Hack for Earth Youth Hackathon at COP27
The global online hackathon Hack for Earth at COP27 was organized in collaboration with the UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub, UN World Food Programme Innovation Accelerator, UNICEF Office of Innovation, UNICEF, UNEP, World Bank Youth Summit, SIDA, Radiant Earth Foundation, Empire Partner Foundation and more. The 27th UN high level climate conference, the COP27, was held in Sharm-El-Sheikh in Egypt in November 2022.
The winners
The 7 winners of Hack for Earth Youth Hackathon at COP27
48 hours of hackathon has come to an end and here are the 7x winning solutions! These solutions will now go on to join the Build for Earth acceleration program and become real solutions for the good of society.
Agriculture Category Winner
Agrotech Plus
Team Members:
Anais,
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Enock Imani,
Kenya 🇰🇪
Grace Heta,
Tanzania 🇹🇿
Mercy Nzuve,
Germany 🇩🇪
Sharon Chacha,
Kenya 🇰🇪
Description:
Agrotech Plus is an eco-friendly cold chain company that provides practical and affordable preservation services to smallholder farmers to end post-harvest losses; Kenya is a pilot country. We have developed a solar-powered cooling technology that extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables by up to 21 days.
Every solar cold room we set up is reducing up to 16.5 tonnes of CO2 emissions each month.
Transport Category Winner
Green Wasalny
Team Members:
Ahmed Gamal Ahmed El Skenedy,
Egypt 🇪🇬
Joseph Nguthiru,
Kenya 🇰🇪
Nada Abdelhady Moamen,
Egypt 🇪🇬
Omnia Hesha,
Egypt 🇪🇬
Description:
Supply Chain Land Fleet contributed to 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions produced by the transportation sector worldwide in 2020.
As a team, after conducting wide research and brainstorming sessions, we realised that digital tracking and tracing of materials and goods effectively, reliably and responsibly could help reduce GHG emissions.
Our smart and innovative solution is "GREEN WASALNY". This is a mobile-based platform that brings Digitalization to the Supply Chain Transportation Cycle. (‘Wasalny’ is Arabic for ‘Drop me to my Location’).
"GREEN WASALNY" is a navigation system for fleet drivers that will positively improve the logistics transportation operations’ effectiveness. Companies' owners and fleet operators will not have to worry again as drivers get safe and accurate navigation information while planning routes better to maximize their returns.
GREEN WASALNY uses real-time traffic data to avoid delays and reroutes when the road conditions are not conducive. The app is affordable and can be used for an entire fleet. The navigation is still operational even while offline and useful for long cargo hauls without causing driving distractions.
Smart City Category Winner
Klean AIR
Team Members:
Charlotte Heikendorf,
Denmark 🇩🇰
Emmanuel Manny,
South Africa 🇿🇦
Hamisi Briva,
Kenya 🇰🇪
Jeff Ayako,
Kenya 🇰🇪
Kelvin Mulama,
Kenya 🇰🇪
Description:
A Data-Driven Decision Making Application That Recommends Customized Action Plans to Climate Policy Makers Using Machine Learning And AI.
This project is meant to mitigate climate change by assisting policy makers in choosing the right action to counter emissions of greenhouse gases in Nairobi and to display these plans to the public. We have created a mobile app and a website where it is possible to get an overview over air quality and get recommendations to plant vegetation or make infrastructure changes. We will get our sensor data from Open Data Africa and in a collaboration with Safari network and NGO Purple AIR.
Biodiversity Category Winner
EvolveNet
Team Members:
Ana Clara Faria,
Brazil 🇧🇷
Charic Farinango,
Colombia 🇨🇴
Maria Vivian Awori,
Uganda 🇺🇬
Description:
EvolveNet combines spatiotemporally aligned satellite imagery with sea turtle metadata, including turtle distribution, sensing data and bycatch information to commercial metadata, providing an interaction risk attention map that enables the prediction of potential turtle risk hotspots and periods. Additionally to this, we also use EvolveNet interpretation using attention maps to understand the underlying factors that lead to each risk area to provide useful policy recommendations to mitigate the hunt and harm of sea turtles.
