Call For Code AI | Calling All Developers

The most urgent problems on earth need the most skilled people on earth.

Built on the world's largest developer mobilization for social good, Call for Code AI now channels that infrastructure toward the defining challenge of this era — building AI that can be trusted at global scale.

Founded in partnership with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights), the platform operates across 190+ countries with direct alignment to the global policy frameworks that govern how technology is adopted, deployed, and scaled.

Over eight years, more than one million developers across 190+ countries built 50,000+ applications. The strongest were recognized at the United Nations, deployed in real communities, and open-sourced through the Linux Foundation.

Project OWL restored emergency communications in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Prometeo put AI-powered health monitoring on firefighters battling wildfires in Spain. These are examples of deployed technologies serving communities around the world — proof that this platform doesn’t just surface ideas. It sees them through.

AI is already embedded in the systems that shape daily life — healthcare decisions, financial access, emergency response, public infrastructure. The question is no longer what AI can do. It is whether the systems making those decisions can be tested, trusted, and held to account.

Call for Code AI is built for that question. A neutral proving ground for frontier AI systems — evaluating performance, safety, scalability, and alignment with human rights standards.

Not a hackathon. Structured infrastructure for responsible AI deployment at global scale.

The Call for Code AI Global Challenge mobilizes developers, enterprises, universities, and global institutions to build AI solutions designed for real-world deployment — not proof-of-concept, but production.

Solutions are developed in the open, validated through institutional frameworks, and the strongest are elevated to a global stage: recognized by the United Nations and supported toward deployment in communities worldwide.

Alongside the Global Challenge, Spot Challenges enable rapid mobilization around urgent issues as they emerge — operating within the same governance framework so that speed and accountability are never in conflict.

Call for Code began with a conviction: that developers are the quiet architects of the world we live in — and that given the right partners and the right stage, they would build the one we need.

Alongside United Nations Human Rights, IBM, and The Linux Foundation, we turned that conviction into infrastructure. Over eight years, more than one million developers in 190+ countries built more than 50,000 solutions. The strongest were recognized at the United Nations, open-sourced for the world, and carried from code into deployment in communities from Puerto Rico to Spain.

This platform was built with developers and for developers — their DNA is in its design. From the challenges we shaped to the judges we chose to the intellectual property they kept, it was engineered to earn their trust, and their work was honored on a stage that ran from the United Nations to Bill Clinton, Linus Torvalds, and Lady Gaga. That is why it became known as the Nobel for developers.

And after 8 Global Challenges, 75 Spot Challenges, and a million developers answering the call, we are only getting started.

AI now sits inside the systems that govern daily life — healthcare, justice, finance, public infrastructure. The responsibility to build it well has never been greater. The cost of getting it wrong has never been higher.

Call for Code AI exists for this moment, and for a simple principle: the developers who build AI should be the ones building the tools to hold it accountable — and the partners who stand with them should be held to the same standard.

— David Clark, Founder & CEO