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It is initiatives like this one that remind us why we do what we do. International collaborations and attentive local contextualization are key to inspire and facilitate lasting positive change. With gratitude to our trusted partners at UNODC , and with excitement for Team Libertech for winning the hackathon, we congratulate all participants of this competitive and important event. The Knowledge Foundation is grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this impactful example of the power of leveraging technology, youth empowerment and meaningful collaborations. Winners of this hackathon were rewarded with, among other things, Knowledge Tokens to be redeemed within the framework of future Knowledge Foundation activities in Mozambique, to be designed with the local ecosystem. We are looking forward to be back in Maputo for new innovative ways to help nurture and strengthen the next generation of mozambican changemakers, software developers and social entrepreneurs. Thank you to the wonderful Team that made this happen. Antonio De Vivo Mari Lakeus Camilla Pavan Anna Kless Aaron Walsh Yane Frenski Leonardo Paradiso Agape Mamphasa Amanda Khuzwayo Keabetswe M. Mbofho Mamatsharaga Universidade Eduardo Mondlane

⏰ Only hours left to go! It is with gratitude to our colleagues at UNODC that we are honored and privileged to be in Hanoi, Viet Nam, for the historic Signing Ceremony of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime . We are pleased to invite all delegates to visit our #VR exhibit and join us in a journey to unlock the transformative power of immersive technology to help prevent and combat cybercrime. Can't make it in person? Learn more and #signup at: https://lnkd.in/eNBuE48u The immersive #VirtualReality learning experiences that we are exhibiting at the #HanoiConvention were created in partnership with talented developers from Bulgaria, Switzerland and South Africa who worked very hard to make this possible, illustrating in real time just how important cross-sectoral international cooperation really is in tackling complex global issues. #HanoiConvention #VR #ImmersiveTechnology #cybercrime #techforgood #KnowledgeToken #Knowken #blockchain #Immersion #ImmersiveEducation Aaron Walsh Leonardo Paradiso Yane Frenski René Hüsler Craig Smith United Nations UNODC Regional Center for Combating Cybercrime in Doha Mustafa Ünal Erten A M Chandra Bahadur Dhami Renata Delgado Schenk Amr El Rahwan Jordi Martin Domingo Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts University of Pretoria Tobias Kreienbühl Diffie Bosman Zander van Beest van Andel Nils Timm

Congratulations to all participants of the recent bootcamp for an intensive week of learning on #humantrafficking , #techforgood , #AI , #blockchain , #designthinking and #socialentrepreneurship . The event was executed in the framework of the upcoming #Hackathon on trafficking in persons organized by UNODC, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane and Knowledge Foundation, which will take place next week in Maputo, Mozambique. It is a privilege and an honor for the Knowledge Foundation to contribute to such inspiring projects. We are grateful to the UNODC colleagues in Maputo for the continued cooperation, and of course to our trusted collaborators at Team Lovelace. We look forward to meet the competitors in person, and help them build innovative technology solutions to tackle the complex issue of human trafficking in Mozambique. Stay tuned to know who the hackathon #winners will be. Aaron Walsh Leonardo Paradiso Yane Frenski Antonio De Vivo Camilla Pavan Mari Lakeus Anna Kless Agape Mamphasa Keabetswe M. Mbofho Mamatsharaga Amanda Khuzwayo

❤️ Empowering young learners through upskilling and networking programs with the aim of building agency and confidence, while opening up opportunities for them to use their skills for important social causes, is at the very heart of the Knowledge Foundation's work. Who, then, better than the students of University of Pretoria (UP) to tell the story of the very first Knowledge Accelerator (#KAx) that we organized and ran in South Africa earlier this year? We are pleased to share with our trusted LinkedIN network the official video of our inaugural #KnowledgeAccelerator and hope that you will find it telling of the great potential that these programs have for learners around the world through which they are 1) incentivized to succeed in their learning journeys, and 2) rewarded for their hard work. A heartfelt thanks goes to our UP colleagues Nils Timm and Linda Marshall for working closely with us to design and implement the program, and to Team Lovelace (Agape Mamphasa, Amanda Khuzwayo, Mbofho Mamatsharaga and Keabetswe M.) for helping us execute it as the official KAx guides who met and worked closely with accelerator participants for 3 hours every Saturday (for an entire semester!) to ensure that they had the skills and confidence to complete their freshman year Computer Science course. A special shoutout also goes to UP's Team Lovelace for not only executing the KAx and collaborating with the Knowledge Foundation on advanced Knowledge Token technology development, but for also helping us support the UNODC Country Office in #Mozambique in organizing the very important hackathon focused on building solutions for #TraffickingInPersons. And, naturally, a special thanks goes to our own Aaron Walsh, Leonardo Paradiso and Yane Frenski for their continued leadership and vision. #KnowledgeToken can power not just education and training programs, but, as we are seeing, it opens new doors and expands horizons along the path to building the #InternetOfEducation. Video created by: Nomaan Hazarvi #GlobalLearning #EducationForAll  #EdTech #Knowken #KnowledgeFoundation #UnitedNations #SDG #SustainableDevelopment #SD4 #QualityEducation René Hüsler Craig Smith Seani Rananga Vukosi Marivate Diffie Bosman Jacquelene Friedenthal Radhakrishna Dasari Civic Tech Innovation Network Siwe Ntombela Yasmin Shapurjee

