Adrien Pajot
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WILDLABS
Fauna & Flora
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The Boring Fund supports the essential but overlooked aspects of conservation technology. With the support of Arm, $50,000 in grants will go to critical, foundational activities that will help build a more resilient and effective conservation tech ecosystem. Apply today!
For more information, visit the launch page and further information page.
Questions?
Is something unclear? Do you want to know if you are eligible? We will try to answer all your questions in this thread!
If you think that a question has already been asked, don't hesitate to ask again. We are here to ensure that there are no obstacles for your application!
16 September 2024 9:24pm
I’ve got a good idea for this! It’s comprised of three elements:
An educational platform (e.g. like coursera etc.) with guides/courses explaining how to perform various software tasks such as training image classifiers, acoustic classifiers, data preprocessing, etc.; then how to build various hardware such as camera traps, RFID trackers, work with existing hardware. Regarding the hardware, showing how to work with the type of parts which are available in the places that wildlife folks are residing vs. the most expensive stuff from global north- Server with GPU, and GUI, so that researchers can easily train their AI models for free. The costs of using google collab etc can be very prohibitive!
- Central repository server for wildlife datasets. Since these can be very hard to get hold of! * this will be the same server as above, so datasets don’t have to be downloaded + uploaded, which can be major issue in places w slow internet or reliant on paying for 4G instead
Agripina Cletus
Frankfurt Zoological Society
18 September 2024 7:05pm
Hello Adrien!!
I noticed that the budget template asks for the organization’s name. what about the project aimed at supporting the WILDLABS community initiative, would it be appropriate to list WILDLABS as the organization name, or is there a specific entity we should refer for such community-driven projects?
Adrien Pajot
WILDLABS
Fauna & Flora
20 September 2024 9:27am
Question received via email: Are there any geographical restrictions for applying to The Boring Fund?
Answer: No, there are none. You are welcome to apply from anywhere in the world!
Adrien Pajot
WILDLABS
Fauna & Flora
24 September 2024 9:59am
In response to some inquiries we have received, we want to emphasize that this fund is strictly intended to support the more "boring" aspects of your conservation technology projects, as outlined on the list on the homepage.
Unlike the WILDLABS Awards (which will soon open for a new round), we will not be funding technology innovation, adoption, or scalability initiatives.
Neil Sheridan