six-member team from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) obtained the UNESCO Youth Hackathon award throughout the Global Media Information Literacy (MIL) Week in Cartagena, Colombia, final week, for his or her interactive display screen and app to assist fight hoax information.
Their idea, referred to as Mobile Point, provides the general public video games with an app that includes pre-bunk quizzes, debate level, trusted information and chief boards to maintain customers lively. It goals to create a dynamic ecosystem that allows Gen-Z and Millennials to suppose critically, truth test simply and resist misinformation.
“Recent events in Indonesia show that many people are vulnerable to hoaxes,” team member Jonathan Emmanuel Saragih stated after the award ceremony, explaining the pondering behind the idea.
MIL Point is a prototype that the team hopes to scale up and make it accessible to individuals in huge cities in Indonesia and on display screen.
“We hope to find partners to help fund and develop the project,” stated Vinnidhiaty Gradelyn Jees, one other team member.
Three different recipients of the award got here from Vietnam, Argentina and Cameroon. They had been chosen from practically 1,300 entries from 126 nations.
This is the second time working for Indonesia to win the award. In 2024, a team from the University of Indonesia gained with their MIL Board interactive recreation, designed to show media and data literacy to underprivileged younger kids.
This 12 months’s Global MIL Festival took the theme “Minds OverAI” to take a look at the impression of synthetic interactive within the training world. (emb)