Loading...The final three weeks were almost exclusively devoted to Team Projects: work leading to the final presentations at the end of GSP-09.
SU students divided into four groups, each aiming to leverage exponentially advancing technologies in a way that improves the lives of 1 billion people within 10 years.
OneGlobalVoice
A development platform that gives access to cloud-computing resources through SMS on a basic (2G) cellphone. It demonstrates how innovations commonly carried out on computationally-and-bandwidth heavy internet subscriptions, or on fast and relatively expensive 3G networks (available to less than a quarter of mobile subscribers worldwide) can also take place on the 2G networks available to over half the world’s population.
During core lectures and special guest lectures GSP09 students learned about 3D printing and the efficiencies possible when prototyping or testing can be done on a computer. The ACASA team project examined how these exponentially growing technologies could be applied to the problem of sub-standard housing, concluding that advances in Rapid Additive Manufacturing (RAM) technologies could be used to construct customizable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable homes.
The Gettaround team focused on how peer-to-peer car sharing today could contribute to a more intelligent transportation grid in the future, reducing health and environmental damages that exist today.
Civiguard Technologies (formerly XIDAR Systems), is developing mobile phone applications and portable medical technologies to assist civilians and officials alike in crisis, disaster and pandemic situations. The CiviCast application allows any civilian with a smart phone to receive integrated, reliable information from local authorities to find safety, aid and resources. CiviCommand integrates data from qualified professionals into a central touch-screen interface at incident command to evolve a comprehensive picture of the ground situation in times of crisis.
