Institut Teknologi Bandung

BANDUNG, itb.ac.id - Tim Antarmuka ITB has grabbed first place on Special Award, the Unlimited Potential, Rural Innovation Award Imagine Cup 2009 at Paris, France. Therefore, they had right for US$ 10.000 cash reward as well as a four month internship opportunity at Microsoft Research Bangalore, India, directly under supervision of Mr Kentaro Toyama. Tim Antarmuka succeeds tackling down delegate from Columbia, Egypt, India, and South Africa. Tim Antarmuka, Imagine Cup Indonesia 2008 winner, consists of three STEI students and one FSRD students. STEI students were Arief Widhiyasa, software design and programmer; Dimas Yusuf, mathematicians, and Ella Mustika, environment observer. Meanwhile Erga Ghaniya, Visual Design student, is expert on game computing and multimedia. Tuesday (8/7), Tim Antarmuka presented their project, called Butterfly, in front of Rural Innovation Award judge council. The judges were Paul Polak, founder of International Development Enterprises; Edward Grager–Happ, Chief Information Officer Save the Children; Kentaro Toyama, Assistant Managing Director Microsoft Research India; and Netika Raval, founder of Global Social Equity Butterfly is an integrated system for reporting, documentation, and publication of environmental problems. Butterfly can receive a report from public through sms, phone calls, Butterfly website, and Butterfly mobile application. After Butterfly receives a report, it will classify the problem according to the category and priority through report keyword analysis. Therefore, a report would have a priority value and category, which determine where it would be sent. After that, the report would be forwarded to the proper authority that can handle the problem. The authority has to decide what to do with the report, whether it would be processed, postponed, or ignored. Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group, took steps bestowed the prize. Imagine cup 2009, which will be held in Egypt, is themed "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today”.