The Babylon Project: A Blockchain Focused Hackathon and Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
World Blockchain Hackathon, a 100% community funded global organization, have announced the details of their latest hackathon on October 9 -11, 2020, a 3-day global virtual event that will attract more than 3000 participants and contributions across 50 countries. The Babylon Project aims to democratize access to global innovation with blockchain technology: its a project that aims on developing a new generation of diverse leaders in the crypto community within the next 5 years.
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Key Takeaways:
— Community focused, protocol agnostic blockchain hackathon w/ 3000 global participants
— Focusing on diversity and inclusion, with international ‘Supernode’ ambassadors
— 200 international mentors, investors & tech community partners
Babylon, from its history, is what many consider to be the cradle of civilization – the first time a complex societal structure came into existence by bringing together different people under one common vision to build. Gideon Nweze, the founder of World Blockchain Hackathon, is aiming to do the same with the Babylon Project, a hackathon that will focus on teaching developmental skills in blockchain and building an accompanying protocol-agnostic developer community.
“The way I see blockchain,” Gideon says, “is the same way I see the rise of electricity in the late 1800s or the internet in the late 1900s. We’re at a time where one revolutionary idea can create a significant amount of technological change in a short amount of time. Though I’ve been involved with blockchain for a long time, I have noticed that there isn’t an easy way to onboard those who aren’t familiar with this technology yet, and that it’s fairly difficult to actually teach people the skills to make an impact in this ecosystem. This is what I want to change with the Babylon Project.”
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The Babylon Project is a protocol agnostic and community focused hackathon. For this reason, partnership is free and open to respected global and local organizations that have aligned visions. Chukwudi Derek Uche, the CoFounder and CEO of Village, a startup aiming to create an alternative to real estate ownership, is an active contributor to the hackathon. “Blockchain technology is still nascent, but for it to grow to its potential, we need to educate everyone about it,” Chukwudi says. “We need to show people what the world can look like in ten, twenty, thirty years with it, and get enough current outsiders to believe the same vision the people in this community do.”
Hackathons, short for “hacking marathons,” are mini-conventions where designers, developers, and project managers congregate and fraction themselves into teams to make a product demo within a confined amount of time, usually between two and three days. They are essentially as old as the tech industry itself, and many products and companies were born from hackathons. Moreover, though, hackathons serve the purpose of creating an environment and a community willing to listen, network, and, most importantly, build.
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