Student teams create software to ease humanitarian crises
A student team from Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) has won the first CMU-Q LifeLines Hackathon with an idea to use mobile phone technology to assist visually impaired people in crisis situations. The hackathon was part of a student-led initiative at CMU-Q to channel knowledge and innovation into solutions for people caught in humanitarian crises.
The event brought together 115 students from eight universities and 12 high schools in Qatar. Participants were given 24 hours to create innovations in the areas of crisis management, health and education, and