Application challenge

App fab: (First and second from left) Jeremy, Weng Onn and (first from right) Choy Cheng Yuan, with Ler at the ceremony.

THE A-Team from KBU International College (KBU) recently emerged as winners of The IBM BluemixTM Appnovator Challenge 2014, beating four teams in the finals in Kuala Lumpur.

The A-Team, comprising Jeremy Loke Keng Mun, Kua Weng Onn and Choy Cheng Yuan from KBU International College, presented the “MyCity” application that allows citizens to report infrastructure issues such pipe leakages, potholes, malfunctioning traffic lights and street lights, and even flash floods to the relevant authorities and departments, via their smart phones.