2023 Oxford Hackathon Winners Announced

$40,000 in Prizes Awarded to Hackathon Winners

Winners of the Spring 2023 Knowledge Token® Hackathon at Oxford University Announced

The winners of the Spring 2023 Knowledge Token® Hackathon recently held at Oxford University during the 2023 Blockchain in Education Summit and Digital Civilisation joint conferences have been selected.

Teams from Switzerland, England, Nigeria and South Africa (see team members below) emerged as the victors of the 3-day competition, leading the field of over 50 global entrants.

The winning teams receive professional Internet Computer blockchain developer grant ($35,000 in total grant prizes) and Knowledge Token® intellectual currency ($5,000 in total prizes).

EINSTEIN CEREMONY AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT

The Knowledge Tokens will be presented to the winners during a special awards ceremony to be held in front of Einstein's Doctoral certificate (PhD diploma) at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, on opening day of IMMERSIVE SWITZERLAND 2023 and the Fall 2023 Blockchain in Education Summit.

The corresponding DFINITY Foundation Developer Grants are awarded to the hackathon winners specifically to provide funding for the implementation of the winning entries on the open source Internet Computer distributed computing blockchain platform, enabling the winners to participate actively and directly in the design and development of Knowledge Token® in collaboration with the Knowledge Foundation.

SPONSORS

Sponsored by the DFINITY Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and Lando & Anastasi, LLP, (Boston, USA) the hackathon at Oxford was the first in a series of ongoing Knowledge Token® hackathons, conferences and collaborations.

FUTURE EVENTS

Doha, Qatar, Fall 2023:

The Knowledge Foundation is cooperating with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on the upcoming Coding4Integrity Arab Youth Anti-Corruption hackathon that is organized by UNODC's Global Resource for Anti-Corruption Education and Youth Empowerment (GRACE) initiative. The event takes place this Fall in Doha, Qatar.

As an aspect of this project, young coders from the Arab region will, among other corruption-related challenges, be tasked to address an important facet of today's EdTech revolution: how to ensure integrity, ethics and transparency are upheld within existing and future knowledge systems. Participants will have the opportunity to receive Knowledge Tokens as seed developer grants to continue working on their solutions going forward.

Zurich, Switzerland, Winter 2023:

Following the event in Qatar, a broad-spectrum Knowledge Token hackathon and conference that features Artificial Intelligence (AI) and immersive technology (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, simulations and more) is planned in Zurich this Winter in collaboration with the University of Zurich Blockchain Center.

Oxford, MIT, Yale, Stellenbosch University and NITheCS, 2023-2024:

Early stage planning is now underway for the next hackathon and conference at the University of Oxford (Spring 2024) and similar events at MIT, Yale University, Stellenbosch University and the National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences (NITheCS).

OXFORD HACKATHON WINNING TEAMS: Front End

The target for the front-end hackathon was a Token Management System (TMS) that enabled users to view and organize their Knowledge Tokens and related learner data tokens and NFTs. The winning solutions took a mobile-first design approach (designed primarily for use on mobile devices, such as phones and tablets), while still being accessible and functional using desktop/laptop computers.

The winning teams of this competition are:

Team OpinionGames GmbH, Switzerland
Benjamin Lemcke
Sebastian Imbach 


Team Oxford Brookes University, England
Joshua Futcher
Louie Doswell

 

OXFORD HACKATHON WINNING TEAMS: Blockchain

The target for the blockchain hackathon was a Token Auction System (TAS) that enabled users ("sellers" and "bidders") to exchange tokens via an English auction, for which a number of related bid, ask and settlement features were required.

The winning teams of this competition are:

Team STEM, Nigeria
UNODC Coding4Integrity 2021 winner
Prince Achoja
Marvellous Solomon
Abdullahi Al-mustapha Wakili
Abdulsalam Mohammed
Salma Gambo


Team Blockchain Bulls, South Africa 
UNODC Coding4Integrity 2021 winner
Joseph Gwara
Batandwa Mgutsi
Gerald Maswoswere 


Team University of Kent, England
Ben Martin	
Gopi Gnallingam
Joseph Kearney


Team Oxford Brookes University, England
	Joshua Futcher
	Louie Doswell

 

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PRESS CONTACT

Annelise Martson
Immersive Education Initiative
https://ImmersiveEducation.org
annelise.martson@ImmersiveEducation.org

 

 

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