SNI x Kenya Wildlife Trust Hackathon

SNI x Kenya Wildlife Trust Hackathon

This October 2022, we will host our third online Hackathon, building on the success of our two previous competitions and our recent May 2022 Experimental Zone held at De Ceuvel in Amsterdam. We 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, we 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.

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

Ideal participants

We're 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

Instructions to Apply and Important Dates

Applicants can choose to focus on one of the challenges or both.
Candidates should apply before September 12, by completing this form. We will let applicants know if they are selected by September 16.

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.

For more information and application details, see; SNI x Kenya Wildlife Trust Hackathon

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