A farmer aid mobile app project won the local United Nations-backed Hult Prize On Campus challenge organised by the City University of Macau and will now take part in the competition’s national finals.
“Their project involved a mobile app to help farmers obtain information not the weather, their crops and current prices, to help them choose what kind of crops they should grow and for how much they should sell them,” Zhao Ruojun, a City University Doctor of Business Administration student from Zhuhai who led efforts to organise the event told Macau News Agency.
The local event is part of a worldwide competition that awards a US$1 million (MOP7.9 million) prize to a project or idea presented by students worldwide on how to advance the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals are a collection of 17 interlinked goals designed in 2015 to be a “blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all’ by 2030 in areas such as education, climate and employment.
The competition was founded in by the Hult Prize Foundation, and has deployed more than US$65 million impact-focused programs, events and training and operates on more than 2,000 college and university campuses in 121 countries with a global team of more than 30,000 staff, student volunteers.
The 2021 the Hult Prize has as its theme ‘Food for Good’ and is asking teams around the world to build viable food enterprises that will impact the lives of 10 million people in the next decade while strengthening communities, increasing incomes, feeding the hungry and creating jobs.
Some 11 teams comprising some 40 City University students took part in the challenge held at the union November 19, with STB Team receiving the best judge score.
The competition’s judge panel included six local business and academic personalities, namely: Ruby O (Director of Environmental, Social & Governance Wynn Macau & Wynn Palace), Victoria Man (Director of Events & Projects O Media Inside Asian Gaming); Feather Lee ( Human Resources Director Future Bright Group), Aeson Lei (President Macau Catering Industry Association); Queenie Zhu (Managing Director
New Concept Managing Consulting and Waheng Chang (Founder Golding Technology Limited)
The team will now take part in the challenge’s regional competition, which will bring together teams from universities from all over China and be held either in Shanghai and Beijing on a yet to be determined date.
Regional finalists will be announced on January 2021, with regional semi-final rounds beginning in March and the final winner revealed after a global accelerator bringing together more than 40 teams over six weeks.
The Hult Prize On Campus has been held since 2009, with the University of Macau organizing a local competition for the first time in 2018, with no similar event held in the two years after until now.
“I believe the event had a good influence for City University and all stakeholders and allowed them to know more about the UN’s sustainable goals and the Hult Foundation intent to lead this generation to make the world a better place,”
Resource from: FOB and MacauBusiness.com, https://www.macaubusiness.com/farmer-aid-mobile-app-project-local-hult-prize-un-backed-sustainability-competition/