The proposed pipeline has been designed as well for generalizing the method to other species if the metadata is available, allowing a high scalability into any geographical area as all the data is publicly available.
Energy Category Winner
DeBattery
Team Members:
Joe Toh,
Singapore 🇸🇬
Louie Yeow,
Malaysia 🇲🇾
Pawandeep Singh,
Singapore 🇸🇬
Description:
A democratised data-driven solution that encourages Electric Vehicle owners to plug in their vehicles to the smart grid. Closing the gaps and enhancing the reliability of the grid while reducing the need to burn more fossil fuel for energy production.
Natural Resources Management Category Winner
Wiper Transformation
Team Members:
Ahmed Khalid,
Egypt 🇪🇬
Amira Mohamed,
Egypt 🇪🇬
Sara Gomaa,
Egypt 🇪🇬
Description:
Since cellulosic mass is the most abundant organic polymer in the world, we decided to take advantage of the zero-cost agricultural waste materials in Egypt by transforming palm leaves into bio-cellulosic fibers using chemical treatment & biotechnology. Then take the cellulose granules and make sanitized wipes locally using reverse-engineered hydroentanglement technology.
Sustainable Digital Solutions Category Winner
SMALLSMALLbig
Team Members:
Fletcher Hartman,
USA 🇺🇸
Karina Pérez Salinas,
Mexico 🇲🇽
Mariko Daisey,
USA 🇺🇸
Rachel Williams,
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description:
A sustainable digital world requires action big enough to make an impact—and small enough to make people feel it's not disrupting their daily lives. SMALLSMALLbig aims to create an open-source archive of data-driven solutions that are truly small and get seriously huge, starting with a campaign around the electricity wasted by something so small we barely even notice it: our spam folders.
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Jury criteria
Each jury group will evaluate your solution based on these six criteria. The jury criteria are equally important in the evaluation. The jury criteria are the same for all 7 challenge categories.
Comprehensibility
Comprehensibility of the solution proposal’s value proposition and main use case
- Is it easy to understand the solution?
- Is it easy to understand how the solution works and how it will be implemented to solve the challenge?
- How well detailed is the description of the solution?
- Does it include an understanding of the key stakeholders and ecosystems that are relevant to the realisation of the solution?
- Will the end users of the solution understand it too, or do they need special skills to take part of it or use it?
Realisability
Realisability of the solution from its current idea stage to implemented solution, used by its intended users in its problem context
- How realistic is the time plan?
- Does the solution have access to all the needed data (if applicable)?
- How well are potential risks calculated for?
- How soon can the solution be available to the intended users?
- Is the technology mature enough (if applicable)?
- Can a minimum viable product be created within 3 months?
- Can a proof of concept be created within 6 months?
Innovativeness
Innovativeness of the idea behind the solution, as well as the intended technology to be used in an implementation of the solution (if applicable).
- In what way is this solution innovative?
- Are there existing or similar solutions?
- How does the solution differ from any existing solutions?
Scalability
Scalability of the solution if it is implemented and realized.
- How many are experiencing the problem that this solution is intended to solve (if applicable)?
- How well does this solution scale?
Solving the SDGs
Does this solution correlate to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and how well does it solve the challenge it is intended to address.
- How well does the solution correlate to the SDGs?
- In what respect does the solution solve one or more of the SDGs?
- How many in the solutions target audience would experience an improvement and how extensive would that improvement be?
Team
Team structure, functionality, adaptability and potential to scale a solution successfully
- How well is the team suited to realize the solution?
- Has the team reflected on any additional needs in the team structure to realize the solution?
- Are the members of this team motivated to invest time and energy to realize this solution?
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Our mentors for
Hack for Earth Youth Hackathon at COP27


Ameen Raad Hadeed
Strategy and Innovation Consultant
Independent consultant - Former Takween Accelerator
Business Strategy Startup fundraising
Amen
Consultant within Hydroponics
Private
Agriculture


Babu Ram Shankar
Associate Director
AstraZeneca
Sustainability Lifesciences/Pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning