GDST Cologne Trackathon, 21-22 October 2019

The Global Dialogue is hosting its second Seafood Trackathon of 2019!

Building upon the successes of the first Seafood Trackathon, held in Bangkok earlier this year, GDST is organizing a second hackathon in partnership with fTRACE and GS1 Germany. Interoperable traceability systems are a critical resource in the fight against Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated seafood. This is a chance to compete to create innovative solutions to preserve ocean sustainability and providing consumers tools to make informed decisions on the seafood products they buy.

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Challenge categories:

Key Data Element Verification– create data validation protocols and access permissions for key data elements captured on vessel Interoperability using EPCIS– develop tools to read and write traceability data in leveraging GDST adapted EPCIS format Identifier Technology– leverage existing identification technology to capture and transmit product provenance information Blockchain Integration– develop traceability data transmission applications utilizing blockchain

Preview some of the challenges here in the updates section.

Learn

Using a collaborative problem-solving approach, we will produce open-source solutions to challenges the seafood industry currently faces. Join us to understand what the seafood industry has created in the last two years to set the rules of the game for interoperable traceability - from aligning and defining what information should be collected on the water to how that information is formatted, and how this framework will help everyone from fishers to consumers. Join the hackathon so you can develop solutions that afford small-scale fishers a greater access to new markets. Create apps that tell the story of sustainably caught seafood. Contemplate big questions around data quality and data verification challenges.

Network

The GDST has brought together over 60 producers, processors, and retailers from the seafood industry from around the world. We have the biggest names in seafood talking about traceability. More than that, we have the attention of technical solutions providers, NGOs, certifiers, governments and the like. Join this hackathon to hear what they are thinking about in terms of the future of traceability, work with their tools and seize the chance to share your solutions with them!

Sponsors

A number of organizations are supporting the GDST Trackathon through content-related challenge statements, financial or other organizational support.

Bali Trackathon

We will be hosting another trackathon on 26-27 October 2019 in Bali with SecondMuse and the USAID Oceans and Fisheries Partnership. Find out more here.

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