Interview with Tobias Feitkenhauer, team member of SHack Vienna 2019 Winner
What was your personal motivation to participate? For me, the SHack in Vienna was the ideal playground to develop one of the prototypes for our startup. As my cofounder and I aren't developers, the Hackathon provided access to great people who could support in the...
Interview with EYA Winner Given Edward from “MTabe”
Given's app MTabe qualified as the best digital solution in the EYA 2018 Contest's special category "mYouth". Using artificial intelligence and SMS technology to deliver learning content to students in Tanzania, they are helping young people to transform their lives...
Partner News: Global VR Hackathon
After 10 months, 2018 Global VR Hackathon has gone through six cities at home and abroad, and end perfectly in this December. 7 winning teams, 26 elite developers from all the six stations gathered in Shanghai to compete for the 48-hour VR/AR development...
Interview with EYA Winner Victoria Mandefield from “Soliguide”
Soliguide is a multimodal platform providing homeless people and refugees with helpful information. Here's a few words from Victoria Mandefield, the woman behind it all: What inspired you as creator? For quite a few years, I volunteered to help homeless people and...
Interview with Martin Irungu from “EmpServe Kenya”
It is often said, that Nairobi is the Silicon Valley of Africa. You are the Executive Director of an NGO that aims to empower Kenyans to utilize digital technologies. How would you describe the Kenyan ecosystem and your digital environment? It is true! Kenya adopts...
Interview with Dalibor Matijevic from “Food+x”
Annually, more than 88 million tons of food are wasted I Europe - says the official record of the Euro food bank (FEBA) and yet more than 20.000 people die of starvation on a daily basis. The most common reason for food waste is products remaining in storage for too...
Interview with Kenneth Au from “UMix Music App”
UMix Music App is a portable music production app to create digital music by simply using one’s voice. Today we had the opportunity to talk with Kenneth Au, one of the creators of program. Who has given the idea for this project, how this idea appeared? The app is...
Interview with #EYA18 Winners from “Studentist”
Ana Maria, Mario and Stefan won the Euroean Youth Award Festival with their project Studentist: an app helping dental students to practise on real patients. How did you come up with the idea? Ana-Maria: Well, I am from Romania, a student of dental medicine. There we...
Interview with #EYA18 Winner Fidan Uka from “Blood Donor”
Blood Donor is a combined system of mobile and web applications developed for the National Centre for Blood Transfusion in Kosovo to spread the word when blood is urgently needed. This platform was designed and developed by Fidan Uka, a 23 years old student from...
Interview with #EYA18 Winner Riccardo Sonnino from “Ethicjobs”
Ethicjobs, a company from Italy’s region of Emilia-Romagnia, is a great example of how to make an impact on a long-established sector – the business management sector and achieve the goal of more employee-friendly and more ethical companies. We sat down and talked...