Odyssey[1], a blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) hackathon backed by the Dutch government, has announced[2] the winners of this year’s competition.
60 jury panel members elected 19 winning teams. These worked on solving challenges related to topics including digital identity, digital citizenship, inclusive finance and insurance.
The winning teams and solutions of the Odyssey hackathon 2019, divided into 12 verticals, are:
Fossil Free Future:
Frontier Oost: A solution that verifies the energy production of an individual household based on data gathered from external sources.
HorsePower: A virtual mobile power plants for local communities sharing electricity for local line capacity improvement and normalizing demand and supply.
Nature 2.0:
Habari: A new ecosystem of plants, people and machines to protect our food.
Kryha: An artificial natural selection in order to make machines that can build a better planet or even enable life on another planet.
Digital Nation’s Infrastructure:
VX Company: A digital identity solution for buildings which parties can, with permission, add data sources too.
A Solid Web: A solution to enable users to make more informed decisions by giving them detailed insights and full control over their permissions.
ChainMix: A solution for risk minimization and fraud prevention for modern business transactions.
21st Century Digital Citizenship:
Data5: A solution to identify, analyze, solve, and build bridges for all open datasets and provide solutions.
Delft Hackathon Team: An identity groundup based on social structure/hierarchies, so that personal data could be used in other services
Rethink Retirement:
OV Software: A solution focusing on bringing the power of pensions back to the people.
Tradisys: A job marketplace for social organizations and responsible citizens that helps people to retire earlier and make the local community a better place.
International Travel:
idShapers: A digital
