Question: Team Members Full Names:
Answer: Lim Kian Long Marilyn Lim Chien Hui Steven Lim Jun Liang

Question: Title of Project:
Answer: GreenEve2Peace

Question: Project Overview:
Answer: Rice is the staple food in South East of Asia. To ensure the steady supply of rice, we need to help farmers by taking into consideration the multiple factors that affect crop production. Muda Agricultural Development Authority(MADA) is a government agency in Malaysia who is responsible in improving the socio-economic well being of large portion of the rural population and increasing the rice yield for national requirements. Currently, most of the tasks being carried out by MADA are done manually through letter, poster and portable speaker. Through the use of technology, GreenEve2Peace assist MADA in helping the farmer community in Malaysia to solve their problems that will affect their farming activities. We utilize the simple text messaging services on cell phone, which is low cost and easily accessible to the farmers.

Question: Technology/Software Used:
Answer: • OS: Windows XP/ Windows Vista, IDE: Visual Studio 2008 • SQL Server 2008 • Window Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technology • Silverlight 2.0 Technology • Simple Mobile Phone as GSM Modem

Question: Inspiration: What inspired your team to enter the Microsoft Imagine Cup and why did you choose the Design for Development Award competition?
Answer: We first heard about Imagine Cup Software Design competition from our course mates, who were one of the Software Design worldwide finalists in 2008. Their valuable experience gained during this competition was inspiring. For that reason we tailored our final year project to be inline with this year Imagine Cup’s theme. In addition, our mentor encouraged us to participate in Malaysia’s Imagine Cup 2009. We hope to share, gain experiences and broaden our knowledge by participating in Imagine Cup competition.

Question: Team History: How did your team meet?
Answer: Our team is known as the Capricorn team and we are students from the School of Computer Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia.

Question: Inspiration: How did your team come up with your submission? Include which Millennium Development Goal inspired your solution.
Answer: Decision making has always been a major headache for farmers, especially during the process of paddy seeding, fertilizing or harvesting seasons due to unpredictable weather. Farmers are confused with the weather forecast information from television, radio, and newspaper. Most of the times the information reached the farmers quite late which will greatly affects their farming activities. GreenEve2Peace is collaborating with MADA in helping the farmer community to make the right decision by providing them the correct and up to date broadcast weather information and recommend time table of farming activities. We hope to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goal: 1. Goal #1- Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty 2. Goal #7- Ensure environmental sustainability

Question: Challenges: What personal or technological challenges did your team face while developing your submission?
Answer: We face challenges in understanding paddy planting process from MADA and farmer community in Malaysia. We have to conduct interviews to understand their problems faced during farming activities. We need to consider the cost of the technologies used to deploy our solution so that it is affordable to the farmers.

Question: Future Plans: What does your team plan on doing after the Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt? Do you plan to use your project to launch a new business?
Answer: We wish to obtain a grant from government to implement our solution within six months time. We will be working closely with MADA to implement the system stage by stage. In addition, we will also be extending our solution to include other agriculture sectors like livestock (chicken, duck and pig) and fishery. We would like to extend it to our neighboring countries once we have successfully implemented the system in Malaysia. For that reason, we are looking forward to launch this project in Malaysia to see if our solution is able to help the farmer’s communities increase their life style.

Question: Links to more information (i.e. website, blog):
Answer: http://team-capricorn.blogspot.com/ http://www.cs.usm.my/announcements/Imagine_09.php