Reboot the Earth

Saving the Planet Through Innovation

Reboot the Earth is a social coding event that brings a diverse group together to improve or build technology solutions addressing the current climate crisis. Organized by OICT, and co-hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Carnegie Mellon University, Digital Public Goods Alliance and Salesforce, Reboot the Earth 2025 will focus on Agriculture and AI.

The event will take place around the globe, in the following locations, between April and October 2025 (dates and registration details coming soon):

Hyderabad, India (23-24 April) Register	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (TBA)
Kigali, Rwanda (7-8 May) Register	Rabat, Morocco (TBA)
New York City (29-30 May) Register	Virtual (TBA)
Rome (TBA)

Who should attend?

Reboot the Earth is committed to hosting diverse and inclusive events. As inheritors of our planet, it is essential for youth to contribute to this important cause. We encourage young computer programmers, developers, and especially those with an interest in building technology that advances the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

What winning teams will receive?

Coaching from Salesforce and UN partners for 6 months to scale their solutions.
Certificates in recognition of their efforts and accomplishments.
Additional details coming soon.

Reboot The Earth 2024

Last year's event engaged young innovators in developing technological solutions to address climate change and advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event took place in May and June 2024 across various locations. The initiative underscored the commitment to empowering youth to drive technological innovations for climate resilience. All regional winners were granted $10,000 through the #YouthLead Impact Fund to incubate and scale their ideas; coaching from Salesforce and UN partners to scale their solutions; and paid airfare for a team representative to attend and pitch their solution at the OSPOs for Good Symposium in New York City.

About the Reboot Accelerator

Crowd-Sourced Solutions

Reboot Accelerator enables innovators to engage with each other and to contribute directly to solving global challenges by developing crowd-sourced solutions.

Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Reboot Accelerator presents an opportunity for multiple stakeholders—from the UN, academia, and the private and public sectors—to collaborate on solutions.

Knowledge Sharing

Reboot Accelerator provides a space to share feedback and ideas that lead to knowledge sharing, which will foster innovative solutions.

Past Reboot Challenges

The World Health Organization (WHO), together with UNAIDS and OICT, challenged innovators to use expertise to address one of the urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safer.

Reboot the Ocean was a call for solutions leading up to the Ocean Conference (2021) and initiated by OICT, the United Nations Global Compact, the United Nations Ocean Conference, and the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, in partnership with SAP.

Reboot the Earth was a social coding event that brings young computer programmers, scientists and other interested people together under the auspices of the United Nations to improve upon or build new software programs that address the current climate crisis. Reboot The Earth was a joint initiative led by the OICT and the UN Youth Envoy in partnership with SAP.