The T-Solutions team, made up of students from the Faculty of Systems, Telecommunications and Electronics UEES were the first place winners of Hult-Prize on Campus, The finalist was T-Solutions, where 16 teams participated, 7 of which qualified for the finals. This team proposed a solution to the problem of unemployment through the creation of a technological platform for job search by geolocation.
The platform consists of 3 phases:
- Integrates people with no formal education but with knowledge of a specific task.
- It integrates people of academic level, so that a user can find by geolocation the lawyer, accountant or professional driver closest to his office or residence.
- It integrates young people with no formal education and no technical knowledge of a specific job in an internship system.
Hult Prize is a non-profit foundation that seeks to solve a problem of global interest through a self-sustainable business model. This year the challenge is a business idea that will create at least 10 thousand jobs in 10 years and as a main clause, that the jobs are focused on people with low educational levels and insert them into the labor market. Latin America has around 25 million unemployed people. In Ecuador, 25% of young people between 18 and 25 years of age are neither studying nor working.
For this challenge, Hult Prize considers meaningful employment to be employment of at least 10 hours per week.
The T-Solutions team of the University of Espiritu Santo Specialties (UEES) will compete on April 27th and 28th in Tokyo - Japan, with 50 other universities worldwide such as: Zewail City University of Science and Technology of Egypt, University of Technology of Sydney, University of Guadalajara of Mexico, Indian Institutes of Technology of Kharagpur-India, among others.
The winning team will receive $1 million to implement the project.
