Inlisol remote wellbeing and safety monitoring

Challenge:  What kind of technologies increase the safety of the homecare clients?
Inlisol remote wellbeing and safety monitoring for homecare services

Palko Interactive Oy aims at improving and securing the living conditions of home care clients by enabling them to live independently and safely in their homes.  One way to achieve this goal is through the use of technology, such as alert systems. These alarms can detect if the person has left the house, stayed in bed for an extended period or if there are drastic changes in health vitals. Furthermore, automated alerts can help prevent additional injuries and symptoms, especially for individuals who are unable to call for help themselves. Preventative vital data can provide valuable information to home care nurses, allowing them to detect early-stage indications of potential health issues and incidents. This data enables them to react in advance and prevent further health complications. In Helsinki pilot home care unit pilots service that automates tasks, measurements, and work that is not necessary to be done by humans, but which can significantly reduce the pressure on overloaded and stressed home care personnel.  The solution provides a wide range of monitoring alerts, preventative notifications and indicators, and general wellbeing data through an AI and radio wave technology-based solution. All monitoring is done fully anonymously to respect the monitored person’s privacy.

Inclusiverse

Challenge: How the disabled can improve their skills by using virtual technologies?
InclusiVerse

InclusiVerse is a VR-based application from CTRL Reality for Meta Quest headsets that aims to enhance the social and digital skills of adults and young adults with developmental disabilities. The application provides a safe and motivating virtual environment that allows users to engage in social interactions, develop digital skills, and practise daily routines and new situations. The application includes both real time collaboration and pre-recorded situations, as well as engaging environments that have been specifically designed to facilitate communication and socialisation among disabled individuals. The application is based on in-house XR content development platform that is easy to use and allows for the creation of customisable environments to suit the specific needs of each target group. The ultimate goal is to prevent marginalisation and promote the inclusion of disabled individuals in society, with expected impacts including improved social and digital skills, increased confidence, and a greater sense of community and belonging. 

CoTown Kasmoni Community Exchange

Challenge: How to involve residents in a community savings supporting social initiatives?

CoTown BV – CoTown Kasmoni Community Exchange: Empowering Amsterdam’s Shared Prosperity

The CoTown Kasmoni Community Exchange App, is an initiative aimed at empowering Amsterdam’s neighbourhoods through shared prosperity and community investment. In collaboration with CoTown, this innovative platform revolutionizes local economies by integrating CoTown’s digital currency system, enabling users to create a local fund. Residents and entrepreneurs will be able to exchange euros for Kasmoni or earn Kasmoni by engaging in neighbourhood work. Kasmoni, earned or exchanged, fuels local payments and investments between entrepreneurs, driving economic growth and shared ownership. By fostering shared ownership, supporting community initiatives, and promoting economic growth, the app seeks to reduce inequalities and shape a more inclusive, prosperous future for Amsterdam.

Project Phonetic

Challenge: Amsterdam: How to include the deaf and hearing impaired in broadcasting info on public transport?

Project Phonetic

Project Phonetic is an app that runs on mobile devices using AI to translate spoken messages into chat messages. Public service announcements are sometimes difficult to understand in public transportation, especially for individuals who are deaf or have impaired hearing. The Phonetic app allows users to read urgent messages at station and in transport instead of hearing them. Users will also receive the messages in their language in their favourite chat app.

One2One.Run

Challenge: How to encourage girls to take part in sports and exercise?

One2One.Run – One2One.Run or WIRL

One2One.Run places all sports activities in one place. This platform facilitates outdoor and indoor activity events, allowing users, local facilities, communities, and businesses to easily create and promote events. An AI tool assists in event creation, and features like event promotion, customization, tracking, and education to encourage participation. The platform’s goals include increasing girls’ participation, fostering community connections, and promoting healthier lifestyles, with a strong focus on local engagement and collaboration

T-APPS B.V. – Skendy: an assistant for your documents

Challenge: How to adapt an existing technological solution for a specific group?

