1st Place: $5,000
Electronic Component Validation Tool for New Product Development Le-Marie Thompson; Founder, Nettadonna, LLC Bowie, MDThis product idea addresses the challenge of companies unintentionally sourcing microelectronic components from suppliers that produce components using conflict materials. The tool would fill this gap by providing product designers a way to assess and validate that a component has ‘conflict free’ status during the design and development phase for new products.
2nd Place: $3,000
Conscious Vacations Fiona Mati KenyaConscious Vacations seeks to put pressure on state perpetrators (and those that enable them) by promoting socially-conscious tourism. Conscious Vacations intends to inform potential tourists by sharing data such as the amount of government expenditures spent on security or defense as opposed to other social sectors, incidents of mass atrocities (and other rights abuses) as well as the amount of government revenues raised from the tourism sector.
3rd Place: $2,000
Combining Front-Line Research with Cutting-Edge Data Mining Technology to Identify and Stop Enablers of Mass Atrocities The Enough Project Washington, DCThis project proposes using current platforms for culling, integrating, and analyzing data from various public and private sources—such as those being designed by Palantir for the defense and intelligence communities—to reveal financial relationships and transactions that were previously hidden. The project would combine this analysis with field research and reports from local partners.
Honorable Mention
A Method of Identifying and Spotlighting Enablers of Mass Atrocities: Revealing the Ecosystem of Violence - Food Web as Atrocity Web Michael Ricciardi Pacific Northwest, USAThe “Atrocity Web” proposes adapting a highly successful model/method derived from an ecosystem analysis which seeks to identify the most critical species in a given (ecological) “food web.” This Solver would apply the food web analysis to the task of identifying (potential and actual) enablers of atrocities in a hypothetical “atrocity web.”
