Imagine Cup Design Competion
Team Eric Tsai and Brian Quan, Students SIAT, SFU
Mentor Vicki Moulder, SIAT, SFU
This year's theme is "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today." The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today in its Millennium Goals. This year the Imagine Cup uses these ambitious challenges as a guiding light to inspire change all over the world, read more about the competition >
M.A.P.S. Malaria and HIV/AIDS Prevention Strategy, 2009
M.A.P.S. is a prevention strategy to combat the spread of Malaria and HIV/AIDS, the sixth United Nation’s Millennium Goal. Our team is responding to Southern Africa’s AIDS epidemic, as a means to look at the larger social design issues of disease prevention.
Our video submission for Round 2, of the Imagine Cup Design competition introduces the design problem; communicates the design solution; and explores the immediate benefits and long-term prevention goals of our strategy.
Our goal is to incorporate a plan that will educate people about disease prevention and strengthen the existing infrastructures in Southern Africa. Our team’s proposal combines existing HIV/AIDS and Malaria tests designed by medical profession and already existing disease prevention information into one package that utilizes existing social networks.
We need to act collaboratively now! Researchers claim that Southern Africa has more people living with HIV/AIDS than any other country. Unless significant action is taken immediately, experts agree that by 2010 there will be 100 million people living with HIV/AIDS around the world. More than 40 million children will become orphaned by the disease. Our team wants to harness the power of design for greater good – and improve life. We have considered our design solution and believe that the ripple effect would create a collaborative framework for the people already producing Malaria and HIV/AIDS tests, the distributors of prevention information and the people living in Southern Africa.
References
M.A.P.S. is a prevention strategy to combat the spread of Malaria and HIV/AIDS, the sixth United Nation’s Millennium Goal. Our team is responding to Southern Africa’s AIDS epidemic, as a means to look at the larger social design issues of disease prevention.
Our video submission for Round 2, of the Imagine Cup Design competition introduces the design problem; communicates the design solution; and explores the immediate benefits and long-term prevention goals of our strategy.
Our goal is to incorporate a plan that will educate people about disease prevention and strengthen the existing infrastructures in Southern Africa. Our team’s proposal combines existing HIV/AIDS and Malaria tests designed by medical profession and already existing disease prevention information into one package that utilizes existing social networks.
We need to act collaboratively now! Researchers claim that Southern Africa has more people living with HIV/AIDS than any other country. Unless significant action is taken immediately, experts agree that by 2010 there will be 100 million people living with HIV/AIDS around the world. More than 40 million children will become orphaned by the disease. Our team wants to harness the power of design for greater good – and improve life. We have considered our design solution and believe that the ripple effect would create a collaborative framework for the people already producing Malaria and HIV/AIDS tests, the distributors of prevention information and the people living in Southern Africa.
References
- 1) Thembi AIDS Diary, A Year in the Life of a South African Teenager http://www.radiodiaries.org/aidsdiary/story.html
- 2) Artists for a new south Africa http://www.ansafrica.org
- 3) United Nations, Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/aids.shtml