Vietnam wins silver at Huawei's Global Tech4Good Competition
VOV.VN - The local VNO1 team has won the silver award at Huawei's first global Tech4Good competition for its outstanding project “Earlie”.
The Vietnamese winners include Nguyen Quoc Hung from Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology, Dang Le Tuong Vy from Da Nang University of Science and Technology, Nguyen Hoang Hai from Swinburne University of Technology, and Nguyen Viet Phuong from The Vietnam National University- University of Engineering and Technology (VNU-UET).
Their project “Earlie” supports deaf people in communicating through a virtual interpreter application. The application makes use of AI technology that allows speech recognition, before converting it into text and then changing that sign language into speech. It also helps people to communicate with deaf people through a virtual interpreter.
The overall winner of the competition was the Thai team with the "Are u OK?" project which helps patients in Thailand receive faster emergency treatment.
The competition offers the winners the chance to enjoy a private consultation or join in coaching sessions with Huawei executives and managers, as well as being shortlisted to speak at international forums and other events. The winners of the first place prize also get the chance to meet with an investor in order to pitch their ideas.
The Tech4Good Competition is a new project which only started in 2021 under Huawei’s flagship Seeds for the Future digital skill training programme. Tech4Good requests that students identify a social issue and proposes a technical solution for it based on the ICT skills that they have learned throughout the scheme.
Seeds for the Future was originally launched back in 2008 to develop skilled, local ICT talent and bridge communication gaps between countries and cultures. As part of the scheme, young people from around the world study advanced ICT technologies and develop real-world expertise and skills.
The 2021 programme attracted more than 3,500 participants from over 117 countries, thereby bringing the total number of participants over the past 13 years up to 120,000 students representing 139 countries and regions globally.
