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       UNILAG Team Wins UN Crime Hackathon
   DIR 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.
       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.
       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.
       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.
       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.
       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.
       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.
       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.
       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.”
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