T-APPS B.V. – Skendy: an assistant for your documents

Skendy is an AI-driven solution designed to overcome administrative challenges commonly faced by expats. The application simplifies bureaucratic processes in the Netherlands by translating, organising, and setting reminders for important documents ranging from governmental letters to service bills. Expansion plans include contextual prompts for scanned documents, a feedback/support feature for cultural context, and embedded currency conversion. User satisfaction will be tested by a pilot program run in conjunction with Wijnen Consultancy. Skendy also supports the Green Deal Initiative by encouraging document digitisation and recycling, contributing towards a sustainable and circular economy. Furthermore, our plan extends globally, with intentions to replicate our efforts in expat-dense cities worldwide, starting with Berlin.

Video avatar translation widget (XS2 Content)

Challenge: AI-generated video making healthcare information more accessible
Video avatar translation widget

The Municipality of Amsterdam seeks solutions to help enhance citizens’ understanding of the Dutch National Immunisation Programme and improve overall health outcomes, particularly among those with low literacy skills and those from diverse backgrounds. XS2Content (XS2AUDIO BV) will address this need through the application Video avatar translation widget.

Target Groups:
•People who speak a different language
• Low-literacy individuals
• People with low family care
• Parents and young people with a Moroccan or Turkish background

Objectives:
• Reach hard-to-reach target groups through the use of video content in addition to text
• Reduce video-creation time by leveraging AI technology
• Convert existing text into spoken videos with real-life, lip synced avatars in multiple languages
• Make healthcare information more accessible by converting written content into video format
• Ensure easy accessibility by sharing videos on social media and web-widgetsany

Audio-to-audio translation for status holders

Challenge: How to let non-Dutch speakers communicate in their own language?
Audio-to-audio translation for status holders, in real-time, powered by AI

Status holders are required to go through a participation and immigration process (PIP) at the municipality of Amsterdam. However, employees at the municipality (klantmanagers) and status holders often don’t speak the same language. Klantmanagers speak mostly Dutch, and status holders often Arabic or Tigrinya. Translators are not always available or viable. They are expensive, take time to organize, are not always available in the short term, and sometimes make errors. Meanwhile, most status holders speak languages that have an oral tradition; hence verbal communication is preferred. There are barriers to communication between klantmanagers and status holders.

Objective: Better communication would improve the experience throughout the process for both. To achieve this, Switch AI develops speech technology that does audio-to-audio translation, in real-time! A solution built using the power of state-of-the-art AI technology.

Solution: Switch will build a software service that leverages speech recognition, translation and personalized speech generation AI models. The service will aid klantmanagers and status holders to communicate in their own languages. This service can be integrated with various applications developed by Gemeente Amsterdam, such as the PIP app.

Empowering low-literate citizens with AI (Tolkie)

Challenge: Wildcard – Propose any technological solution for any marginalised community
Empowering low literate citizens of Amsterdam with the help of A.I.

Amsterdam has 33.3% more low-literate citizens than average for the Netherlands. Tolkie has developed a tool that helps low-literate users to overcome obstacles in a complex text. Organizations embed our tool into their website and by doing so they enhance the accessibility of their online platform. Our current solution is developed together with low-literate people. In an iterative process of acquiring user needs, designing and developing a solution, testing with the target audience, adjusting the design, etc. we developed the tool we have now. Our tool currently operates on a per-word basis, meaning that the target audience gets reading aid when they encounter difficult words. However, complexity of a text lies not only in difficult words, but also in complex sentence structures, the use of jargon and proverbial language, the structure of longer texts, etc. During this challenge we are going to extend our reading aid and we want to achieve that with the use of AI and other modern technologies.

WeSolve, driving change with inclusion

Challenge: How to offer opportunities for youngsters having had contact with the law?
WeSolve, driving change with inclusion

The platform built by WeSolve ApS represents a powerful opportunity for the city to showcase its activities and engage with young people, particularly those born in disadvantaged conditions. By using technology to create an active and accessible platform, the city can make youth engagement smoother and more effective. Target groups: Through the WeSolve platform, young people can participate in a wide range of activities that foster social cohesion, build trust, and create meaningful connections with others. These activities are aimed at developing skills, supporting communities, and building a brighter future for everyone involved with a particular attention to disadvantaged youth. Objectives: WeSolve can be used as a powerful tool by municipalities to enhance the level of disadvantaged youth engagement in order to create a safer, more connected, and more engaged community. By empowering young people through community-based initiatives and promoting social cohesion, WeSolve platform results as the means through which municipalities can reduce the likelihood of criminal activity and create a brighter future for young people born in disadvantaged conditions.