Hackathon in collaboration with Facebook & RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution
"Be a lifesaver"
The hackathon was a collaboration between Facebook,
Ladies That UX London and GeekGirl UK.
Ladies That UX London and GeekGirl UK.
Facebook partnered with the RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution to help with their efforts to create digital products to help them save more lives.
THE CHALLENGE
Water is part of life. Drowning shouldn’t be.
WHY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM?
The RNLI are committed to a 50% reduction in drowning deaths in UK and RoI by 2024. The RNLI is also committed to making an impact on the global drowning epidemic (currently 360,000 lives are lost each year - WHO 2015 figures), this is more than from maternal mortality or protein-energy malnutrition.
Rescue alone isn’t going to do it. That’s the last resort. We need to invest effort in drowning prevention – improving water safety awareness and understanding through education, skills development and understanding of the scale of the issue (at home and abroad) through influence, supervision, education and working in partnership with others.
WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM WE TRIED TO HACK?
How might we empower local communities to reduce drowning while…
- Supporting local economies? (social resilience, incomes, livelihoods )
- Helping people enjoy waterside locations?
- Participating in day-to-day life activities involving water, such as collecting drinking water, caring for children in & around the home or even walking by the canal to the shop?
WHO WE WERE TRYING TO SOLVE IT FOR?
400 people every year die from drowning in the UK and Republic of Ireland. That’s more people than die in cycling incidents.. This increases to 600 if you include non-accidental and inland deaths. Around half of these people die even before the emergency services have been notified.
TEAM - FW16 (Future Women 16)
Pleased to be part of a ladies team and happy for receiving a mention for our chatbox product for the data gathering for RNLI! We tried to create a tool to help volunteers in local communities abroad. A chatbot tool that empowers 'Future Leaders' and volunteers to collect data in local communities.
