Vietnam wins first prize at Asia Pacific Seeds for Future Tech4Good Competition
The Vietnamese team has won a first prize at the Asia Pacific Seeds for the Future Tech4Good Competition organised by Huawei Group in Shenzen, China, with the SkyNet project which supports the search for flood victims. With this result, it will advance to the Tech4Good Global Competition next year.
The Vietnamese and Cambodian teams both win first prize at the Future Tech4Good Competition. (Photo: Hanoimoi.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnamese team has won a first prize at the Asia Pacific See🦄𝕴ds for the Future Tech4Good Competition organised by Huawei Group in Shenzen, China, with the SkyNet project which supports the search for flood victims. With this result, it will advance to the Tech4Good Global Competition next year.
The Vietnamese team comprises six students from four leading universities in Vietnam, including Mai Thi Phuong, Nguyen Thi Thu Trang and Dinh Hoang Anh from the Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology; Pham Quynh Trang from VinUniversity; Cao Sy Duong from the Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and Tran Dang Nam from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Transport.
At the competition, the Vietnamese squad competed with 24 teams from 24 other countries in the region. After two consecutive rounds, the Vietnamese team won the first prize with the SkyNet project, which was devised based on the context of super typhoon Yagi that just caused economic damage of 2 billion USD to Vietnam. The team from Cambodia also won a first prize.
The project was developed based on the application of drones, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and AI technology to support search and rescue of victims in flooded areas in a faster and smarter manner. The cost of the project was also optimised to bring economic benefits and diverse application scenarios when it is commercialised to the market.
Tech4Good is a startup project competition organised by Huawei with the aim of raising students' awareness of local sustainable development challenges, along with capturing the latest digital trends, thereby developing technically and commercially feasible solutions to solve social problems./.
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