Monday 20 January 2014

Sky News UK


Sky News UK have been running this story today regarding SLSWA using twitter to inform the public of tagged shirks.

Problems: A lot of non locals and tourists will not know the area's that are given on twitter & unless you look at SLSWA on Twitter you will not see the alert.

iKoast solves these problems by showing the shark pin as an accurate pin on the map & by sending a push notification direct to all users regarding the alert. We will also notify users of any NON Tagged Sharks that are sighted by the public.

Reduce Your Risk

In a recent assessment of 546 Australian print media articles that contained injury as a key word (which includes shark attacks), only 20% of reports discuss possible preventive measures.

Public attitudes and understanding of issues are influenced by media coverage, and so the media should be taking a more proactive approach to protect people from harm by offering advice instead of just reporting the incident.

Research article: http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=HE12911
How to stop shark attacks: http://tinyurl.com/nybrhpc

Thanks for applying for the Intensify Scholarship

Great news this week! We entered a competition for a 3 month scholarship for mentoring and manged to get to the finals!

Hi Paul,
Thanks for applying for the Intensify Scholarship. After reviewing the applications we are pleased to let you know that's you've been selected to pitch your project to the judges on Tuesday the 26th of November at 13:45pm at Spacecubed 45. If you could please confirm that you can make it that time, that would be great. We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday the 26th.