The girls from Kazakhstan with the safety app, QamCare, have emerged the winner in the Senior Division of the 2017 Technovation Challenge.
More than 11,000 girls from 103 countries formed teams to address issues in those categories: peace, poverty, environment, equality, education, and health. This week, the finalists traveled to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View to pitch their ideas to a panel of tech leaders and other experts. Last night, in front of 900+ supporters, educators, mentors and past participants, the four girls behind a safety app called QamCare were crowned the winner of the Senior Division.
QamCare helps users keep track of their loved ones. It is a free analog of GPS-Watches but does not invade user’s personal space as only trusted contacts are able to see the user’s last location in case of emergency. QamCar originates from Kazakh word “Qamqor” which means care and support. The team includes Aruzhan Koshkarova, Azhar Sultansikh, Dianna Zhanakbayeva and Diyara Beisenbekova.
2017 Technovation Challenge Senior Division Finalists
The other finalist teams include:
- One Step Ahead (Education) from Armenia;
- PregCare (Health) from India
- Go Waco (Environment) from Kazakhstan;
- iCut (Equality) from Kenya
- Wishcraft (Poverty) from India
The Technovation Challenge, run by nonprofit Iridescent, in partnership with Google’s Made with Code and UN Women was created to offer young women from around the world the chance to code an app that solves a real-world challenge.
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Congratulations QamCare girls on their winning. This is a very big congratulations to you.
That’s some really nice app there. QamCare would surely be of great benefit to a lot of people, no doubt. And, congratulations to the girls.