COLLABATHON
2019
2019 COLLABATHON TIMELINE
OCTOBER
1st - 30th
Prompt Submission
Submit your suggestions for prompts that you would like to work on.
NOVEMBER
15th - 17th
COLLABATHON
Global hack on Yale Campus, global nodes or remote.
18th - 24th
Sprint 1
Further develop of your work remotely to bring your prompt to greater maturity.
25th - 30th
Sprint 2
Fix the last bugs and fully integrate your prompt into the platform.
DECEMBER
2nd - 13th
DECEMBER
COP25
We will be presenting the Open Climate platform and the outcomes of the collabathon in a side event at the Climate Change Conference in Madrid.
NODES
The 2019 Collabathon was hosted at various nodes across the globe.
SINGAPORE
Nov 16th
10am - 6pm
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The Data Driven EnviroLab at Yale-NUS College in Singapore is hosting a Collabathon instance on Saturday, November 16th.
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Partners:
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Yale-NUS College
Classroom 16
16 #01-220, College Ave West, Singapore 138527
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BERLIN
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Nov 16th - 17th
11am - 10pm
The Net Impact club of ESMT Berlin is hosting a two-day Collabathon instance at ESMT.
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Partners:
The Drivery
Mariendorfer Damm 1, 12099 Berlin,
Germany
PARIS
Nov 16th - 17th
10am - 4pm
HEC Paris is hosting a two-day Collabathon instance with Ecole 42.
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Partners:
HEC Paris
Rooms S123-S126
1 Rue de la Libération, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France
MELBOURNE
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Nov 22nd
3pm - 7pm
The Australian-German Climate and Energy College at the University of Melbourne is hosting a collabathon instance.
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Partners:
Australian-German Climate and Energy College
Level 1
187 Grattan Street,
Carlton, VIC 3053
Australia
MANILA
Nov 16th - 17th
9am - 12pm
The Asian Institute of Management is hosting a collabathon instance in Manila.
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Partners:
AIM Campus
FPH Caseroom,
123 Paseo de Roxas,
1229 Metro Manila, Philippines
Sensorica, who is also platform partner and prompt host, will be hosting a Collabathon instance on Saturday and Sunday.
Partners:
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MONTREAL
Nov 16th - 17th
10am - 4pm
SENSORICA Montreal Lab
160 Saint-Viateur East, #505 (5th floor)
Montreal (Québec) H2T1A8,
Canada
SHANGHAI
Nov 23rd
11am - 6pm
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University is going to host a Collabathon instance on November 23rd.
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Partners:
Shanghai JiaoTong University
Shanghai,
China
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LOS ANGELES
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Nov 23rd
10am - 6pm
Verses.io is hosting a Collabathon instance in Los Angeles on November 23rd.
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Partners:
Phase Two
5877 Obama Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90016,
United States
Yale campus weekend program
FRIDAY (Optional)
06.00 - 06.30 pm
06.30 - 07.00 pm
07.00 - 07.30 pm
07.30
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Early Registration
Opening Speech
Climate Bootcamp
Team matching & Gathering
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SATURDAY
08.30 - 09.00 am
09.00 - 10.30 am
10.30 am
07.30 pm
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Registration & Breakfast
Welcome & Guidelines
Global Hack starts
Dinner
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SUNDAY
08.30 - 09.30 am
09.30 - 12.30 pm
12.30 - 01.30 pm
01.30 - 06.30 pm
06.30 - 07.30 pm
Breakfast
Hack
Lunch & What's Next?
Sprint & Wrap up
Collective Cleanup​
All sessions and the main hall will be broadcasted to global nodes and remote hackers.
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Please note that the program will evolve until the collabathon. All times are in EST.
SELECTED PROMPTS & BOUNTIES
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We are providing different challenges for you to solve. You can choose the climate that you are most passionate about and work on one of its specific promts, or tackle a specific technical bounty.
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DOMAIN-BASED PROMPTS
EARTH SYSTEM STATE
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Earth's Carbon Ledger — Build a near real-time atmospheric carbon budget counter with decentralized scientific consensus. See Prompt >
WORLD SYSTEM REGISTRIES
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The Paris Smart Contract Agreement — We started to transcribe the Paris Agreement into an Ethereum-based solidity smart contract. Improve & extend it!. See Prompt >
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Spatial contracts for Nested Accounting — Develop metadata schemas and contracts so that the mitigation and adaptation outcomes of non-state actors —like cities, companies and individuals— can be included and accounted under the respective Nationally Determined Contributions where they are retire. See Prompt >
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Global Meta Registry — Our partners began developing a global climate warehouse to host the global mitigation outcomes that could be traded under article 6 of the Paris Agreement. See the architecture and contribute. See Bounties >
CLIMATE ACTION CERTIFICATION
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Energy & Carbon Oracle servers — Use data science and machine learning to build an open oracle that can cross-verify both the energy data used to certify renewable energy credits, and calculations for displaced carbon associated to it. See Prompt >
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Land-based mitigation certifications — Work with partners to link remote sensing data for the process of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of land-based mitigations. See Prompt >
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Adaptation certifications — Work with prompt partners to implement protocols for climate vulnerability reduction and project tracking for adaptation certifications. See Prompt >
NETWORKED CLIMATE MARKETS
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Fungibility contracts in Networked Climate Markets — Design smart contract that can allow interoperability between digital assets of climate mitigations so that they may operate in different international markets. See Prompt >
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ITMO Terminal — Article 6 of the Paris Agreement allows for the international transfer of mitigation outcomes so that parties can collaborate on their 'NDC'. Design a prototype of an investment and trading 'Terminal' that can act as a one-stop portal See Prompt >
CLIMATE FINANCE
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Climate Bond platform — Climate bonds are a great financial instrument to help fund mitigation and adaptation actions. Propose a platform the can streamline the issuance and monitoring of bonds. See Prompt >
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Carbon pricing automation — Design a smart contract that can automate the calculation and collection of a global carbon price based on provable GHG emissions. See Prompt >
AWARDS
The Collabathon is not about winning, nor about competition. We are creating a collaborative environment to ignite a global movement that inspires the cooperation of all planetary stakeholders on solving the climate challenge.
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We are nonetheless rewarding your contributions to show our appreciation for your participation.
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CATEGORIES
Most collaborative team
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The Yale Open Lab team will judge the collaboration and mutual support across teams based on your activities in the digital collabathon space.
Most innovative contribution
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Judges will choose the most innovative contribution based on the value and creativity of your contribution (code, prompt documentation, ideas etc.)
Most effective
hack
The entire Collabathon community will judge on the most effective hack by upvoting team contributions.
RECIPIENTS
The whole group of active participants that have made this first Collabathon a reality and a success.
Climate COPs & Consumer Disclosure in Supply Chains
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CaptAIM Plan8 - Climetrics
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REWARDS
$700 worth of
carbon offsets
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Your team can decide whether you would like to receive your award in cash or buy credits for carbon offsets
Immortalization
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Your team will be registered on the blockchain to eternalize the recognition of your contribution to this project
COP25 Kudos
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Participants and awarded teams will be announced at the COP25 presentation
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Certificate
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All participants and awarded teams will receive a certificate to honor your contribution