The UCLM obtains the first place in the HackForGood of Telefónica
The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has been proclaimed the winner of HackForGood, the competition organized by Telefónica for the development of innovative technological solutions for a hundred social challenges. The proposals of the team representing the Laboratory of the UCLM-Telefónica Chair at the Cuenca Institute of Technology, Construction and Telecommunications have prevailed over those put forward during the contest by more than a thousand young people from 24 universities.
The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) has obtained first place in the HackForGood competition, the marathon for the development of technological applications that seek to contribute to creating a better world and which is promoted by the Telefónica Chairs Network. The academic institution has achieved this result with one of the three teams with which it has attended, that of the Laboratory of the UCLM-Telefónica Chair at the Institute of Technology, Construction and Telecommunications of Cuenca, directed by Jorge Mateo, and which participated in the contest held between October 20 and 22 with more than a thousand young people from twenty-four Spanish universities. The representation of the UCLM also included teams from the Higher School of Informatics of the Campus in Ciudad Real and the Faculty of Social Sciences of Talavera de la Reina.
This is the fifth time that UCLM has joined HackForGood, and it has done so with a total of 58 students through the UCLM-Telefónica chair 'Advanced interaction systems for digital education' directed by Professor Miguel Ángel Redondo . It is not the first time that the University of Castilla-La Mancha has obtained a prominent position in this competition: already in the first edition, students from the Ciudad Real Higher School of Informatics won a national prize; and in 2019, the evolution of one of the projects, led by the student Diego Sepúlveda, won the Fake News challenge award from the Connected Open Innovation area of the Telefónica Group, continuing his training with a scholarship linked to Eleven Paths, the division of Telefónica computer security, known as 'crazy ideas laboratory' inside the house.
