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Annex 4: Host Onboarding Guidelines

This section is intended for new Hosts of the ITU AI/ML Challenge. To have your problem
statement ready and accepted for the challenge, you are supposed to make sure the following
checklist is satisfied.

Check Point-1: Coordinator: Make sure that you have a person who can run the challenge
problem statement and represent your entity in coordination with ITU for the duration of the
Challenge.

Check Point -2: Problem statement(s) Description: Make sure that you submit your problem
statement(s) to ITU using the template provided on the Challenge website.

Check Point -3: Web-admin: Set up a local website with a problem description and a link for
the dataset. A website and logo should be provided in order for participants to access the site
where the description of the dataset and other resources are provided

• If your problem statement requires data, you are required to provide the dataset that
participants are going to use in the challenge. We encourage you to provide information
or toy examples for your problem statement.
• Some problems might require a “Sandbox” to test the submissions – at this point, we may
need a setup with simulators.
• maintain a leaderboard of the top solutions for the problem statement

Check Point -4: Evaluation: Make sure that you have a committee (or a person) who can
review the code submissions and evaluate the results. Description of what the participants are
required to submit, the evaluation criteria, and possible deadlines that follow the ITU Challenge
timelines.

Check Point -5: Funding for Prizes by host: (money, winner-certificates, etc.) to winners in
coordination with ITU. Describe the prizes in your hosted website, apart from the prizes listed
in the ITU challenge website.

Check Point -6: Presentations to participants: The hosts (problem owner) will have to make a
presentation (webinar) to describe the problem, and evaluation (alongside the judges panel).
Also, act as mentors to guide the participants and participate in Slack channel for discussion.

Check Point -7: Marketing: Publish the host website (in English and local languages) and invite
colleagues to participate in the challenge. Marketing (alongside ITU) to attract participants to
the problem statement.
* A GitHub repo to host the code from contestants is provided and maintained by ITU.

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