M2M Economy Team OneUp — End world hunger by kickstarting a sustainable entity-2-entity ecosystem
Together with the establishment of world peace, the noblest of goals is to end world hunger. And that is what M2M Economy Team OneUp intends to do. Figure out a way to use technology to eradicate world hunger. And a big question like this might need a team a little bigger than would fit a hackathon. That’s why Team OneUp has enlisted the help of an impressive thinktank of 900 people all ready to help them figure out a way to make good food accessible to every human on the planet. What kind of ecosystem would we need to create to sustainably allow everyone to eat, and to eat well?
The main topic of our team is going to reduce waste of food or make sure that food is accessible for everybody on the planet and that we at least try to solve a little bit of the world hunger problem. So now we’re just focusing on tomatoes to make sure that we have something to work towards and at the end of the hackathon, we want to have a working prototype. Make sure that no tomato goes to waste.
We started off this morning with a bit of a rough start. We were in-house just before 12 PM, our team got together, and we were high fiving each other that we finally made it and then all the lights went off. That was the opening. It was an exciting start. Afterwards, we had some decentralized sessions which were utterly chaotic. I think at 2 PM we already decided on a different team name. So that’s all in the span of like two to three hours.
Lots of things have happened so far. Once you’re in this building and sitting together with this team, you get entirely new radical ideas, and you get to test it along with the team very fast. It’s terrific. It’s such a positive vibe. We’re just working along, and we’re trying things out, and we’re pitching already. And that’s also really fun because it’s pretty much every team is very interested in what other teams are doing.
There are lots of opportunities to shave your plan and test out new things and tools to see how it lands with other Team Captains, and even other developers they are coming around and saying “OK, so what are you doing here?” And we answer “Oh well we’re in a machine to machine economy track,” so that’s already an interesting start because the then just now guys told me “OK so you’re making sure that robots are not going to kill us.” I said, “well maybe another team in the machine to machine economy track could be.” So, lots of crazy stuff going on.
