Cebu’s young innovators off to national meet
Even young minds can come up with brilliant ideas, and the Program the Future: The Accenture Technology Campus Challenge is proof of that. Organized by Accenture Philippines, the competition does not only challenge young innovators to solve problems, but also prepares them for improving communities in the future.
Students from different colleges and universities here in Cebu joined the competition to prove themselves as innovators of the future.
One of the finalists from Cebu, Team A1 of the Cebu Institute of Technology–University, co-created Aeon, a mobile and web application that will improve the efficiency of the Cebu City Government’s Long Life Program (LLP).
The program aims to deliver and supply maintenance medicines to over 50,000 qualifying beneficiaries. With this application, it will digitize records and enable efficient monitoring and delivery validation through artificial intelligence like GPS and face recognition. It also allows prediction and risk evaluation through the patients’ daily activities and lifestyle.
The 20-year-old member of Team A1, Andrew Oplas, said that they really want to make sure that the beneficiaries will be able to take their medicines every day and have sufficient supply. He said that whether they win or lose, LLP is looking forward to incorporating AEON into the LLP to increase the efficiency of the program’s process.
Top Five
Other entries that made it to the top five finalists are Tactus of USJ-R, which is a glove-camera device that converts text into Braille feedback onto the fingertip. It is an affordable alternative to books using the Braille system for the blind; JUANation of USJ-R is a mobile application that will analyze relevant data from reliable and verified news sources about calamity events to systematically generate specific needs based on the calamity location and population.
Cancervive of UP Cebu, a social media app especially designed for cancer patients with features like user profile, community, diary, and reminders. Lastly, Tingog of CIT-U made an application that bridges the gap between NGOs who are in need of funds, children who are learning how to read, and people who are willing to help through integrating Artificial Intelligence, data veracity and frictionless business to the gamified application.
Five teams from Cebu and five teams from Manila will compete in the finals at the capital this Wednesday.