An application to help women to leave abusive relationships, another to alphabetize children with disabilities or learning difficulties, who operates in the generation of data to find and prevent epidemics. With different themes, these projects have one thing in common:. Use technology to help solve collective problems, a major focus of the Campus Party Recife
The event in innovation and technology held this weekend in capital of Pernambuco opened spaces for activities that discuss how to use the technological knowledge to work in social causes in different areas. There is also a 20 display area startup – companies embryos with innovative ideas in search of a viable business model. – The public part of the event, which also occur free lectures on entrepreneurship
Among the selected projects, some seeking investors to start working and there are those who have left the drawing board, as the application created by Epitrack company that uses information sent by users to help identify possible epidemic outbreaks of diseases such as dengue and zika.
startups area of Campus Party Recife part of the public program of the event, which also has free lectures
“we were a research group within the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and observe that our model to join health with technology public was getting the attention of other people who wanted to hire us. So we thought of formulating Epitrack to offer this in a more scalable way to society, “said the CEO [Chief Executive Officer, its acronym in English) and co-founder of Epitrack, Onício Leal.
through the application, the citizen provides information on the symptoms you are feeling and report details to help locate the source of the problem, as foreign travel or contact with someone who was sick. The application records the user’s location, analyzes the data sent by thousands of people – epidemiologists are part of the team. – And provides public entities for analysis that hired the service, as the city of Recife and the Ministry of Health
According to Leal, the instrument can help managers make decisions, including preventively, since traditionally gathers data collected in surveys that take longer to be carried out. “The speed that technology provides to do this in relation to the traditional media is very large. So you can have the information more timely, providing greater speed resolution of that social problem. ” In the application, users have provided guidance on health and Ready Units addresses (PAU) nearby.
Reception and information
Other initiatives presented the event still rely on financing to start work, as Mete the Spoon, who was born in a feminist group to assist women to leave abusive relationships. The project is designed to encourage victims to report domestic violence and works as a Facebook page that links people who need help to those who are willing to help.
The intention now is to create a national presence application. “We have seen that the greatest need is precisely empower women to leave the relationship. Anticipating all this help chain, show the necessary paths. A woman who is going through it does not know what to do, who to look for, “said one of the project idealizing, Thaísa Queiroz
The feminist application wants to offer four services:. Psychological care, legal assistance, inclusion in labor market and emergency welfare of women to enable them to leave the house. The technology in this case will automate a service that is currently done by the people of the team.
“Today women arrive with requests for help by fanpage and we make the connection to our database. It is a manual labor even more limited. With the application it is intended that the network runs by itself, and to work more quickly and effectively, “said Thaísa. The challenge is to get the resources to take the idea of the paper. For this, the group decided to use crowdfunding via the Internet.
But the Sounds and Gestures project focus on investors achievement to fund the creation of a focused application to the literacy of people with disabilities or learning difficulties. The app is ready and goes through validation phase technology with patients and through a pilot project in a school of Recife. The method used was developed by a multidisciplinary team that already applies techniques for over ten years in person.
“As the strategy is already applied in physical games, the idea is to overcome the barriers of schools and offices and students become more focused to learn. For example, we tested with a patient with autism who was too dispersed in time because there were many people in the room. When we showed the application it looks like the world stopped and he was focused on the application and first already hit all kept repeating several times, “says the CEO of T-access, which develops the idea, Virginia Chalegre.
Edition: Luana Lourenço
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