Technology for good
We help you put technology to work where it makes a difference: protecting nature, supporting people and building what doesn't exist yet.
How can we help you?
Conservation
Do you protect a park, reserve or forest? Together with your rangers we build systems that detect poachers, keep wildlife out of villages and watch over the forest.
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Social impact
Working on a challenge in your city, care home or community? We build VR experiences and digital tools with you that reach the people who need them.
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Innovation
Have an idea that doesn't exist yet? We help you turn it into a working prototype, such as medical hardware, an autonomous drone or VR training on the laws of war.
Explore innovationTechnology that protects wildlife
Most of our conservation work happens in protected areas across the globe. Rangers there patrol thousands of square kilometres without cell coverage, poachers move silently at night, and an elephant or a brown bear stepping into a village can change lives in seconds.
We build the hardware and software that ranger teams, NGOs and research institutions rely on in exactly those conditions. Solar-powered, satellite-connected, ruggedized for heat, dust, rain and curious wildlife. Every season it gets refined by the people who actually use it in the field.
The result is a small set of three platforms, plus the deployments that prove them.
That work falls into a handful of themes;
- Anti-poaching: detecting poachers before they reach the wildlife
- Human-wildlife conflict: keeping elephants and bears away from villages and fields without harming them
- Wildlife monitoring: delivering the data that management decisions rest on
- Deforestation: putting real-time eyes on the roads into protected forest
Our products
Three field-proven platforms we can deploy with you, wherever you work.
Product
ScannerEdge
Detects the phones and radios intruders carry, so you can act before harm is done.
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Product
Instant Detect
AI camera traps that recognise animals and people on the spot, and alert you via satellite within minutes, anywhere on Earth.
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Product
Smart Deterrent
Keeps elephants, bears and other wildlife away from villages and crops, with an automated, non-lethal deterrent system.
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From RF-based anti-poaching detection in Zambia to AI camera traps in the Gabon rainforest.
Designing the future
Some of our work starts with a question nobody has answered yet. "Can an autonomous drone help rangers spot illegal logging from the air?" "Can a 3D-printed laryngoscope be safe enough for a rural hospital that can't afford the commercial one?"
Innovation, for us, means prototyping what doesn't exist yet and then proving it in the field. We help you imagine, design and build the first version of something new, then learn fast enough to decide whether to scale it.
It's also where Hack the Planet started. SkyHawq, our very first project in 2016, was an autonomous fixed-wing drone built for Greenpeace. Many of the lessons we learned in the Indonesian rainforest still shape every product we ship today.
An ANBI-registered foundation in The Netherlands
Hack the Planet started in 2016 and became an official non-profit foundation in 2025. We’re a team of seasoned engineers, funded by donations, grants and partnerships.
Because we are an ANBI, your donation is tax-deductible in the Netherlands.
ANBI status
- Legal name
- Stichting Hack the Planet
- Foundation since
- 2025
- City
- Rotterdam, NL
- KvK
- 98279238
- RSIN
- 868427202
- Policy plan (Dutch)
- Download PDF
- info@hack-the-planet.io
Where we work
Field deployments, hackathons and humanitarian projects worldwide. Click a dot to see what's there.
The partners who make this work
From the foundations and donors who fund us to the rangers, NGOs and researchers we deploy alongside: we don't do any of this on our own.
Help us build technology that matters
Your donation directly funds the hardware, deployment and maintenance of our work in the field. Every contribution counts.
Technology serving people
"Tech for good" doesn't always live in a national park. Sometimes it's a teenager carrying a knife on the way to school, a senior who hasn't been outside in months, or a neighbourhood where people who live next door have never spoken.
Our social-impact work takes the same engineering rigour we apply in the field and points it at problems closer to home. We collaborate with municipalities, NGOs and humanitarian organisations on digital experiences that strengthen communities and reach the people who need them most.
From VR experiences in care homes to GPT-powered storytelling that de-escalates youth violence, the projects below show what's possible when narrative, design and technology come together.
Help Maya
A WhatsApp-based interactive experience addressing knife violence among adolescents, co-created with local teens and police.
WTFFF!?
An online interactive about online sexual abuse, built with survivors, for Gen Z. No games, no gimmicks, just the truth.
Know Your Neighbor
An immersive installation that lets visitors step behind real front doors and experience the lives of people in their own community.