The Communications Regulatory Authority and the UAE digital government announced the names of the winners within the activities of the "Hackathon Emirates", which was held for the fifth year in a row under the slogan "Data for Happiness and Quality of Life".
The announcement came during the closing ceremony that was held in the university city hall in Sharjah, in the presence of His Excellency Hessa Bint Issa Bouhamid, Minister of Community Development, and Engineer Majid Sultan Al -Memmar, Director General of the Communications Regulatory Authority and the digital government, and members of the teams.
One of the biggest competitive events for innovation in the UAE, the Hakathon, with the support of the Ministry of Community Development represented by the National Program for Happiness and Quality of Life, is one of the largest competitive events that encourage innovation in the UAE.
Where students of university, secondary schools, government employees, businessmen, thinkers and creators motivate the design of the future, by providing innovative solutions to the challenges facing various governmental and public bodies and institutions in the country, using the open data available through the official open data portal (Bayanat).AE), and relying on emerging technologies.
The Hakathon competitions came during this year in three categories. In the school students category, the Meta Edu team won first place for a project aimed at increasing interaction between students and teachers in distance education systems by employing technology to create a virtual reality that is more interactive and communicating to achieve more quality education, in When the Change Makers team won the second place for developing tools and solutions to support and measure mental health for government agencies using a robot and the "luster" platform programmed to discover the psychological state by interpreting body language and reading facial expressions, while the third place was the share of the Metahumans team, which worked to increase the interaction Among the students and teachers in distance education systems, using metaphors to present the education experience virtually for students with determination through virtual field trips.
In the path of university students, the UAEPIXEL team won first place for a project aimed at developing a more intelligent and secure road network using technology, and «UAE Pixel is an artificial intelligence system that enables the police in the Emirates to convert the process of processing traditional data into a more richer and systematic method, while second place wentTo a pause team to provide ideas and proposals to help increase the revenues and endowment donations, using a donation platform that works through the blockchain technology.
Where all transactions are recorded, and include games for games and subscription to encourage community members to good, while the third place was the share of the surgical technology team that works to devise methods and means that help in qualifying employees and raising their capabilities and skills to keep pace with the expected changes in future jobs.
In the path of entrepreneurs, the HMA team won HCMS.AI in the first place, and this team aims to bridge the skills gap by analyzing the skills data using artificial intelligence based on the offer from universities and requesting the labor market for skills within governmental and private institutions and educational institutions to help enable talents in the appropriate skills set.
As for the second place, it was the share of the Unitors team, which presented an educational platform linking school children with teachers from university students in a wide range of fields such as music, dance and sports, and in this way jobs are provided to university students during the study and reasonable cost lessons for school children.
And the third place was won by the Dakhr team, which is working to allow people to invest during spending and immediate payment of investments, and Dakhr is a mobile application that allows users to manage their investment strategies, by allowing them to set dedicated investment rules, allowing them these rules to invest in companies who love spendingTheir money in it.
In her speech, which she delivered at the beginning of the ceremony, His Excellency Hessa Bint Issa Bouhamid, Minister of Community Development, affirmed the importance of cooperation and integration between the Ministry of Community Development through the National Program for Happiness and Quality of Life, the Communications Regulatory Authority and the digital government within the framework of the happiness data and the quality of life for everyone and added its Excellency by saying:
We all realize the great role for the UAE in encouraging and enhancing the culture of creativity and innovation between all groups and spectrums of Emirati society, as well as the effective and positive role in supporting the innovation system at the state level, and this role that grows year after year at all levels starting from governmental and federal agencies and through universities and academic institutionsAnd the private sector institutions and the end of individuals «.
In turn, Eng. Majid Sultan Al -Mesmar, Director General of the Communications Regulatory Authority and the digital government, said: “Our goal was one day from the Hakathon to launch a race and then conclude with words, prizes and festive appearances.
These matters, of course, are not comparable to the value of the fruitful idea that participates in the Hakathon, then they turn it into a project that serves people and meets their needs in an aspect of life. I tell them that this is the beginning.Make the experience of the hackthon an incentive to complete the road, your real prize is the experience.Make it a fuel for your tireless endeavor to achieve what you dreamed of.
And do not be among those who look at the world through the dual success and failure.Success and failure are not always opposite, because failure may be the inevitable way to reach success.You have many examples of global success stories that have been achieved through a path full of troubled experiences..
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During this Hakathon, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi excelled in terms of the number of participants in the Hakathon by 27%, followed by the Emirate of Dubai by 23%, then the Emirate of Sharjah by 15.50%, then Ajman, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain. The total number of applicants reached 2162 participants between entrepreneurs, experts, university students and school students from all over the country.
The percentage of females reached 57% compared to males, which reached 43%, knowing that the path of university students has won the first position in terms of the number of participants followed by the path of startups and school students..
In a related context, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and the digital government explained that innovative solutions based on blockchain techniques ranked first in the list of ideas that are not followed by artificial intelligence technologies, followed by huge data applications and data analysis, and equal in terms of numbers of ideas for the use of Internet of Things technologies, metaphors, and realityVirtual and enhanced.
In its fifth edition, Hackathon included 41 challenges, then presented by federal and local bodies under a group of major axes in the development system, the most important of which is reaching a digital government characterized by pre -emptive flexibility, financial services supported by advanced technologies, the axis of investment and a strong digital economy, the development of sustainable smart cities, skills and skillsAnd knowledgeable acquaintances, the axis of a happy and coherent society, and communication in the digital age.
The authority pointed out that the 12 -day training and direction period was characterized by interaction around the clock on the Hakathon platform, and the training activities varied between technical workshops.
Guidance and guidance sessions, and training sessions in the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship.As the number of sessions and workshops reached more than 42 training workshops presented by 22 experts from major technology companies such as Google, Ericsson, Her Technologies, Du, and SAS along with international institutions as an association of electricity and electronics engineers.
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The number of creative ideas that participated in the arbitration stage reached 190 ideas that were evaluated for 4 days by 23 arbitrators.The largest share of the universities' path was 116 ideas, followed by the course of startups and entrepreneurs with 39 ideas, and 35 ideas in the path of schools to choose the best 30 ideas from all ideas presented in the three paths.
It is noteworthy that “Hackathon Emirates” aims to unveil innovative and advanced solutions that are highly flexible to adapt to the successive variables of the digital revolution and modern technology tools, and to enhance the role of the business sector in achieving national development goals.
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