Typhoon Matmo swept across northern Vietnam, leaving behind long, cold, wet nights.
The rain seemed to engulf the entire town, and the wind was so strong it looked like it could sweep everything away.
Online, pleas for help are densely packed with overlapping and disjointed addresses, phone numbers, coordinates, and other details.
Who should be saved first, and how should they be saved?
In the midst of information chaos and despair, all people can do is wait.
That question haunted Nguyen Thi Mai Anh, a former student ofFPT University Hanoi, currently an AI Product Manager in charge of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data applications for a technology company. Instead of just following the news, she and her friend Tat Huan chose to use their technological strengths to contribute to saving lives.
On the night of October 7th, they began building the thongtincuuho.org platform , a digital system for collecting, compiling, and locating distress calls, then automatically forwarding the information to the nearest rescue team.
Servers are constantly being upgraded, filters are being refined, and AI is being integrated to eliminate data duplication.
And every line of code typed out was a glimmer of hope being sent out. And in just a few hours, the platform became a "living map" in the eye of the storm, helping rescue forces quickly identify hundreds of flooded areas, saving precious minutes in reaching people.
No superheroes, no capes.
They were just two young people who believed that technology could not only be used to make a living, but also to save their communities.
Amidst the raging currents, they transformed data into action, turning lines of code into acts of kindness.
PV
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