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THE Port Hackathon 2016 | Challenges
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Pier 3 - Emergency Housing Networks
For decades, sheltering for millions of refugees, displaced and disaster affected population has been solved by tents or improvised shelters. They have seen only marginal improvements in this time. Several initiatives seek to improve safety in these vulnerable situations. Using mesh structures for energy and information distribution can improve the services available in humanitarian shelters, offering new levels of safety, education and productivity.
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Pier 21 - Human Language Analyser
Humanitarian and human rights defenders are often confronted with an overwhelming quantity of documents. While the texts are human readable, the extraction of the unstructured information is very time consuming. Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods allow the automated analysis of text for relevant information and can guide the human decision makers to better and more efficient analyses.
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Pier 37 - Efficient Forensic Photos
After natural disasters with thousands of victims, officials are often left with no other choice than burying or burning dead bodies without identifying the person. This causes additional pain to the relatives, but also creates a difficult legal and financial situation. Improving the visual identification toolset of forensic disaster teams would make their work more efficient and will leave less families in uncertainty.
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Pier 58 - Sonification and Gamification of Physiotherapy
Movement can be a key to recovery from injuries, for pathologies and disabilities as well as supporting healthy ageing. Precise execution is fundamental to the expected benefits; easy under the watchful eye of a therapist, but difficult when alone at home. Real-time audio feedback and adding computer gaming elements can provide a quantitative reference and motivation for the correct execution of physiotherapy exercises.
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Pier 71 - Counterfeit Drug Reduction
Trust in drugs and especially in vaccinations can be lost by counterfeits or by not optimally managed distribution chains. Directly and indirectly this creates health risks or can facilitate outbreaks. In combination and fully integrated with other methods, blockchain databases offer an additional tool to strengthen the trust and monitoring quality in vaccination and drug distribution chains.
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Pier 85 - Field-ready Hospital Waste
It’s not only supplying hospitals that becomes challenging in crisis situations, but also the disposal of the resulting medical waste. A lack of proper implementation often becomes an additional health risk. Organisations operating hospitals are looking for safe, low energy, logistically simple and efficient ways to manage and dispose of waste in this difficult environment.
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Pier 96 - Clean and Mobile Elimination of Explosives
Explosives are a risk to public health, not only due to their explosive nature, but also due to long term toxic environmental contamination. Open burning and detonation of explosives doesn’t eliminate all toxic remnants. New technological developments and optimized disposal procedures bring affordable, mobile and ecological elimination methods into reach.
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Pier X4 - Real-time Monitoring of Explosions
The use of explosives, especially in populated areas, is the defining phenomenon of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is subject of daily news reports around the globe. Still today, such events are mainly reported from either eyewitness accounts or from official statements. With its multi-technology detector systems, the e3e Monitor would permit the real-time monitoring of explosions and other extreme energy events on an entirely objective basis.
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