Episode 11: Hack the Planet

Disrupt Development

Many courageous organisations are taking on major humanitarian and sustainability challenges. Hack The Planet offers these organisations new perspectives on challenges, accelerating their efforts by creating and implementing smart and pragmatic technologies in collaborative projects.

In todays episode Tim van Deursen is going to talk about how technology offers new perspectives on global challenges. We will talk about Meet the Soldier, an international award wining innovative project that disrupts peacebuilding and conflict reconciliation through virtual reality. And we will talk about Hack the Poacher, a groundbreaking project that captures poachers through technology.

Tim van Deursen founded Hack The Planet, a social enterprise that offers non-profits smart and pragmatic technologies to solve societal problems. Tim is an engineer on a mission to make a positive contribution to the world. He wants to super charge (high)tech ideas and concepts needed to solve global challenges. Tim believes many challenges we nowadays have can benefit from smart and easy to deploy technology. “Technology can and needs to be part of solving global challenges therefore, with Hack The Planet we are making this happen”.

Check out the trailer of Meet the Soldier here