#VirtualReality #Hackathon Winners Announced We are pleased to announce that the Knowledge Foundation 2025 #VR Hackathon recently held in Burgas, Bulgaria 🇧🇬 has concluded, with the winning teams claiming victory, prizes and prestige. The 2025 VR Hackathon, held to advance the mission of the #UnitedNations UNODC Regional Center for Combating Cybercrime in Doha, was co-organized with CreaTech Bulgaria and UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Center for Combating Cybercrime to inspire the creative minds of talented creatives and developers to conceive and develop engaging, innovative, interactive and immersive virtual experiences on the topic of cybercrimes. Subsequent engagements will challenge competitors to integrate the Internet Computer rendition of #KnowledgeToken (https://lnkd.in/ezjtkuq3) into the winning VR solutions that were developed during the 2025 VR Hackathon. Prizes and Prestige The 1st PLACE team has won sponsorship by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to present their winning solution at the signing ceremony and high-level conference of the newly adopted United Nations Convention against Cybercrime  in Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳 this October, with all expenses covered.  The TOP 3 PLACES have won complimentary tickets (€399.00 value) by Web3 Foundation to attend and present their solutions at the #Web3Summit in Berlin 🇩🇪 with the TOP SOLO competitor winning the Vizipedia professional engagement award. ALL COMPETITORS received €250 in Knowledge Tokens (https://lnkd.in/ezjtkuq3) that may be redeemed for entrance to any Knowledge Foundation or Immersive Education Initiative event in 2026. Winners of the 2025 VR Hackathon 1st place Nikoleta Zhecheva, Boris Stefanov and Dinko Sotirov (Team NN) 2nd place Alexander Nasonov, Yana Artischeva and Andrey Klenin (Team Ideal Bureaucracy) 3rd place Todor Petroveu (solo competitor) Special Acknowledgements Team New Direction: Atanas Konarov and Denislav Prodanov Team PPMG: Lizaveta Kapusta, Kiril Ibragimov, Anna-Maria Dalakmanova, Plamen Momchev, Simeon Vangelov,
Radena Yaneva, Lubomir Ivanov, Yoan Petkov, Hristian Nefedov Well done to all participants and thank you to the Municipality of Burgas for a great event! Multi-stakeholder collaborations are the key to advancing impactful, socially responsible use of #EmergingTechnologies. We are proud to partner with UNODC, DFINITY Foundation, Web3 Foundation, CreaTech and many more for sharing this vision with us. We will now work closely with Team NN to build an innovative #VR solution to help fight and prevent cybercrime. We are grateful to contribute to global efforts in engaging civil society and the tech sector towards the implementation of the #HanoiConvention. Aaron Walsh Amr El Rahwan Jordi Martin Domingo Mustafa Ünal Erten A M Chandra Bahadur Dhami Genoveva Christova Radhakrishna Dasari, Ph.D. Yane Frenski Leonardo Paradiso René Hüsler Craig Smith

