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FSKTM Students Win DBKL National Hackathon 2022

 

 

By : Hoh Jia Da, Heon Hi Teng, Hafeez Osman

 

 

 

KUALA LUMPUR, March - Zappy team comprised of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) students, Hoh Jia Da and Heon Hi Teng was declared as the winner at DBKL National Hackathon competition organized by Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL), a city council that administers the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. The DBKL Hackathon 2022 was organized in a hybrid format from the DBKL office, Kuala Lumpur due to the current situation which was heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. UPM students, Hoh Jia Da and Heon Hi Teng has emerged as Champion of the competition and bring home RM8,000.00 cash prize, along with trophies and certificates.

DBKL ICT Hackathon was an event where developers, government employees, designers, journalists, data scientists, non–profit organisation employees, and residents who care about their communities came together leveraging their skills to help their community by building solutions to improving DBKL’s services. Deputy Minister of Federal Territories, Datuk Seri Jalaluddin Alias said, all the proposed solutions submitted will be taken into consideration for DBKL to implement. “DBKL needed to be dynamic and productive in managing its municipality issues by empowering its delivery services, especially those which are digital technology-based”, he said. The hackathon has witnessed the enthusiastic participation of participants from all over Malaysia comprising the Peninsula (Penang, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Putrajaya, Melaka, Johor, Pahang, Kelantan, Terengganu) Sabah and Sarawak.

 

 

 

The theme of the Hackathon was on Smart City, Green Technology, and Revolution. Team Zappy proposed a solution on Zappy which is a public transportation data provider that provides travellers with peace of mind by providing information via a mobile application. The analytics platform can also be used by transit operators to depict data-driven mobility insights, which can be used to alleviate significant yearly financial losses caused by traffic congestion in key cities across highly urbanised Asia.

Zappy strives to improve the urban transit experience with their app by combining expertise in data science and domain knowledge in public transport. It has three main features such as a journey planner that is linked to a driver app, real-time communication between city councils, bus operators, and riders, and a reward system for transport users.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date of Input: 23/03/2022 | Updated: 23/03/2022 | akmalhafiz

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