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Crowdsourcing AI and Machine Learning solutions for SDGs

4 Participation

Participation is open to ITU members
and any individual from an ITU Member
State. “Participants” are individuals
or companies that participate in the
ITU AI/ML in 5G Challenge, providing
solutions to problem sets of the
Challenge.

There are two categories of
participants: student and professional.

4.1 Motivation to Participate

After each iteration of the challenge is completed, participants are asked to complete a survey
prepared by the challenge secretariat. One of the key questions in the survey focuses on
the participants' motivation for joining the challenge. The figure below illustrates the various
reasons why individuals choose to participate in the ITU AI/ML Challenges. Notably, the primary
motivation for most participants is the opportunity to upskill or enhance their professional or
academic capabilities, rather than the pursuit of prizes.

Figure 4: Motivation to participate in the challenge

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