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UNILAG students develop human trafficking tracker software


UNILAG students develop human trafficking tracker software

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L-R Eyitayo Ogunbiyi, Chukwudumebi Onwuli and David Popoola

UNILAG students create human dealing tracker programmin 
Three students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) have apparently built up some product that can track and uncover human dealers just as salvage and restore unfortunate casualties. 

The three students, David Popoola, Eyitayo Ogunbiyi and Chukwudumebi Onwuli are said to be students of System Engineering and Computer Engineering Departments. 

The Outreach and Communication Officer, United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), Mr Sylvester Atere made this known on Wednesday, March 27, 2019 in Abuja. 

the students built up the product following 29 hours coding long distance race, which they developed victors of the #Hackathon4Justice occasion sorted out in Lagos somewhere in the range of 22nd and 23rd March, 2019. 

The coding rivalry was sorted out by UNODC in organization with Facebook and Africa TeenGeeks. 

Atere was cited to have said that the coding long distance race was a piece of UNODC's Education for Justice (E4J) activity, a part of the Global Program for execution of the Doha Declaration, including that the occasion was intended to start imagination in youngsters while pushing their coding abilities. 

"The trio of David Popoola, Eyitayo Ogunbiyi and Chukwudumebi Onwuli of System Engineering and Computer Engineering bureaus of the University of Lagos stood out of up and coming experts. 

"With their web application plan that helps both dealt exploited people and their friends and family find out about human dealing and access to devices that can conceivably spare them. 

"Labeled 'How about we Fight Trafficking' or 'LFT' for short, the key highlights of the item incorporate an e-picking up arranging stage to help instruct individuals on human dealing; a facial acknowledgment framework that matches feed from webcams. 

"Different pictures to check whether there as of now exists a revealed case with a comparative picture in the database; a gateway for unfortunate casualty's dear companions to document reports about dealing cases in their general vicinity. 

"A warmth map, created from report information to tell clients where dealing is most pervasive and take preventive measures," he said. 

Champs of the challenge as indicated by Atere will continue to Global #Hackathon4Justice occasion, to be held at the Google Headquarters in Silicon Valley, California, United States, in August 2019.













 

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