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PARIS, KOMPAS – The Antarmuka Team of the Bandung Institute of Technology (Institut Teknologi Bandung: ITB) has been selected by a team of four judges as the winner of the Imagine Cup 2008 in the Rural Innovation Award category for its Butterfly Software System. The presentation of awards to winners was done in front of an audience of thousands at the Louvre in Paris, France (July 8). Corporate Vice President Unlimited Potential Anoop Gupta’s announcement that the ITB Antarmuka Team had defeated four other finalists from Columbia, Egypt, India and South Africa to win in the Rural Innovation Award was greeted with thunderous applause.; "Click to see real size") The four Antarmuka Team members, all dressed in batik, ran excitedly to the stage when they heard their names announced as winners, while the applause and cheers from the students from all over the world attending the event echoed around them. ”We are delighted to have won the Imagine Cup and make history for Indonesia. We hope that our software system will benefit many nations, not just Indonesia,” Arief Widhiyasa, the head of the ITB Antarmuka Butterfly Development Team. This team made up of three students from the Department of Electronic and Information Technology Engineering at ITB and one student from the Department of Fine Art and Design at ITB: Arief Widhiyasa, Ella Madanella, Dimas Yusuf Danurwenda, and Erga Ghaniya. They were supervised by Dwi Hendratmo Widyantoro, a professor at STEI ITB. The judges for the Rural Innovation Award competition were Paul Polak, the founder of International Development Enterprises; Edward Grager-Happ, the Chief Information Officer of Save the Children; Kentaro Toyama, the Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India; and Netika Raval, the founder of Global Social Equity. Imagine Cup 2008 was participated in by more than 200,000 students from more than 100 countries. The final involved 370 students from 61 countries who were competing for prizes totaling USD 240,000. The Butterfly is a reportage system that enables its users to immediately access all reports on environmental issues through mobile and web applications. This facilitates connection between the public and the authorities. ”In order to keep access inexpensive, this means there must be a cooperative effort between the telecommunication providers and the government,” Ella explained. ”We are proud that Indonesia is becoming more recognized internationally through the winning of this award. Hopefully this will motivate other students in Indonesia,” Arif said, when he heard that the ITB Antarmuka Team had won the prize of USD 10,000 and the opportunity to join the researchers at the Microsoft Research Center in Bangalore, India, to develop their system for distribution worldwide. *NOTE: Dimas Yusuf Danurwenda is one of Sampoerna Foundation’s Scholars, 2005 Intake |
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