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2026 GITC Overview

  • Title : 2026 Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities
  • Participants : About 700 youth with disabilities from 9 countries (total)
  • Host : Ministry of Health and Welfare(Republic of Korea), LG
  • Organizer : GITC Organizing Committee, LG Electronics, RI Korea, WTL Vietnam, Duy Tan university
  • Sponsor : Ministry of Foreign Affairs(Republic of Korea), Community Chest Korea

Key Features of 2026 GITC

  • Operation of National IT Challenges
    • Participating countries must hold national-level National IT Challenges by July to select qualifiers for the Final Round. The representative chaperone must share the operation plan for the National IT Challenge with the GITC Secretariat in advance and submit the result report and supporting documents afterwards.
    • Venue: Online or On-site
    • Schedule: Between May and July
    • Equipment: Mobile phone, tablet, PC, etc.
    • Competition events: Various IT-related events may be additionally operated, including the Final Round events
    • Scale: No limit on the number of participants by competition event
  • Co-hosting of the GITC Final Round in cooperation with Da Nang City, Will To Live Vietnam, and Duy Tan University
  • Advancement of the GITC operating system
    • Expansion of National IT Challenge Committees (NITCC): Operation of National Committees to strengthen the accountability and implementation system of participating countries.
    • Activation of the InI Forum: One additional forum will be held to review national policies related to digital accessibility for youth with disabilities, share and disseminate best practices, and discuss practical matters related to the GITC. (twice a year)
    • Expansion of AI-based competition events: In response to changes in the AI era, the GITC will expand competition events designed to strengthen AI utilization capabilities. (reflected in 3 out of 4 events)

       

Competitions

Category
 Description
e-Combination

To evaluate integrated application skills applicable to real-life situations, including AI-based information search, spreadsheet utilization, andpresentation (Individual)
e-Content To evaluate planning, storytelling, AI utilization, and production / editing skills required to create creative video content based on a given theme using AI platforms (Team)
e-Creative To evaluate self-driving car programming (coding) skills to complete a mission (Team)
e-Interactive To evaluate planning, production, and presentation skills for an interactive (responsive) game that responds to the user’s movements, voice, facial expressions, input, etc., using AI functions and block coding (Team)

The Process

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eLearning

  • Schedule: All year round (Anyone can study with eLearning without restrictions on time and place.)
  • Self-directed online educational platform to learn relevant knowledge and skills for the competitions of the GITC

National League

  • Purpose: To select the qualifiers for Preliminary Round
  • Schedule:Mar~June (at the discretion of each country)
  • Venue: Online or offline (at the discretion of each country)

Registration for Preliminary Round

  • Schedule: Within 2 weeks after the announcement of the results of the National League (different by each country)
  • Targets: Qualifiers by National League
  • How to register: After joining as a member on the GITC web site, submit the application form

Preliminary Round

  • Purpose: To select the qualifiers for Final Round
  • Schedule: 18th, July, 2025 (Prior task submission: for 2 weeks)
  • Venue: Online 
  • Schedule (Korea Standard Time, tentative)

    June 10th (Thur) ~
    29rd (Sun)    		 Time July 18th (Fri)
    Prior task submission

    1) eContent
    - A video clip (2 min)

    2) eCreative_Smart Car
    - One-take video clip on the self-driving car performance
    - Coding program
    (file extension: xml)

    3) eCreative_IoT
    - Development plan
    - Presentation materials
    - Presentation video     		14:00~14:10 Opening Ceremony (10’)
    14:10~14:20

    Competition Orientation
    eCombination (100’)

    ※ Additional 30 mins to screen reader users

    14:20~16:00
    16:00~16:30
    16:30~17:30Meals and Breaks (60’) / Global Talk Talk
    17:30~17:50 eContent(20’)
    17:50~18:10 eCreative_Smart car (20’)
    18:10~18:30

Registration for Final Round

  • Schedule: August~September
  • Targets: Qualifiers by Preliminary Round
  • How to register: Revise the application form as the qualified competitions by Preliminary Round

Final Round

  • Schedule: 28th~31th October, 2025 (Prior task submission: for 2 weeks)
  • Venue: Ulsan, South Korea
  • Schedule (Korea Standard Time)
Prior task submission : Sep 16th(Mon) ~ Sept 29th (Sun)
1) eContent 
- Pre-prepare video software and media		 2) eCreative_Smart Car 
- Pre-prepare coding language software(if necessary)		 3) eCreative_IoT
- development completion report, presentation materials 
- videos of demonstration and production process

Time 28th(Tue) 29th(Wed) 30th(Thur) 31th(Fri)
09~10 - Arrival
- Final check
- Orientation for volunteers		 Opening eContent Awards Ceremony I
10~11 eCombination Courtesy Meeting with Distinguished Guests
11~12 Awards Ceremony II
12~13
13~14 Lunch Lunch Lunch
14~15 eCreative_
Smart Car		 eCreative_IoT
15~17 AI Demonstration Competition
17~18
18~20 Dinner Side Event
Dinner Dinner Gala Dinner

InI Forum

  • Purpose: To evaluate the GITC for the year and discuss the way to promote as an internationally renowned competition
  • Schedule: October 30th, 2025
  • Venue: Ulsan, South Korea
  • Participants: About 50~100 persons (public officers of relevant ministries, chaperones and Organizing Committee)