AnYare was developed as a
solution to geographically-challenged teams. It addresses the lack of
communication among organisations with workers in the field. AnYare is the
brainchild of young developers Marte Soliza and Beato Bongco.
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| The three sets of winners: AnYare, Coneed, and Meet Plus |
According to Bongco, the
app allows registered users to create teams. Everyone in the team will receive
a call at a pre-determined time. They can record the answer, and a designated
administrator can retrieve the response by calling the app and downloading
information through a web interface. This means that team leaders of
organisations can retrieve reports from their members of the field anytime and
anywhere, as long as there is a cell phone signal.
Soliza
and Bongco emerged first among 12 teams, winning USD 1,000 and an all-expense
paid trip for one to Istanbul for the two-day TADHack Summit in November. In
addition, two other promising teams were given awards --Meet Plus and CoNeeds
with P40,000 and 3,000 API credits each which they can use to further develop
their applications.
MeetPlus
provides enterprise synchronization via SMS.
It allows automatic meeting notifications to be sent to participants
using text messaging as well as gives the latter a chance to respond with a
simple “go” or “no go”. On the other hand, CoNeeds aims to bridge the gap
between subject matter experts and the people that are looking for them through
online calls using the web platform.
The
three apps used different Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) of Globe
Labs which allow the building of powerful applications for Voice, Short
Messaging Service, Charging, and Location-based Service.
TADHack,
a global meeting place for developers, was held simultaneously in six different
cities: Manila, Philippines; Madrid,
Spain; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;
Chicago, USA; Pune,
India; and Colombo, Sri Lanka and was live-streamed to enable teams to
compete remotely.
