KUCHING, Dec 13: Satok Bridge Digital (SBD), a spin-off of Satok Bridge Area Consulting Engineers Sdn Bhd is one of the winners of the MYHackathon 2022 Cohort 2 (MYHackathon) programme for its innovative solution, GajahSafe.
According to a press release issued by Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak Sarawak (Tegas) Digital Village, SBD developed GajahSafe to address the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries’s (MAFI) problem statement for the MYHackathon programme – “Technological solution to deal with human and wildlife conflicts in agro-food sector’s area”.
GajahSafe is an intelligent AI-based system that can detect elephants from a distance to scare them away, and it is a safe solution to create a healthy ecosystem between humans and elephants, which will reduce conflicts faced today.
Head of Digital of Satok Bridge Area Consulting Engineers Sdn Bhd Lavindar Sing, accepted the prize on behalf of SBD at the MYHackathon closing ceremony which was officiated by the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation’s (MOSTI) secretary general Datuk Dr Aminuddin Hassim in Cyberjaya.
SBD will receive RM250,000 and will work closely with MAFI to refine their execution plan for their proposed solution for the next 12 months.
“We feel incredibly honoured that our solution, GajahSafe, was chosen as the MyHackathon 2022 Cohort 2 winner.
“The journey to get here has been arduous, and we are grateful to all of our family, team, and ecosystem partners, without whom we would not be where we are today.
“Additionally, I want to express my gratitude to MOSTI, Cradle, and Tegas in particular for their support and advice,” said Singh.
Maintaining the theme ‘Hackathon Nasional Untuk Malaysia Inklusif’, the second cohort of MYHackathon was launched on Nov 22, 2022 at Tegas, Sama Jaya High Tech Park, Kuching.
Selected participants went through a two-week bootcamp and one-to-one mentoring sessions from world-class mentors before 20 finalists were chosen for the final round of pitching at Rekascape, Cyberjaya.
“Congratulations to Satok Bridge Digital, the only startup from Sarawak that won the MYHackathon 2022 Cohort 2 programme.
“MYHackathon is one of the many programmes under the national initiative, MYStartup, which commenced last year to support early-stage startups in Malaysia.
“Tegas is proud to be the MYStartup Sarawak Chapter key partner through the Tegas Digital Village, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with MOSTI and Cradle to create more success stories in Sarawak, in line with the Post Covid-19 Development Strategy (PCDS) 2030,” said Deputy Minister of Urban Planning, Land Administration, and Environment Datuk Len Talif Salleh, who is also Tegas chairman.
MYHackathon is Malaysia’s national scale hackathon organised by Cradle Fund Sdn Bhd involving not only technopreneurs, innovators, and subject matter experts but also concerned Malaysians from all walks of life, to come together to co-create digital solutions that will help improve the delivery of key government’s services. — DayakDaily
