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To commemorate a milestone of 111 years of technological excellence, the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) volition organise a 111-hour continuous National Hackathon. The inaugural seeks to span the spread betwixt indigenous cognition systems and modern exertion to code captious challenges successful planetary biodiversity conservation.
Officials said the lawsuit would service arsenic a collaborative level wherever contented meets cutting-edge science. ZSI has invited a divers cohort of innovators including students, researchers, technologists, and indigenous cognition holders to co-create sustainable solutions for the earthy world.
The hackathon encourages information from assorted fields to enactment unneurotic connected divers projects specified arsenic mobile and web applications for conservation tracking, AI algorithms and prototypes based connected accepted knowledge, GIS-based mapping and integer cognition repositories, and community-driven argumentation frameworks and conservation proposals.
As portion of the nationalist initiative, the Western Ghat Regional Centre (WGRC) successful Kozhikode volition big a specialised limb of the hackathon connected May 25, 2026. The determination lawsuit volition absorption connected the taxable “Traditional Biodiversity Knowledge successful Kerala/Karnataka”.
Exceptional innovations basal a accidental to triumph prizes of up to ₹1 lakh. The expansive finale of the contention volition beryllium held astatine the ZSI office successful Kolkata. The contention is unfastened to teams of up to 3 members, and determination are nary property restrictions for applicants. The deadline for submitting applications is May 20. Interested participants tin registry done the authoritative portal, www.hackathon.zsi.org.in. For inquiries oregon further information, delight interaction the organising squad astatine 9447470439.
