{"id":32952,"date":"2018-08-28T11:57:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T03:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2018-08-28T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:00:17","slug":"accenture-recognizes-top-innovative-ideas-of-filipino-students-that-use-tech4good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2018\/08\/28\/accenture-recognizes-top-innovative-ideas-of-filipino-students-that-use-tech4good\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture recognizes top innovative ideas of Filipino students that use \u2018Tech4Good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture, through its 5<sup>th<\/sup> annual Program The Future: The Accenture Technology Campus Challenge, recently recognized the top innovative ideas of Filipino college students that use new and emerging technologies to address critical problems and help improve how we work and live.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the theme \u2018Tech4Good\u2019, the students were challenged to apply innovative technologies and digital solutions like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Cloud, Extended Reality and Blockchain. The technology competition is part of Accenture\u2019s commitment to inculcate an innovative mindset in today\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32955\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-C_Team-Masigasig_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32955\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-C_Team-Masigasig_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-C_Team-Masigasig_1.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-C_Team-Masigasig_1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Team Masigasig\u2019s leader Lheo Mark Endrina demonstrates how their app, FloodTech, aims to monitor the drainage system in urban areas. Representing Sumulong College of Arts &amp; Sciences, Endrina and his teammates won the Tech\u2019s Choice Award in the 2018 edition of Program The Future: The Accenture Technology Campus Challenge.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_32954\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-B_Aid-2.0_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32954\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32954\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-B_Aid-2.0_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-B_Aid-2.0_2.jpg 650w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Accenture-Photo-B_Aid-2.0_2-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Team Aid 2.0 from the University of San Carlos \u2013 Cebu answers questions about Tactus, a portable, wearable and affordable glove-camera device that they developed to help blind people. Tactus was named as the Tech Vision awardee during the recently concluded Program The Future competition organized by Accenture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accenture, through its 5th annual Program The Future: The Accenture Technology Campus Challenge, recently recognized the top innovative ideas of Filipino college students that use new and emerging technologies to address critical problems and help improve how we work and live.\u00a0 With the theme \u2018Tech4Good\u2019, the students were challenged to apply innovative technologies and digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":32953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2838,853,5602,107,6283,6151,913,6282],"class_list":["post-32952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-accenture","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-blockchain","tag-cloud","tag-extended-reality","tag-high-tech","tag-internet-of-things","tag-the-accenture-technology-campus-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}