SINGAPORE (Nov 16): A team from Singapore has emerged global winner of the first digitally-connected hackathon by Accenture.
“Wombat” developed a prototype for an early warning system to detect and prevent outbreaks of Dengue Fever and other vector-borne diseases.
Named “Dragonfly”, the system attracts arthropods such as mosquitoes and identifies their species. As part of their presentation at the hackathon, the team created a model of a flytrap that uses blue light to attract mosquitoes... (Click here to read the full story.)