“JunctionX Asia is an online hackathon targeted at solving problems the global community faces during this ongoing pandemic. Our goal lies in bringing developers, designers, and other tech-minded individuals together to create exciting projects and solve intriguing challenges.” – JunctionX Asia.
Participants would work in a team within four days (June 18th – 23rd, 2020) to build a project, realizing it from an idea to an actual product to address the challenges of Microsoft, Kaspersky, Nokia and the National Council on Climate and Air Quality.
Right now, we’re all working toward the future in different ways. Work is changing, learning is changing, life is changing. Every person on the planet will need new skills to be successful tomorrow. Today’s students are the innovators and inventors of the future who can use technology to help find solutions to the types of problems we’re facing today.
Problem Statement
In the 21st century, the power of the internet has sprung up many innovations related to web and mobile development. These products created are used to potentially make people’s lives better, help the environment, and change mentality. Build a website or mobile app for social good that can be applied to society that will make the world a safer, kinder, and more inclusive place to live in. In this challenge, the requirement is to show at least 1 usage of the technologies used here in Microsoft Azure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/users/shanam/collections/1mwhogwmz3dyz
We believe that ideas colliding with each other will generate more and smarter ideas. We believe in collaboration to create a great team, and with this, we are able to achieve way more and build a greater impact on the world.
Problem Statement
In the age of information explosion, it is becoming harder and sometimes even impossible to get the accurate and concise information timely. And the COVID-19 crisis makes the situation harder, as rumours and facts are mixed and people are too desperate to make rational selection. Please come up with a solution to help people getting good quality information.
The National Council on Climate and Air Quality(NCCA) is promoting “Innovation 4 Blue Skies (I4BS)” to foster climate technology innovators, social ventures, and startups in order to strengthen the national potential to solve fine dust/climate change problems, and will join young innovators in Asia through JunctionX Asia. Based on the projects of JunctionX Asia, NCCA supports the development of prototypes through Design Thinking Lab and the international impact diffusion link through the World Blue Sky Day Forum in Korea.
Hackathons are all about collaboration! Being at the right place at the right time, and you'll be able to meet like-minded people that share the same passion as you and skillset that completes yours.
Some of the teams in JunctionX Asia were formed of people previously not known to each other. Team HackovidX is a diverse, multi-disciplinary team with members from India, Vietnam, and Singapore.
Team HackovidX consists of five members. Sherman, the team leads, is currently working as a content marketing intern at a Singapore-based tech startup. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, reading, cycling and photography. Deepjyoti is a full-stack developer working for the Government of India, enjoying coding, traveling, and music. Ngoc (Rachel) is an undergraduate in Information Technology in Finland with experience in UX and UI design and an interest in research in human-computer interaction. Lavanya is an undergraduate student at Singapore Management University, with vast skills in Data Science & Analytics. She also enjoys coding, singing, and experimenting with food. Siddhant has many talents and interests – he is a sophomore computer engineer, entrepreneur, data science student, full-stack web developer, and robotics R&D guy.
Over four days, team HackovidX created a mobile app, CarbonScape, that leverages a gamified approach to change consumers’ travel and activity habits to being more environmentally friendly in action. “As a team, we had the vision to be advocates of determined climate action, and one key area is to reduce carbon emissions level in a post-COVID world, as cities and countries begin to open up their economy.”
Carbonscape is a mobile application for predicting the presence of air pollutants. It helps the people be adequately prepared if air pollution is expected to be headed their way. The app uses a gamified and convenient approach to encourage environment-friendly behavior within the community.
• Develop for Social Good (Microsoft)
• Climate Change & Smart City (National Council on Climate and Air Quality (NCCA))
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, some of the world’s most polluted cities have experienced improved air quality due to reduced social and economic activities. However, as countries worldwide lift their lockdown measures and reopen their economy, the air quality is expected to become polluted once again.
Hence, our app aims to resolve this issue in a sustainable and long-term approach through changing users’ travel and activity patterns in a gamified way. This is to control both the carbon emission level as well as the particulate matter in the air.
Users: Our app aims to make the lives of those who have recently recovered from COVID-19 and hence whose lungs are still weak and could be at higher risk of contracting an infection. The app also seeks to improve air quality for people with respiratory diseases like asthma, etc.
Companies: Tie up with public transport authorities and e-commerce sites to run promotions
Carbonscape is a mobile application powered by proprietary AI and generates heat maps for the users. By predicting the presence of air pollutants, Carbonscape helps the people be adequately prepared if air pollution is expected to be headed their way. The app uses a gamified and convenient approach to encourage environmentally-friendly behavior within the community and, in the process, improve the carbon footprint at an individual level.
Our app takes the user’s location and other attributes like gender and age on registration. It then sends the user pollution day alerts on days when the air pollutants are predicted to be headed towards the user’s country of residence. Further, our app structure is motivated by a rewards-based system wherein the coupons and other promos are credited to the user’s account on pollution alert days. The idea behind crediting a user’s account on pollution alert days is that if the user can see the benefits they could redeem, just a touch away – they would be more incentivized to adopt more eco-friendly practices to save them. Disclaimer: The redemption can only occur after the app verifies that the user has reduced their carbon emission levels. The app determines a reduction of at least 10% from the original carbon emission levels.
Potential areas of development include gamification of the app through incorporating features like connecting with Facebook friends and having a points scoreboard to encourage some friendly competitive spirit. Another aspect would be trying to include AR-based games, in which the user gains knowledge on the carbon emissions emitted by a particular appliance by virtually clicking on it.
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