justice and crime
prevention, allowing students to develop educational games that
teach values around criminal justice to their peers.
The Symantec-sponsored hackathon is the final round of
competition for the winners of three regional hackathons that took
place in South Africa, Indonesia and Bolivia earlier in the year.
Following these contests, 25 secondary school students were
selected from amongst the three countries as winners and invited to
travel to Silicon Valley for the final hackathon. In addition to
the students, members of UNODC, South Africa government
representatives, chaperones and mentors will all be in attendance.
Symantec Chief Human Resources Officer Amy Cappellanti-Wolf will
speak at the event.
“We’re thrilled to host these bright young minds on Symantec’s
campus,” said Cappellanti-Wolf. “As a world-leading cyber security
organization, it’s exciting to watch the next generation of
computer science professionals improve their coding skills and
develop products for the purpose of crime prevention.”
The hackathon is part of the Global Programme for the
Implementation of the Doha Declaration, which came out of the 13th
United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
held in Qatar in 2015. Under the Doha Declaration, UNODC’s
Education for Justice (E4J) initiative was developed to create and
disseminate education materials in UNODC-mandated areas of crime
prevention and criminal justice across the primary, secondary and
tertiary education levels.
The E4J initiative helps educators teach the next generation to
better understand and address problems that can undermine the rule
of law and encourage students to actively engage in their
communities and future professions. The hackathon encourages this
engagement by allowing students to play a hands-on role in
developing educational games that focus on justice and law
issues.
For media interested in attending the hackathon, please email
uspress@symantec.com for a press pass.
About the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC works to counter drugs, crime and terrorism, and mobilizes
and promotes regional and transnational cooperation to confront
these threats. Specific efforts are made to target the world’s most
vulnerable regions, where the convergence of these issues threatens
regional and global security. UNODC works directly with
governments, international organizations, and civil society. For
more, visit www.unodc.org and find us on Facebook, Twitter, and
LinkedIn.
About Africa Teen Geeks
Africa Teen Geeks is one of the largest computer science
education nonprofit organizations in Africa. Since its inception
three years ago, Africa Teen Geeks has impacted over 40,000 kids
and is growing with campaigns such as Girl Geek, Computer Science
Week and Knit2code, a programme that teaches girls with no access
to computers coding by utilizing knitting. For more information,
visit www.africateengeeks.co.za and find us on Facebook,
Twitter, and LinkedIn.
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world's leading cyber
security company, helps organizations, governments and people
secure their most important data wherever it lives. Organizations
across the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated
solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints,
cloud and infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than
50 million people and families rely on Symantec's Norton and
LifeLock product suites to protect their digital lives at home and
across their devices. Symantec operates one of the world's largest
civilian cyber intelligence networks, allowing it to see and
protect against the most advanced threats. For additional
information, please visit www.symantec.com or connect with us on
Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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