The event was organised together with CIVITTA with partners from the National Anticorruption Centre, e-Government Centre Moldova and MiLab who all proved very professional and with great know-how in their field. In addition, the comfy event space was provided by the first co-working space of Chisinau GeneratorHUB and also Granat - who was responsible of the visual side of the event - needs to be mentioned for their stellar work. Good knowledge and network of CIVITTA and the passionate work of their country manager Ecaterina Silova and her team brought together 60+ participants on Friday all eager to pitch their idea, gather a team around it and get to work. There was 19 ideas presented and 11 of them were submitted to the competition. The teams had support throughout the weekend from a team of specialist mentors from both Estonia and Moldova: Anca Albu (social innovation expert with 6+ years of experience in building startup ecosystems all over the world), Sergiu Matei (a successful entrepreneur sharing his time between the US and Moldova, also being actively involved in the development of Moldovian startup ecosystem), Kai Isand (the project lead at Garage48 building networks and helping startup communities in the region, also teaching individual teams to deliver their message be it through online mediums or in person), Jaanus Sakkis (a long time design mentor in Garage48, also an accomplished creative director with substantial experience in UX/UI design), Martin Verrev (with over a decade of experience in engineering and as a Garage48 mentor he has participated in over 30 hackathons, he is also passionate about social projects) and Krists Avots (has been running and mentoring hackathon and bootcamp events for the past 6 years, as a daily job he is driving tech product development in the Latvian Lattelecom). The results were 10 great teams on stage presenting their working prototypes - from a platform to gather data about open tenders to a widget that ables to leave meaningful video comments to news stories. Although different in principle, all of the ideas had one thing in common - they are a platform for the public to use their collective voice and stand up against corruption. 

The jury consisted of representatives of the partner organisations: Cornelia Amihalachioae (e-Government Centre Moldova), Ion Pruteanu (National Anticorruption Centre), Olga Crivoliubic (UNDP Moldova), Anca Albu (TheChange.rs), Krists Avots (Garage48, Lattelecom). The best teams were picked considering not only the project's impact on the Moldovian society but also the potential of the team's determination and collective skill to launch the product. The decision proved to be a difficult one with a lot of great ideas on the table but after a long discussion in the jury room the winners were announced. So here are the winners of Garage48 Chisinau Hack.Corruption hackathon:

OVERALL WINNER:
Open Money

2ND RUNNER-UP:
#CoBoT

E-GOVERNMENT CENTRE SPECIAL PRIZE:
5th Column