Discovering our region’s environment and biodiversity
How might ACT data encourage children and young people to appreciate and engage with Canberra’s environment and biodiversity?
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Team Name:
Hide and Seek
Team Members:
Bindii
Project Info
Team Name
Hide and Seek
Team Members
Onur , Adriaan , Vilka , Alex , Adam , Mel and 4 other members with unpublished profiles.
Project Description
What is Bindii
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Bindii is a fun and interactive mobile app that teaches kids about our native flora and fauna while they explore outside.
Kids can find, identify and collect native animal and plant characters using an augmented reality experience (think Pokemon Go). Kids will learn about the character, where they live and how to find them. When kids then find a real world equivalent of our characters and upload a photo, they will receive points and bonuses towards rewards in the app.
Fill up an interactive botanical zoo and watch it flourish.
Track progress against friends and compete for bounties on unique flora and fauna (including dangerous grasses and fruitflies)
We have a passion for the conservation and perpetuation of Australia’s wildlife. We value and respect all flora and fauna within our diverse biomes. We understand and value each animal and plants contribution to these environments.
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Our Mission
Our mission is to educate the younger generations of Australians, helping preserve the rich biodiversity of Australia’s wildlife. We seek to enrich the lives of our future generations and that of the ‘bush’ through informed exploration.
By giving the community, especially those in their formative years, ownership of Australia’s environmental future we aim to create a bond between human and bushland.
Through the efforts of the community we aim to compile a repository of data that will in turn allow our government to implement effective strategies to safeguard our environment.
Our core values
We have a passion for the conservation and perpetuation of Australia’s wildlife. We value and respect all flora and fauna within our diverse biomes. We understand and value each animal and plants contribution to these environments.
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Data Story
We all live incredibly busy lives. Being in the technology industry you would know this well. We are always on the go, then on top of this we wish to help our children live healthier and more active lives. However, while we are doing this all our children see is us using our technology for our business calls, coding and the management of our lives; it is natural that they would do the same.
Bindii utilises the technology our children are so familiar with rather than fights against it. We wanted to find a way to marry the issue of children’s inactivity and a general lack of community awareness of the environment with conservation. We have used data from ACTmapi EPD and ArcGIS Environment displays as the foundation for an interactive polygon heatmap game.
When users of Bindii take photos of wildlife, key relevant metadata is sent to our crowdsourced API repository. Allowing us to gather data on wildlife numbers, health, genome, location and look while keeping private data private. This repository will provide governmental and conservation bodies with the raw data they require to implement key policy reforms.
Team DataSets
MBRC Planning Scheme - Environmental Areas Overlay
Description of Use Additional geolocation data for populating sections of the map with Flora and Fauna. This data set does not contain any existing sighted flora or fauna.
Land Systems Katherine Darwin Region
Description of Use Used as part of the bounties feature of the app - geolocation data to be used for the map for where Gamba Grass bounties will be populated.
Threatened Plants
Description of Use Geo data used for setting areas & boundaries in the app's map, and the metadata will be used to identify previously sighted Flora.
Threatened Fauna Habitat
Description of Use Geo data used for setting areas & boundaries in the app's map, and the metadata will be used to identify previously sighted Fauna, as well as populate with virtual fauna.
Challenge Entries
How can we beat Gamba Grass?
How can we reduce the risk of fire and damage caused by gamba grass to the natural environment, life, property and infrastructure?
Go to Challenge | 8 teams have entered this challenge.
Protecting South Australian growers from Fruit Fly
How might we use data to communicate where fruit fly are being detected so we can notify the right growers as quickly and accurately as possible?
Go to Challenge | 5 teams have entered this challenge.
Moreton Bay greening as we grow
How might we harness the power of the everyday citizen to help protect our diverse flora and fauna as we grow our region; creating a diverse and flourishing planet for generations to come?
Go to Challenge | 9 teams have entered this challenge.