The optimization of agricultural techniques is sufficient for self-sustainability.
The lack of "free" knowledge is the biggest challenge.
We propose a Dapp, where people can access to agricultural techniques,
and the ability to improve, share and create new ones in Cardano.
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Using novel technologies to optimize agricultural techniques is a sufficient requirement for modern societies to be self-sustainable.
Our team's vision is to create a tool, with which people around the world can use in order to improve the environment, focusing now on agricultural techniques mainly.
Using Cardano's blockchain technologies, we can implement a Dapp, where people can access tips and tricks, video content, and forums in connection with agriculture to improve their environment and way of living.
The idea is that there would be so-called "legacy" content about specific topics, which are peer-reviewed by relevant professionals, and could be accessed by the users.
Furthermore, using forks (like on Github) one can improve legacy contents, and create their own versions. This is really important because legacy techniques most probably used in very different environments (different humidity, temperature, and so on), therefore it is necessary to make techniques suitable for a specific environment.
People in the Cardano ecosystem, very similarly to Catalyst, could vote for these newly proposed ideas, share them, and create threads and open discussions which are all public. During this process, like an evolutionary process, ideas going to be naturally selected, finding their "niches".
For example, let's say an Ethiopian farmer decides to grow corn in his land.
He opens up the Dapp we propose, and he searches for relevant content with keywords such as: "corn","growing corn", "Ethiopia".
The search engine finds the most relevant information.
Let's imagine that the Dapp is in the really early phase, so the farmer finds some legacy information, where corn was grown by a Hungarian farmer.
Despite the very significant differences between the two countries' climate, the farmer learns a lot about agricultural technologies used in Hungary. And probably he finds several other countries in the legacy content.
He decides to implement some of the techniques and he tries them out.
He maybe also create posts, updates, visual content about the adaptation and usage of new technologies.
After a year he can also post some results, and create a fork of his own version, sharing with other farmers in the region, who also may be adopting some of the techniques.
Slowly but surely by the selection, techniques going to be fixated in that part of the world, improving the lives of people significantly.
Also, as a general framework, this Dapp could be used for waste collection and management, green energy usage, and so on.
If this proposal would be selected, we would start to implement a demo version of the application with a limited number of contents (starting with the most relevant and most adaptable topics) and we would improve it in the future.
We would like to make the project completely open-source as well.
Some footages of our relevant projects:
A.I. application system for Personal Protective Equipment surveillance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-XFjXwMXeg
Agriculture, grape, and leaf object detector system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcfGg0PMWw&t=58s
Automatic computer visio based sport (here soccer) broadcasting AI and camera system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Zx-GZFGlc
15000I am a Biophysicist by training (just finishing PhD) and also an entrepreneur.
Our team is building A.I. applications for industrial usage.