I won the ANTOR-JAPAN Award at ‘Think Regional Revitalization in Tokyo! RESAS API Hackathon’.

Background: My First Hackathon

I was invited by a friend and participated in my first hackathon 🏆

I participated as an engineer (working professional) 👨‍💻

Ideathon

Passionate presenters who missed the voting selection but really wanted to try

Region: Iwate Prefecture “The target is all of Japan, but we want to start from Iwate Prefecture. What I want to create is a social operation system. A mechanism to operate a new society. We want to realize local economic vouchers unique to local governments, visualize them on a dashboard, and create a solution where local residents and local governments can visualize in real time. Specifically, we will realize local currency based on blockchain and create a dashboard that can visualize currency exchanges between local governments, companies, and individuals.”

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Interim Presentation

1. ZenOS (Iwate Prefecture) 　First, the team that chose Iwate Prefecture. The team name became "ZenOS." They chose Iwate because it's a region working hard on regional revitalization, and announced they would "provide new local government management mechanisms using IT solutions to companies, organizations, and local people who don't have IT knowledge." Referring to Estonia's example, they said they would provide a system where anyone can issue virtual currency, send and receive that currency with messenger, and create communities. At the time of this interim presentation, they had created a send/receive system using blockchain. They also created a web-based messenger where send/receive could be done. After this, they announced they would create a management screen and a system that could real-time detect and visualize who used currency when, where, and how much.

　After the presentation, Tokonami from TeamLab asked about implementation examples, and they explained Estonia’s examples of creating and operating economic zones using blockchain-based virtual currency. They also explained the benefits of using blockchain.

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3-minute Final Presentation

1. Zen OS (Iwate Prefecture)

　The first presenter was team “Zen OS.” The work began with “We propose a service to create society in order to change society,” based on Estonia’s blockchain-adopted virtual currency.

　Since the concept itself was large and targeted the entire regional society, rather than actually running something, they focused on explaining the overall mechanism and the point that using blockchain enables real-time transaction visualization. Around when they said “We want to propose this as a way to create communities,” time ran out.

　Judges asked if they were assuming users, and they answered “We want communities like companies, local governments, and religious groups to use the currency.”

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Award Announcement

＜ANTOR-JAPAN Award＞ 　Next, the "ANTOR-JAPAN Award" given to the most global work. The prize was "5,000 yen gift certificate." The presenter was ANTOR-JAPAN Secretariat Keitaro Nakayama.

　The winning team was “Zen OS.”

　They awarded the prize with the comment “We evaluated the idea that looked to the future, using the new technology of virtual currency.”

　The team members also answered “It’s an honor. While thinking there are legal issues, we thought local currency is an important future challenge.”

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Social Hour

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