By LUCIKY MAE F. QUILAO
Published July 30, 2021 11:41am Two Philippine teams have been selected as global finalists for the all-virtual, Earth Observation (EO) Dashboard Hackathon held last June 23 to 29. The event was conducted by the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) featuring 233 projects of the participating 132 countries and territories. I am really overwhelmed and excited because we didn t expect that our work would be selected as finalists, shared Michael Lance M. Domagas, who is among those who researched for the Mobility over Air Quality Index (MAQI), in an interview via email on July 29.
Global finalists of the Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon. World MAQI: Dominic Vincent “Doc” Ligot, Michael Lance M. Domagas, Arturo Art Caronongan III, and Mark Neil Pascual. GiveSight: Karl Adrian de Guzman, Angelica Mhay Salazar, Joshua Bungcaras, Mark Barretto, and Gabriel Kristopher Cricket Soong.
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Two teams from the Philippines, GiveSight and World MAQI, are selected by the United States space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), European Space Agency (ESA), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as global finalists for the all-virtual, Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon held last June 23-29. With 4,300+ participants from 132 countries and territories, the week-long event featured 233 projects to solve challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the Earth Observing (EO) Dashboard, an interactive data resource giving policymakers and the public a unique tool to probe the impacts of pandemic-related restriction