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Application developed by Unicauca students, awarded by the American Association for the Precision of Medicine
The aerospace group AESS-IEEE Unicauca won the award for Best Collaborative Telemedicine Solution for the development of a solution called Connect-A-Thon, which will allow users to interactively connect for the creation of medical, digital and creative solutions in the face of COVID- 19.
The IEEE AESS Unicauca team won the award for Best Collaborative Telemedicine Solution at the "ACT2HACK COVID: Global Hackathon v2" event, organized by the American Association for Precision Medicine AAPM for the development of a solution called CONNECTATHON
The group is made up of Santiago Terán, Jhon Fredy Sacanamboy, Felipe Tosse, Camilo Segura and Santiago Chávez, students of Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications and Systems Engineering; Sara Abella and Diego Chávez, Physical Engineering students; and Paula Grijalba, student of Geography of Regional and Environmental Development. The international team is led by entrepreneurial expert Amy Li, and included the participation of Doreen Hing, Loai Skouti, Dean Chen and Maria Abramova.
The students of the University of Cauca contributed from their different disciplines in the design and implementation of the platform with WebRTC technologies for communication in real time and video calls, as well as in the creation of the business model, in the ideation and architecture of the solution, as well as helping with the investor cover and question and answer session with the judges.
The CONNECTATHON solution will allow to interactively connect users to create medical, digital and creative solutions to the COVID-19 situation. CONNECTATHON allows the generation of an active community that can participate and meet other projects and its main value is the continuation of the solutions proposed in the creation events.
Camilo Segura and Amy Li will continue to develop remote communication solutions on the Dance4Healing platform, a startup of the North American expert that associates the benefits of dancing and activity at home with good physical and mental health, as well as the generation of a community of people passionate about dance. The solution aims to support people with medical problems or advanced ages to overcome the deterioration due to sedentary lifestyle and the limitations produced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The second version of the # ACT2HACK COVID-19 global hackathon was organized by the American Association for Precision Medicine AAPM from July 31 to August 3, with the aim of addressing the COVID-19 outbreak through the use of solutions digital and a third version is expected to be developed in September. Software developers, data scientists, UX / UI designers, healthcare professionals and experts, and entrepreneurs attended the event to propose viable solutions to the current global pandemic crisis.
Two projects were awarded over the weekend, each receiving a special award. The award for the "Greatest global impact", received by a team that proposed to monitor scientific and citizen advances on the pandemic. And the award "Best Collaborative Telemedicine Solution" was received by a team that suggested the continuation of creative projects in hackathons and the possibility of open collaboration between competitive teams in these events.
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