Deadline: 12-Sep-22
This October 2022, Sovereign Nature Initiative will host their third online Hackathon, building on the success of their two previous competitions and their recent May 2022 Experimental Zone held at De Ceuvel in Amsterdam. They will again be inviting the most talented web3 teams from around the world to build tech in service to the health and balance of life on our planet.
In this iteration, they are partnering with the Kenya Wildlife Trust (KWT), an NGO committed to the protection and conservation of predators and their ecology, situated in the Maasai Mara National park in southwestern Kenya.
KWT and SNI have joined forces to invite adventurous labs and developers to tackle a pressing challenge: how to protect predators –keystone species in the Maasai Mara who play a vital role in maintaining the ecosystem’s resilience.
During the hackathon period, participants will work on their ideas independently while periodically meeting with relevant stakeholders, including representatives from KWT, the Mara Predator Conservation Programme, and our technology partners, who will help participants empathize with the challenges and connect with relevant data. Participants will also have the opportunity to attend virtual office hours and facilitated conversations to validate their ideas with other team members and explore synergies with other teams.
The last 48 hours of the hackathon will be the swarming sprint, where all participants, advisors, and judges will interact and collaborate to finalize the technology developed throughout October.
Teams are encouraged to consider questions such as:
- How can technological and economic tools enable communities to safely cohabit with predators?
- Could tech create conditions for farmers to understand the importance of predators?
- Can a technological solution help determine the value of predators within the complex dynamics of a savanna ecosystem?
Specific Problems they to tackle
Aware of the potential of emerging decentralized technologies, KWT has identified two specific problems they invite teams to tackle:
- Lion identification and data management
- Predators and farmers conflict mitigation
Eligibility Criteria
They are looking for labs, startups, collectives, or companies with a heart for conservation, and ambition to build life-sustaining systems. SNI is keen to explore tools such as:
- Wildlife and biodiversity data oracalization
- Token Engineering – crypto native models for conservancies funds distribution
- Spatio-temporal prediction modeling – wildlife mobility predictions and human-wildlife conflict mitigation
- Citizen science – applications for wildlife tracking and identification
- Computer vision models for wild animals recognition, identification, and tracking
For more information, visit https://sovereignnature.com/sni_kenya_wildlife_trust_hackathon