The Municipality of The Hague organized the 'Hackathon for good' event during which, experts like Oane Visser coached teams in challenges that support the efforts of a number of international organizations and NGOs.
Oane Visser, associate professor in agrarian food and environmental studies, was involved in the organisation of a Hackathon with the challenge to design tech solutions to identify areas vulnerable to future land acquisitions in order to prevent or mitigate land grabs.
The hackathon led by the Asser Institute, was part of the “Hackathon for Peace, Justice and Security” organised by the Municipality of The Hague on 17-18 November. Out of 120 international participants, with teams from amongst others the UK and India, the CGI team ‘Monkey cage’ won the first prize (of 10,000 euro). It was one of the teams in the land grab challenge, coached by Oane Visser together with colleagues of the Asser Institute.
The winning team developed a programme that maps areas prone to land grabbing based on historic land grab data, geo-physical data and social media use, to predict new land grabs, and enable NGOs and movements to deal with land grabbing proactively
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