Semifinalist projects in Brazil

Social transformation and inclusion initiatives in digital environments

Improvements in health and digital technology (e-Health)

Category: Improvements in health and digital technology (e-Health)

Beaba (be-a-bá) has adopted as its mission the demystification of cancer, providing information in a clear, objective and optimistic way about the disease and the treatment of children, adolescents and their carers.

Improvements in health and digital technology (e-Health)

Categoría: Improvements in health and digital technology (e-Health)

The doctors who volunteer to collaborate with this project devote hours to people with no resources in an organized way. They don’t deal with emergencies and highly complex cases. Their intention is to complement the SUS state health service without aiming to replace it.

Improvements in health and digital technology (e-Health)

Category: Improvements in health and digital technology (e-Health)

The project promotes corrective surgery for strabismus in people from less privileged social classes.

Innovation in insurance

Category: Innovation in insurance

This platform has a major environmental social impact and combines high definition weather forecasting with a network of low-cost climate sensors.

Innovation in insurance

Category: Innovation in insurance

This is a mobile device that enables vehicles to be tracked in an economical way (GPRS) and allows for emergency calls to be made to the authorities or the family through the press of a button with a much quicker than average response time.

Innovation in insurance

Category: Innovation in insurance

A insurance marketing application using a virtual assistant based on IA and Big Data. Its objective is to provide access to insurance cover for those who have never contracted any before.

Mobility and road safety

Category: Mobility and road safety

An application that enables workers at a company to share transport and parking, integrating with both public and private platforms to reduce costs for its users.

Mobility and road safety

Category: Mobility and road safety

This project promotes job creation and income through the production process of bicycles. It runs repair and technology training workshops to encourage young people to be entrepreneurial.

Mobility and road safety

Category: Mobility and road safety

A carsharing platform linked to social media to reduce safety risks, pollution and journey costs and to expand users’ travel options. It uses a virtual currency that be exchanged for incentives and discounts on the ZUMPY network.