The Google Cloud presents AI for Impact APAC Hackathon powered by Hack2skill celebrating innovation and creativity under the theme AI for Social Good, uniting participants from over 26 APAC countries to tackle some of the region’s most pressing challenges. With 22,000+ registrations, 1227 project submissions & 1.6 million+ reach, the grand finale on December 23, 2024, unveiled the winners who stood out for their impactful and transformative solutions.
Winning Team: Padayon Ko
Team Padayon Ko from Indonesia worked on Tech for better Education and created an AI-driven platform to simplify scholarship discovery and application for Filipino students. Padayon Ko, translating to “Let’s move forward” in Cebuano, is an AI-powered scholarship platform tailored to the unique needs of Filipino high school students. This platform simplifies the scholarship application process, making it accessible, intuitive, and empowering.
To read more about their solution, click here.
First runner up: Savour
Savour, a team from Australia, developed an AI-powered platform dedicated to combating food waste at both individual and institutional levels. The app uses AI to help users track their food consumption and optimize their inventory. Its features include smart suggestions for recipes based on available ingredients and alerts to consume items before expiration.
The platform’s mission aims to instill a culture of sustainability. It equips users with the tools to make informed choices while also fostering mindfulness about food consumption. The team envisions a future where every meal contributes to a greener planet.
To know more about their solution, click here.
Second Runner up: BaldMann
For many, the aftermath of an accident means adapting to new physical limitations while wrestling with the emotional toll of feeling burdensome to their loved ones. These feelings of dependency can spiral into mental health challenges, often leaving individuals isolated and disheartened. Team BaldMann from India worked on Empowering People with Disabilities.
Bald Buddy, a dual-mode EEG band, is designed not just to support physical rehabilitation as well as address the mental health struggles that often accompany these journeys. Thoughts after an unfortunate incident can weigh heavily on a person’s mind, often leading to anxiety or depression. Bald Buddy helps break this cycle by empowering users to reclaim their independence while providing tools to monitor and improve mental well-being.
Click here to know more about their solution.
Best Usage of Google GenAI Tools: Ayu App
Ayu App aims to solve the issue of 3 out of 4 medical records being paper-based or unorganised digital files, and patients struggle to maintain lifelong medical histories.
Critical health information is often lost when switching between healthcare providers.
To tackle these issues, they started building a privacy focused app to maintain and access your health history and records easily and efficiently, to head towards an easier way to manage health records and an efficient way to share them with doctors.
To know more about their solution, click here.
Best User Experience: Noodles
Mental health challenges affect an estimated 1 in 3 people in Malaysia. Team Noodles understood that this alarming statistic underscores the urgent need for effective mental health care. Therapists spend an average of 10–40 hours each month on administrative tasks like documentation and case notes.
To address this challenge, Team Noodles worked on Empowering Healthcare Workers and created Case Crafter to ease the administrative burden on therapists and give them back valuable time. By leveraging AI, the platform automates essential but time-consuming tasks like case note generation and progress tracking, helping reduce documentation time by an estimated 50%.
We would like to wish the winning teams congratulations once again. Their contributions towards the society as a whole will definitely lead to positive changes. With this hackathon coming to an end, let’s look forward to more positive changes that technology can bring and let’s keep building for a better tomorrow!
To know more about the hackathon,you can visit: https://vision.hack2skill.com/event/aiforimpact_reg?utm_source=hack2skill&utm_medium=homepage
