Our goal: Positively impact 1 billion people by 2025
1 billion?! That's a pretty big number to shoot for, but it's something Cisco dedicated to in 2016. And, by the finish of fiscal year 2018, we’ve already had an effect on the cumulative 445 million people worldwide.
“At our core, we will always be about solving problems, connecting people, and pursuing positive outcomes,” Tae Yoo, Senior V . P ., Corporate Matters and CSR, Cisco. Helping people and taking advantage of technology to enhance people’s lives is part of our DNA. It’s who we're.
Global Problem Solver Challenge
Included in our work, we aim to inspire and empower an era of worldwide problem solvers who won't survive - but drive and thrive - within our more and more digital economy. Using the Internet of products (IoT) and digital technologies connecting more devices and knowledge than in the past, plans now be capable of really make a difference more rapidly than in the past. And we’re here to assist.
Our third annual Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge aims to acknowledge start up business ideas that leverage technology for social impact from student entrepreneurs all over the world. The Task is available to students and up to date alumni from the college or college.
To become qualified, solutions have to incorporate IoT or any other digital technologies. Additionally they require a social, ecological or economic impact (e.g. health, education, ease of access, critical human needs (food, water, disaster response/recovery, safety, etc.).
In the end the submissions were reviewed, $300,000 USD in prize money was spread to assist accelerate the adoption of breakthrough technology, products, and services that drive social, ecological or economic impact.
2019 healthcare winners
From the 10 winning organizations, three directly concentrate on improving health outcomes. Browse the 2019 healthcare winners:
Calla Imaging (second runner up, $25,000)
Cervical cancer affects the lives over 500,000 women yearly, with more than 80% in low-and middle-earnings countries, and 50% of those women die. It's because too little affordable, accessible, and accurate screening. Our vision would be to democratize screening through 1) imaging technology that community health providers or women themselves may use for screening 2) automated algorithms for accurate diagnosis with no expert and three) mHealth application for patient data storage and communication for follow-up.
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