One Buzz’s anti-malaria project wins Imagine Cup
The team has a chance to represent New Zealand at the worldwide finals in New York in July.
Wednesday, April 13 2011 || News || BY Computerworld staff
The application, developed by a group of students, is one of two from the university that aim to control the disease.
Team OneBuzz's Vinny Lohan says, "Our solution is to use a collaboration platform involving current information, current partners and current actions in a bid to help eradicate malaria from the surface of this planet. By having a system which updates the concerned parties within days rather than months it can be used to greater effect to help dispatch medical aid to the concerned regions. We can now react faster to a potential outbreak and stop it from spreading by concentrating aid efforts."
The Imagine Cup is held annually. Students from around the world develop technologies using Microsoft software to help solve global problems.
Team OneBuzz will now compete in an online qualifying round with the winning teams around the world for a chance to represent New Zealand at the world wide finals in New York in July .
Second place in the New Zealand contest went to Team MCG, also from Auckland University, with The Sentinel project, another anti-malaria application that uses a laser beam system for killing mosquitoes.
Third place went to Team SkyEye, also from Auckland University, for its project designed to prevent car accidents and improve road safety globally.
Fourth place went to Team Kai from Lincoln University, whose Give n Get online platform links supermarkets with foodbanks that can distribute waste food to people in need.
Winners Team OneBuzz is made up of several of the same group of students that won last year’s local Imagine Cup, for an application designed to aid the global One Laptop Per Child project.
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