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       UNILAG Team Wins UN Crime Hackathon
       By: Eda Date: March 29, 2019, 3:26 pm
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       A team of three students from the University of Lagos (UNILAG)
       has won the Hackathon4Justice competition organised by the
       United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in partnership
       with Facebook and AfricaTeenGeeks.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]The students were mentored by were Iyinoluwa
       Samuel Aboyeji, Co-founder of Nigerian startup Andela and
       founder of Flutterwave and a number of Software Engineers from
       Facebook.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]The students were challenged to employ
       technology to solve problems relating to achieving the rule of
       law in the areas of corruption, integrity and ethics; crime
       prevention and criminal justice; organized crime; human
       trafficking and terrorism and violent extremism after a 29-hour
       coding marathon.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]The team of three, made up of David Popoola,
       Eyitayo Ogunbiyi and Chukwudumebi Onwuli beat 47 other students
       from nine institutions shortlisted for the final at the Four
       Points by Sheraton Hotel in Lagos last weekend.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]They winning team developed a software, ‘Let’s
       Fight Trafficking’ (TFL), to unmask traffickers.  It features an
       e-learning planning platform on human trafficking; a facial
       recognition system that matches feed from webcams and other
       images to determine existing case with similar images in the
       database; a portal for victim’s close friends to file reports
       about trafficking in their area and a heat map, generated from
       report data to let users know where trafficking is most
       prevalent and take preventive measures.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]The winners have secured tickets to the Global
       Hackathon for Justice event to hold at the Google Headquarters
       in Silicon Valley in August, where they will participate as
       mentors.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]A team of four students from the Ladoke Akintola
       University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso came second for
       designing a mobile application they call ‘Athena’ that allows
       people to report crime, emergencies and detects location of
       users and composes a report.  It also helps users learn about
       their rights and provides anonymity for whistle blowers.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]Students from Caleb University, Covenant
       University, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Obafemi
       Awolowo University, University of Benin, Babcock University, and
       the Yaba College of Technology also participated in the
       final.[/font]
       [font=Open Sans]Commenting on their win, David said “So many
       thanks to the organisers, mentors and sponsors at the
       Hackathon4Justice for their time, attention and the opportunity
       to be a part of the event.  The hackathon gave us the
       opportunity to test our skills and learn even more.  This is not
       the end.  We will keep the same energy and continue providing
       solutions to the problems of our world.” [/font]
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