💥 Prizes & Prestige! 💥 #VR #Hackathon for the United Nations Global Programme on #Cybercrimes is open to all. The Knowledge Foundation, a non-profit Swiss educational organization chartered to advance global education through the application of advanced and emerging technologies, and CreaTech Bulgaria are organizing a VR Hackathon in Burgas, Bulgaria, 25-26 June 2025. The event is a friendly competition among creative technologists dedicated to using #immersive technologies (such as #Virtual #Reality) and creativity to design interesting solutions to real world social issues. The topic of the VR Hackathon is #cybersafety and #cybercrime resilience, and is held in collaboration with the United Nations Global Programme on #Cybercrimes. A subsequent hackathon, to be held in #Berlin, Germany, will challenge competitors to integrate #Knowledge #Token into the winning VR solutions that are developed during the Burgas hackathon. The Berlin hackathon will focus on integrating the #Internet #Computer rendition of #KnowledgeToken into the winning VR solutions. The VR Hackathon, organized in collaboration with the CreaTech Black Sea Game Summit, and supported by the Municipality of Burgas, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the Web3 Foundation, is the first of its type and is anticipated to become an annual event that brings together the young #immersive and #gaming talents of the South East European region and beyond. For details and to sign-up visit: https://lnkd.in/eTFCQ2V2 #EducationForAll #EdTech #KnowledgeToken #Knowken #KnowledgeFoundation #Immersion #UnitedNations #SDG #SustainableDevelopment #SD4 #QualityEducation #blockchain #blockchain #BlockchainForGood Aaron Walsh  Leonardo Paradiso  Yane Frenski René Hüsler  Craig Smith UNODC Renata Delgado Schenk Mustafa Ünal Erten A M Chandra Bahadur Dhami CreaTech Bulgaria Genoveva Christova  Joanna K. Web3 Foundation Radhakrishna Dasari DFINITY Emilio Canessa 🟠 Emma Peretti Lomesh Dutta ∞ Tracy Trachsler Riccardo Coli Bruno Calabretta Dieter M. Sommer Chris Robertson Sebastian Imbach  Benjamin Imbach Dr. Fatema Al Sulaiti د.فاطمة السليطي Rikke Holm Petersen Antony Martini Alex Panican Leyla Najafzada Mathias Lischer Michelle Abboud

#Virtual #Reality Hackathon! The Knowledge Foundation is calling the most talented and motivated young creative tech enthusiasts with expertise in immersive technologies and game development to conceive and develop engaging, innovative, interactive and immersive virtual experiences on the topic of #cybersafety and #cybercrimes. Form your team or compete solo, join us in beautiful Burgas, Bulgaria, and compete in the 2-day #VirtualReality hackathon (June 27-28) for a chance to win prizes, awards and the rare opportunity to join a prestigious VR development project. Visit https://lnkd.in/e4ugxhrn to sign up for details! #VR #EdTech #KnowledgeToken #Knowken #Immersion #Immersive #hackathon Aaron Walsh Leonardo Paradiso Yane Frenski René Hüsler Craig Smith Renata Delgado Schenk Genoveva Christova Joanna K. Sebastian Imbach Benjamin Imbach Emilio Canessa 🟠 Emma Peretti Lomesh Dutta ∞ Tracy Trachsler Riccardo Coli Bruno Calabretta Dieter M. Sommer Chris Robertson Web3 Foundation Radhakrishna Dasari Dr. Fatema Al Sulaiti د.فاطمة السليطي Rikke Holm Petersen Antony Martini Alex Panican Leyla Najafzada Mathias Lischer Michelle Abboud

🌍 Incentivizing education on a global scale - the newly established Knowledge Foundation has its global headquarters in Lucerne, Switzerland. Its charter: to create an open, inclusive educational ecosystem through the application of advanced and emerging technologies such as Knowledge Token®, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and blockchain. “We are proud and delighted that the Knowledge Foundation has chosen Lucerne as its home. From Switzerland, it will inspire and drive forward this important and groundbreaking movement on a global scale.” – Mathias Lischer, Head of Global FDI, Lucerne Business. Knowledge Foundation was founded in partnership with the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) and the Immersive Education Initiative (https://lnkd.in/ejimXFqv). "The Knowledge Foundation has benefited greatly by working closely with HSLU faculty and students to advance the Knowledge Token® global education platform and corresponding Open International Standards (OIS) for blockchain in the field of education." - Aaron Walsh, Founder, Knowledge Foundation. More details can be found here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFGCuenv And here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eWVHAggc #WirtschaftsstandortLuzern #Blockchain #Bildung #EducationForAll #EdTech #KnowledgeToken #BlockchainForGood #AI #GlobalLearning #KnowledgeFoundation #blockchain #immersive #SDG #SustainableDevelopment #SD4 Aaron Walsh René Hüsler Leonardo Paradiso Yane Frenski Mathias Lischer Ivan Buck Swiss Business Hub USA Swiss Business Hub Canada Switzerland Global Enterprise Nadine Rotzer Sarah Bieri Viktor Vogt Lisette Mury Consulate General of Switzerland in New York Invest in Switzerland Presence Switzerland Business Location Switzerland