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Quantum Temple Wins the World Tourism Organization Global Startup Competition
The World Tourism Organization (UNTWO), a UN special agency, has announced the winners of their "Awake Tourism Challenge". The competition is meant to celebrate start-ups that are reshaping the tourism sector in every global region and has been on-going since April of 2022.
Last Tuesday the announced that winner for the USA region would be the project known as Quantum Temple, a Web3 platform preserving culture heritage that partially runs on Algorand.
BIG NEWS! 🎉 We are thrilled to announce that @quantum_temple just won the @UNWTO Global Startup Competition as the most innovative startup in the category of local community involvement in the tourism sector! 💥#Blockchain #Refi #culturalheritage #tourism https://t.co/qzA4CC4e18
— Q U A N T U M T E M P L E (@quantum_temple) February 1, 2023
What is Quantum Temple?
Quantum Temple encodes knowledge and traditions on the Ethereum and Algorand blockchains, as such their able to keep accessible, immutable and decentralized records of cultural heritage.
In order to achieve proper historical records, Quantum Temple collaborates with curatorial anthropologists and filmmakers on the ground to enable cultural keepers to record their knowledge and traditions in stunning cinematic reportage and 3 capturing on-chain.
They have partnered up with ancestral communities and local government institutions, as well as modern society structures, in order to co-create NFT collections to represent cultural heritage.
