The world has been facing identification problems of refugees! It has been very hard to identify the exact number of refugees in the different camps because most of them do not have valid identification documents.
TYkn is a new project aimed at solving this identification problem and a lot has already been done towards this.
You might be wondering what TYkn is, I will state what the project is about, mission and vision below.
Tykn is a project started by Toufic Al Rjula who was a Syrian refugee in the Netherlands, he created this company after being put in a refugee camp and witnessing the hardships many refugees faced in verifying the authenticity of their documents.
The Vision/mission of Tykn is
to help NGOs and governments help people better by providing a digital identity platform that brings the resiliency we want to digital identities. Resiliency to fraud and resiliency permanent loss.
Tykn has already moved places and won numerous awards.
Tykn winning these innovation awards shows how great the project is and also shows the potential this project has in solving refugee identity crisis.
Awards
1. Best ICO Pitch at the Blockchain Innovation Conference 2018
This is the latest award won by TYkn. The Blockchain Innovation Conference took place on June 7 at the Rabobank headquarters in Utrecht.
Source Tykn Website
The theme of the conference was
“Blockchain, from proof of concept to real-world solutions”.
According to the Blockchain Innovation conference website
The event brought together over 400 national and international pioneers from start-ups, the corporate world, and government, to discuss the radical changes Blockchain technology is bringing to all activities that rely on trusted third parties. This year we went from proof of concept to real-world solutions and had the best blockchain cases in Government, Supply Chain, Fintech, Energy, Business, Identity, ICOs and more.
The ICO competition required the competitors to pitch their story to the panel at the conference.
There were 7 participants for the ICO pitch competition in the Blockchain Innovation Conference as stated below.
The selected ICOs were: Attrace, Trustier, Careerchain, Mijn Vastgoed, TYKN, Fissacoin and iCasting:
You can watch this video below showing Tykn being given the First place award
2.Tykn Wins Spindle Innovation Award for Project ZINC 2017
This was another award that Tykn took home, it was sponsored by Partos and Accenture. The Spindle received 22 applications for this competition of which the jury chose only 10 best ideas to join the Spindle Summer Labs.
The competition was stiff as 3 were chosen out of the 10 and this was online-echoes(using user browsing data to connect for positive change), skin App (an app that supports healthcare workers to diagnose and treat skin diseases) and then Zinc by Tykn(create interoperable digital identities using Blockchain technology) which emerged the winner!
Source: Tykn Facebook
You can watch this video below to learnmore of how Tykn won the Spindle Innovation Award 2017
3.Startup Weekend Utrecht -First Place 2016
This was one of the first hackathon that Tykn joined just after its inception in 2016 and they were able to come out victors!
This event has a nice theme as shown below
No Talk, all action. Launch a startup in 54 hours!
Have a great idea? Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Want to learn more about startups? Startup Weekend is the place for you!
It is an intensive 3 -day hackathon powered by Google.Tykn were able to develop a working prototype that helped them earn first place.
Source: Start up Weekend Facebook
This Start up Weekend hackathon enables teams pitch and idea and select a team, build something real with your selected team(utilize the different talents) and then launch to the judges.
Other TYkn Achievements
1.Rockstart Selects Tykn Among other 1100+Applications to join Accelerator 2017
This followed just after the success of Tykn at the Start Up Weekend. TYkn was chosen with other 9 startups to be included in the 1100+ applicants that year.
Source: Tykn Blog
The other 9 start ups chosen with Tykn were Bot Boys, FlyMedi, Scitodate, Bouw7, Onduro, Vanido, Frosha, Hunters, and **WeParc. **
2.Tykn Participates in the Blockchain Future Trust Summit in Hague 2017
On September 28, the Tykn team was invited amongst other stakeholders to co-create with the challenge owners of the Blockchain For Good Ecosystem. Tey El-Rjula (CEO) and Jimmy J.P. Snoek (Business Development Lead) were representing the Tykn vision on the future of resilient identities.
Quoted from Tykn Blog
There are many other achievements that i would love you to go through with you here.
In conclusion I really believe in this great Tykn project in bringing hope to all the people in world who have lost their identities(passports,birth certificates).
It has always been very difficult to identify and know the accurate number of refugees in the different camps. This will be history with TYkn.
You can read more about the Tykn project by checking out the links below.
Project Website: https://tykn.tech
Products & Services: https://tykn.tech/project-zinc/
Link to a press release: https://blog.tykn.tech/tykn-wins-best-ico-at-the-blockchain-innovation-conference-d8b650340e88
Next event: https://www.decentralized.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Tykn.tech/
Medium: https://blog.tykn.tech
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tykn_tech
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Jarau Moses