Last Friday, a group of Italian and international hackers literally invaded headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)
in Rome for a United States (US)- government-sponsored ‘Fishackathon’ reports
NaijaAgroNet.
The Fishackathon, NaijaAgroNet reports, was aimed at cooking
up high-tech solutions to problems that have long plagued fishing communities
around the globe.
The Assistant Director-General of FAO's Fisheries and
Aquaculture Department, Árni M. Mathiesen, said that working in teams in a
marathon hacking session, the group of around 30 coders, technology students,
developers and designers will be asked to harness FAO data to develop creative
mobile applications, systems, and tools to help tackle key challenges facing
sustainable fisheries.
Mathiesen also said that these range from illegal,
unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, to overfishing and degradation of
fishing grounds, to post harvest losses of catches.
Teams of 2-8 people joined forces to brainstorm solutions
that responses to one of nine fisheries-related problem statements to be
provided.
On Sunday, FAO experts would judge the submissions and one
team will be chosen as the winner.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that the exercise now in its third
year, the Fishackathon was first launched in 2014 by US Secretary of State John
Kerry at the Our Oceans conference is an event taking place in 40 cities around
the globe.
The winners of each, including this weekend's Italian
edition, will move forward into a global contest whose final outcome will be
announced by the US government on June 8 at World Oceans Day 2016.
Last year's Fishackathon winners included a game to teach
children about sustainable fishing, an app to help consumers find and eat
sustainable seafood, and a reporting tool for marine mammal protection.
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