SDG Awards 2024

Finalist Profile

Welcome to the SDG Awards, a distinguished recognition program honoring the remarkable contributions of individuals, organizations, and initiatives in championing the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Finalist Profile

CAWIL.AI

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SDG Awards 2024

Category - SDG 14 - Life below water

Enhancing sustainable fishing practices through AI-powered species detection and catch recording, which helps preserve marine biodiversity.

➜ Enhancing sustainable fishing practices through AI-powered species detection and catch recording, which helps preserve marine biodiversity.

➜ Providing innovative AI solutions for automated fish catch recording and traceability, enhancing efficiency and sustainability in the seafood.

1. What is the local impact your organization has achieved regarding your selected SDG? (No Word Limit)

We seek to elevate the small-scale fishing communities via AI applications to provide avenues to access the global market. The main problem we are trying to solve is that Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU Fishing) happens in any part of the globe.We created TRACE.AI an automated electronic catch documentation and traceability system for export market compliance in the seafood industry

2. What is the global impact your organization has achieved regarding your selected SDG? (No Word Limit)

to create an end-to-end solution for seafood that will not compromise human well-being, the environment, and the supply chain industry. The proposed software system will have an Automated recording, AI-integrated catch documentation, and reduced person-to-person contact through an interoperable cloud- databases that can easily be integrated into government systems and European compliance of electronic documentation.Our objective is to train fisheries communities to use e-cdt so they can do their own documentation and utilize it for their own convenience.

3. What is the scalability of your innovation and how do you plan to achieve it? (No Word Limit)

Pilot the Low-Cost TrACE.AI Solar-powered Pond Monitoring System for Restorative Aquaculture utilizing artificial intelligence Benchmark the TrACE.AI Pond Monitoring System to enable a central database for the production and traceability of small-scale restorative aquaculture Integration of TrACE.AI system to edge camera devices and Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) for monitoring of labor force activities

4. What is your organization’s unique strategy for using technology to achieve your selected SDG? (150 Words Limit)

Artificial intelligence has become the unique feature of emerging technologies for future-proofing and sustainability of the supply chain. This is one of the distinctive features of TrACE.AI software integrated with wide data sets that can be utilized for stock management, resource mapping, and fishers' financial reference based on the catch and sales volume recorded in their profile.

5. What challenges did you encounter while working for your selected SDG, and how did you address them? (150 Words Limit)

Our challenges were the limited access to smartphones limited technological literacy (on use of phones, internet, etc.) portability of such technology especially with long exposures (and thus danger of gadget damage) to water.limited dedicated capacity-building and orientation on defining objectives for the importance of traceability and thus, an uncertainty about what actions they can and need to do inside the platform.

6. How did you engage local communities and stakeholders in your work, and what was their feedback? (150 Words Limit)

We coordinated with local fisheries office and conducted trainings for students and intern. We have trained a total of 26 fisheries technicians in the province of Bataan, mostly women. We also trained several fisheries interns from Bataan Peninsula State University to use TrACE.AI. We have observed that the learning curve for TrACE.AI is very shallow.

7. Which organizational skills and resources did you use to deliver goods/services without harming the environment or society? (150 Words Limit)

The provincial government and agriculture office helped us to pilot our product & services. They have coordinated with other local government offices to send participants to be trained and invited small-scale fishermen to attend the training. We made our mobile application work mostly for low-cost android phone to eliminate the expensive hardware compatibility. However, internet connection and areas without communication signal is worth noting as constraint in the access of tools.

8. In your view what roles do businesses, governments, and civil society should play in achieving the SDGs, and how can they collaborate effectively? (150 Words Limit)

We partnered with the local government units (LGUs) digital transformation and this includes the agriculture and fisheries industry. We acknowledge the fact that there are more women in the fisheries profession, young blood professionals who are tech-savvy to use the electronic catch documentation & traceability (e-CDT) technology. This is a good use case that the leverage of technology for e-CDT is significant to enhance the participation of women in fisheries not only as laborers but also as professionals.

9. What advice do you have for individuals or organizations aiming to create positive change and support the SDGs? (150 Words Limit)

In creating positive change, private sectors should practice to lead by example, try to integrate the new solutions presented to them to test and create an open collaboration with business, government and civic society to achieve sustainable solutions. Humans need to be integrated with the new technology.

10. How would winning this SDG Award help you enhance your impact and expand your project? (150 Words Limit)

SDG Award will help to reach more concern people in the fisheries and marine sector to adapt to technology as the way to move forward and future proof the industry. This will also create the impactful message that grassroots in the fisheries are heard and included in the decision making to achieve the SDG 14.

11. What are your future objectives regarding your selected SDG? (150 Words Limit)

To enhance TrACE.AI software system integration (AI features) of edge cameras & vessel monitoring devices for labor conditions in commercial fishing vessels To integrate AI-assisted alerts and reminders on IUU Fishing and compliances Benchmark the TrACE.AI Data Center to support the training of stakeholders and fishers in the Local Government Units (e.g. Province of Bataan, Mindoro) for technology adoption and policy framework to outline best practices in the municipal and national level for sustainable technology integration and adoption

SDG Awards 2024

Finalist Profile

Finalist Profile

CAWIL.AI

About Company

SDG Awards 2024

Category - SDG 14 - Life below water

1. What is the local impact your organization has achieved regarding your selected SDG? (No Word Limit)

2. What is the global impact your organization has achieved regarding your selected SDG? (No Word Limit)

3. What is the scalability of your innovation and how do you plan to achieve it? (No Word Limit)

4. What is your organization’s unique strategy for using technology to achieve your selected SDG? (150 Words Limit)

5. What challenges did you encounter while working for your selected SDG, and how did you address them? (150 Words Limit)

6. How did you engage local communities and stakeholders in your work, and what was their feedback? (150 Words Limit)

7. Which organizational skills and resources did you use to deliver goods/services without harming the environment or society? (150 Words Limit)

8. In your view what roles do businesses, governments, and civil society should play in achieving the SDGs, and how can they collaborate effectively? (150 Words Limit)

9. What advice do you have for individuals or organizations aiming to create positive change and support the SDGs? (150 Words Limit)

10. How would winning this SDG Award help you enhance your impact and expand your project? (150 Words Limit)

11. What are your future objectives regarding your selected SDG? (150 Words Limit)

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