By PFLAG Canada
Every day in the US, more than 4,000 students drop out of school and thousands of kids miss school because they lack clean clothes. The Care Counts project involved installing washing machines in schools in order to reduce the rate of absenteeism of at-risk student in the classroom. For this, each student had an identifier linked to his name to correlate with their current presence.
By Whirlpool Corporation
Every day in the US, more than 4,000 students drop out of school and thousands of kids miss school because they lack clean clothes. The Care Counts project involved installing washing machines in schools in order to reduce the rate of absenteeism of at-risk student in the classroom. For this, each student had an identifier linked to his name to correlate with their current presence.
By BETC Sao Paulo
In order to raise awareness about men frequently interrupting women during conversations, BETC Sao Paulo developed an app that analyses how many time female voices are being interrupted by male voices.
By Dunkin' Donuts
National Donut Day was originally established in 1938 by the Salvation Army to honor women who served donuts to soldiers during World War I. Dunkin’ Donuts, the #1 retailer of donuts in America, has been serving guests signature donuts for 67 years. For the National Donut Day of 2017, the brand partnered with technology firms to engage its core audience via social media.
By Vidax Center
Since 2001 more than 3 million children in the world have had one of their parents deployed and thousands of them lost a parent because of war. These children experience high rates of mental health problems. In order to help them during the crises, Vidax center assembled a team of health professionals and digital developers to create Ai Buddy, a set of characters powered by AI that support kids in the absence of parents.
By Italia Longeva
There are 9.9 million new cases of Alzheimer’s each year. The amnesia confuses and scares the Alzheimer’s sufferers pushing them to become more and more self-contained. Italia Longeva wanted to improve the quality of life of Alzheimer’s in the early stages of the disease, by creating a chatbot messenger which collects the entire life of Alzheimer’s sufferers and gives them back vital information 24H a day.
By Keemotion
Keemotion’s technology enrichs basketball fans’ experience by enabling them to watch more basketball games from home and by providing them with statistical data about the game.
By Deutsche Telekom
Dementia is a growing health threat. To help scientists working towards finding a cure, Deatsche Telekom created this multi-platform game designed specifically to help advance the understanding of spatial navigation and therefore understand one of the first symptoms of dementia.
By Wunderman Buenos Aires
The foundation Huésped has decided to set up an awareness campaign on the importance of HIV prevention tests in Argentina. They modified a machine normally used for patients to check-in. So instead of providing the usual appointment number, the machine handled an HIV statistic relevant to each person.