{"id":12593,"date":"2021-02-24T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/24\/ripple2wave-incubator-launches-digital-water-hackathon-250000-rd-funds-for-startups-with-solutions-to-tackle-singapore-water-issues\/"},"modified":"2021-02-24T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T09:30:00","slug":"ripple2wave-incubator-launches-digital-water-hackathon-250000-rd-funds-for-startups-with-solutions-to-tackle-singapore-water-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/02\/24\/ripple2wave-incubator-launches-digital-water-hackathon-250000-rd-funds-for-startups-with-solutions-to-tackle-singapore-water-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"ripple2wave Incubator launches Digital Water Hackathon: $250,000 R&#038;D funds for startups with solutions to tackle Singapore water issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; 24 February 2021<b>\u00a0<\/b>&#8211;<b>\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.r2wi.com\/\">Ripple2wave<\/a> (R2WI),&#13;<br \/>\ntogether with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), is organizing&#13;<br \/>\nits first Digital Water Hackathon to grow and nurture high potential startups&#13;<br \/>\nin the area of water technology. Winners will receive prizes including S$50,000&#13;<br \/>\nStartup SG Founder Grant*,\u00a0 S$250,000&#13;<br \/>\npotential R&amp;D funding, and up to S$6,000 Alibaba Cloud credits. Winning&#13;<br \/>\nsolutions will also have guidance to expand globally and get further exposure&#13;<br \/>\ninto the ecosystem. Registration at <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalwaterhackathon.com\">https:\/\/digitalwaterhackathon.com<\/a> closes on&#13;<br \/>\n28 February 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Singapore has set its sights on being&#13;<br \/>\nself-sufficient in water by 2060, while water demand is expected to double in&#13;<br \/>\nthe same time frame. With current technical solutions, such as NEWater and&#13;<br \/>\ndesalination, only 85% of the demand would be met. Infrastructure investments,&#13;<br \/>\nincreasing operational costs required to maintain water systems, manpower&#13;<br \/>\nconstraints, and the impact of climate change are some of the related&#13;<br \/>\nchallenges Singapore&#8217;s water ecosystem is facing. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Given this situation, Singapore has invested&#13;<br \/>\nheavily in becoming a Global HydroHub, continuously evaluating and embracing&#13;<br \/>\nfresh ideas and perspectives to meet the future&#8217;s challenges.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Digital Water Hackathon will contribute&#13;<br \/>\nto these efforts (a) by raising awareness to the importance and challenges of&#13;<br \/>\nwater management and (b) by attracting talent developing digitally based ideas&#13;<br \/>\nand solutions,&#8221; said Dr. Helge Daebel, Managing Director at ripple2wave,&#13;<br \/>\nand added: &#8220;The digital space has proven to deliver solutions giving&#13;<br \/>\nanswer to the complexities of the water space. Singapore can leverage its&#13;<br \/>\nreputation, collaborative ecosystem and talent to become a leader in the&#13;<br \/>\ndigital water space. We look forward to deploying our skills by creating,&#13;<br \/>\nnurturing, and growing related startups.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The Digital Water Hackathon will run from 6 March&#13;<br \/>\n2021 &#8212; 24 June 2021. Participants are provided with six problem statements from&#13;<br \/>\nPUB, Singapore&#8217;s National Water Agency, Optiqua, ZWEEC Analytics and other&#13;<br \/>\nmajor water players in the Singapore Ecosystem. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p><i>*<\/i><i>Subject to&#13;<br \/>\nFulfilment of Startup SG Founder Eligibility Criteria<\/i><i\/><\/p>\n<p><sup>1\u00a0<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pub.gov.sg\/watersupply\/singaporewaterstory\">https:\/\/www.pub.gov.sg\/watersupply\/singaporewaterstory<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/View\/66129#Contact\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE &#8211;\u00a0Media&#13; OutReach\u00a0&#8211; 24 February 2021\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ripple2wave (R2WI),&#13; together with the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), is organizing&#13; its first Digital Water Hackathon to grow and nurture high potential startups&#13; in the area of water technology. Winners will receive prizes including S$50,000&#13; Startup SG Founder Grant*,\u00a0 S$250,000&#13; potential R&amp;D funding, and up to S$6,000 Alibaba &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}