Imagine Cup 2006 final sessions are taking part in India, Somasegar says in this post. Presented projects aim to enable us lead healthier lives. I’m particularly interested in the software design category of the competition, and I just discovered the Italian team: Even .ctor .

The cool thing about them (and other teams too) is the diversity of their technical background, which is – no great news though – by far the best key to look at a problem from different perspectives.

They describe their project, Hello World, as follows:

Hello World was created to improve the relationship between medic and patient, supplying the doctor with important information often left out by the patient, whether because he is not able to report them or he doesn’t consider them significant.

However, a lot of interesting projects are out there; I loved particularly the Indian team’s one, SONIQUE, aiming to help blind people using technology “like never before”, and the team from the Netherlands too; these guys are presenting “Health Desk”, an AI-based system exploiting natural language processing to separate serious requests from lesser ones, and reducing general pratictioners’ load.

These are anyway just a small fraction of all presented projects, some of them are actually brilliant. Good luck guys.

[FOLLOW-UP: Italian team wins first prize @ Imagine Cup 2006]